The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-02-10

ger Oh the Christina hHrming thecali>,
h" loves by speaking of Chris, to {;
needy soul. - Apparently Satan i,
. continually urging the elect to u,r
every other method but the best one,
thus binding them until they cease tc
see the great privilege of winning a
soul for Christ. Had every Christian
experienced the supreme joy of having
lead sOut into the light the world
would have been taken for Christ
years ago. Even now, supposing
there were only 10000, 900 Christians
and each should win only one. DR..
Schautlev says we could still win the
world in seven years. It's a very
small thing a. say word, but as John
b. Cough says of the one loving word
of Joel Stratton that won him. ct
was a small matter to him but is
everything to me. - As a rule sinners
are far more interested in their souls
than they are given credit for being,
and will seldom be offended if ap-
preached Alright.
Since personal effort is the supreme
hopeful mode of eyangelization, and
it is the duty of every one whose sins
are washed away, whether pastor,
Sunday school superintendent, teacher
or scholar, to spread the glad tidings,
all will be interested to study the
qualifications of the personal worker
First he must be a thoroughly con.
verted person, knowing Jesus Christ
as his personal Savior, realizing the
of the new BIRTH" having
one purpose in life, that of living like
the Christ. the consistent life every
day in the week, in whom is the
"clean heart created and the right
spirit renewed in order that he may
"speak that which he knows and testify !.
to that which he has SEEN and heard. |
He must know the real nature of God.
Oh, may it not be that Jesus could say
% one of us present as to NiCOdemuS,
art thou a teacher and knOwest not
heSe thingS?"
The worker must pray the prevail
ng prayer, not only for self but for
he souls Of those he would win, that
le may be lead to the right ones, and
hat the message from above may be
Elective. Jesus still says: II will go
before you into Galilee.' He never
ends one to a soul without going be-
ore and preparing the way in that
ieart.
The worker must know his Bible,
the sword of the spirit" which in
trument God uses to convict of sin:
hould know how to use it to show
zen their need of a savior, to that
esus is the Savior they need, to show
hem how TO find this Jesus, and to
leet the difficulties that hinder that
oul. "Our word of Gods infallible
cripture is worth hundred of ones
wn."
Again the personal worker must
now human nature and human hearts:
lust have the spirit of discernment,
, discern Alright, he must look at the
1ul from the angle of Jesus Christ,
he angle of Glove" Love will help
i'm to approach men. Love, this
aramount grace, the work OF the
oily Spirit gained by intimate, con-
ant companionship with the author
love. Then will we be interested in
hers; be enabled to seek out their
faculties, ways of thinking and
calls in life, their will we have an =
tense desire to win them. The Holy K
pirit will lead us to our Simon or
If Nathaniel.
We have been studying the personal
)rker. The Sunday school teacher, 4
all workers, must ''e a personal II
)rker, Gods idea of a Christian, .
airing likeness to the life which for
arly nineteen hundred years has
en- our pattern. What vast OPP
of usefulness, next to the
me the Sunday school teacher is
we'd by the children.
The teacher must be a personal
,rker or she connot instruct those
mortal souls entrusted into her -
re-many of them, whose entire
ritual training comes from her n
the light of Christ's words: "as my a.
her hath sent me, even so send |
u How can we give to others that
ich we have not ourselves? Any
ne less than this life, and the
cher is practically saying, depart,
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