A Group More Easily Reached—Then there is another class more easily reached. Many of them are more worthy than the wealthiest, for those who are rich have not all obtained their riches by the strictest principles of integrity. There are those who would not sacrifice principle or strict honest to possess any amount of means. This is the class that if the truth were presented to them in wisdom would receive it, and be reliable workers together with God. The laborer through the wisdom given of God will work in such a way as to draw these parties together in Christ Jesus.—Manuscript 66, 1894.
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How Can We Reach Them?—And how can we reach the common people? Christ tried to work with the highest dignitaries of the nation. But they would not receive Him, because He told them the truth. They had exalted ideas of their own piety. They would not be instructed. They thought their work was to instruct others, not to be instructed themselves. But of the poor the Scriptures testify, “The common people heard Him gladly.”Mark 12:37. “Thou, O God, hast prepared of Thy goodness for the poor.”“The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.”(Psalm 68:10)—Manuscript 125, 1897.
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