A Joyous Work to Bring Glad Tidings to Others, November 5

How shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! Romans 10:15.RRe 311.1

It was at the ordination of the twelve that the first step was taken in the organization of the church that after Christ’s departure was to carry on His work on the earth.... Look upon the touching scene. Behold the Majesty of heaven surrounded by the twelve whom He has chosen. He is about to set them apart for their work. By these feeble agencies, through His word and Spirit, He designs to place salvation within the reach of all.RRe 311.2

With gladness and rejoicing, God and the angels beheld this scene. The Father knew that from these men the light of heaven would shine forth; that the words spoken by them as they witnessed for His Son, would echo from generation to generation till the close of time.—The Acts of the Apostles, 18.RRe 311.3

Today the Saviour calls us, as He called Matthew and Job and Peter, to His work. If our hearts are touched by His love, ... we shall rejoice to be co-workers with Christ.... If we make God our strength, we shall have clear perceptions of duty unselfish aspirations; our life will be actuated by a noble purpose ....—The Ministry of Healing, 480.RRe 311.4

All who commune with God will find abundance of work to do for Him. Those who go forth in the spirit of the Master, seeking to reach souls with the truth, will not find the work of drawing souls to Christ a dull, uninteresting drudgery. They are charged with a work as God’s husbandmen, and they will become more and more vitalized as they give themselves to the service of God. It is a joyous work to open the Scriptures to others.—Testimonies 9:118.RRe 311.5