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All are required to have an interest in this work. Those who use
tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost
into the treasury of the Lord. Some have never made any sacrifice for
the cause of God, and are asleep as to what God requires of them. Some
of the very poorest will have the greatest struggle to deny themselves
of these stimulants. This individual sacrifice is not required because
the cause of God is suffering for means. But every heart will be tested
and its character developed. It is principle that God’s people must act
upon. The living principle must be carried out in the life.
“Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein
have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings; ye are cursed with a
curse, for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the
tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and
prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you
the windows of Heaven and pour you out a blessing that there shall
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not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for
your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground, neither
shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord
of hosts.” I saw that this scripture has been misapplied to speaking
and praying in meeting. The prophecy has a special application to the
last days, and teaches God’s people their duty to bring a proportion of
their substance as a freewill offering to the Lord.
Seventh-day Adventists
I was shown in regard to the remnant people of God taking a name.
Two classes were presented before me. One class embraced the great
bodies of professed Christians. They were trampling upon God’s law
and bowing to a Papal institution. They were keeping the first day of
the week as the Sabbath of the Lord.
The other class were but few in number, and were bowing to the
great Law-giver. They were keeping the fourth commandment. The
peculiar and prominent features of their faith were the observance
of the seventh day, and waiting for the appearing of our Lord from
Heaven.
The conflict is between the requirements of God and the require-
ments of the beast. The first day, a Papal institution which directly
contradicts the fourth commandment, is yet to be made a test by the