WHEN I was a child I used to be sent sometimes on messages. My mother, after giving me all her instructions, had a peculiar habit of saying to me at the last moment, “Now, Harry, WHOM are you going to, and what are you going to SAY?” It was my defect as to the last part of the question that she often had to correct in me; I was generally least prepared to answer this part to her satisfaction.
It often comes to me that if brethren, who desire to evangelize, would go through beforehand with God, what I had to go through as my mother’s messenger, they would have people to go to and something to say, and they would leave off and go home, as I used to, when they had said it. We should then have less wearisome discourses, which, alas, sometimes fail to present good news at all.
Then my mother would finish up by saying to me, “And mind you tell them who sent you!”
What do you think of these three points, in my mother’s training, for an evangelist?
1.“To whom are you going?”
2.“What are you going to SAY?”
3.“MIND YOU TELL THEM WHO SENT YOU.”
H. C. A.