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our meetinghouses, and the treasury is empty. Do not cultivate a taste
for expensive articles of dress or of furniture. Let the work advance as
it began, in simple self-denial and faith.
Use your means to create, rather than your influence to diminish,
agencies for good. Let no one listen to the suggestion that we can
exercise faith and have all our infirmities removed, and that there is
therefore no need of institutions for the recovery of health. Faith and
works are not dissevered. Since the Lord is soon to come, act decidedly
and determinedly to increase the facilities, that a great work may be
done in a short time.
Since the Lord is soon coming, it is time to put out our money
to the exchangers, time to put every dollar we can spare into the
Lord’s treasury, that institutions may be established for the education
of workers, who shall be instructed as were those in the schools of the
prophets. If the Lord comes and finds you doing this work, He will
say: “Well done, thou good and faithful servant: ... enter thou into the
joy of thy Lord.”
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The time has come when no physical, mental, or moral power
is to be wasted or misapplied. The Lord desires that His people in
America shall no longer confine to a few places at home the great
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facilities which concern the moral and spiritual advancement of His
work. Those to whom He has given much are called upon to impart.
Place your means now where it will help in giving light to darkened
nations and to the islands of the sea.
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Work to Be Done. If families would locate in the dark places of the
earth, places where the people are enshrouded in spiritual gloom, and
let the light of Christ’s life shine out through them, a great work might
be accomplished. Let them begin their work in a quiet, unobtrusive
way, not drawing on the funds of the conference until the interest
becomes so extensive that they cannot manage it without ministerial
help.
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