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E NTERING INTO G OD ’ S S ABBATH R EST

communion with God which He recognized as being essential to the success of His work. It was Christ’s understanding of these principles which enabled Him to say that if He were lifted up, He would draw all people to Himself. “‘But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself.’ He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.” John 12:32, 33. Obviously, Christ was making a direct reference to when He would be hung, in full view of all spectators, between earth and heaven waiting to die. But that was not all He meant. That physical elevation pointed to wonderful spiritual lessons which He desires every one of us to see and understand. It is when the Saviour is lifted up in the experience and teaching of every true believer, that He will draw all people to Himself. The needy will recognize that He is the channel of life and that without Him, they can certainly do nothing nor be anything. Those whose lives are fully patterned on Christ’s, will be as successful in missionary endeavor as He was. They will not need to devise methods and invent schemes for reaching the perish ing multitudes. As Christ is lifted up in and through the true be liever, people will be drawn to the Saviour. It will not be a ques tion of how to find contacts, but of how to cope with the numbers who come for life and help. It is time to repent deeply of the kind of missionary work which is after the common order of things, and to learn to do it in the Saviour’s way. Then, believers will certainly come with re joicing, bringing precious sheaves with them. If the methods are right, the harvest is guaranteed.

True Missionary Work

How to start? We should begin by finding God’s tremendous assurances that those who work in right lines will not be disap pointed. Such promises as the following need to be studied prayerfully until they become our own. “As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eat