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yet even these should be welcome as a blessing to the sanitarium. But
most of our workers have many and great obligations to meet. At every
turn, when means are needed, they are called upon to do something, to
lead out, that the influence of their example may stimulate others to
liberality and the cause of God be advanced. They feel such an intense
desire to plant the standard in new fields that many even hire money to
help in various enterprises. They have not given grudgingly, but have
felt that it was a privilege to work for the advancement of the truth. By
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thus responding to calls for means, they are often left with very little
surplus.
The Lord has kept an accurate account of their liberality to the
cause. He knows what a good work they have done, a work of which
the younger laborers have no conception. He has been cognizant of
all the privation and self-denial they have endured. He has marked
every circumstance of these cases. It is all written in the books. These
workers are a spectacle before the world, before angels, and before
men, and they are an object lesson to test the sincerity of our religious
principles. The Lord would have our people understand that the pi-
oneers in this work deserve all that our institutions can do for them.
God calls upon us to understand that those who have grown old in His
service deserve our love, our honor, our deepest respect.
A Workers’ Fund
A fund should be raised for such workers as are no longer able to
labor. We cannot be clear before God unless we make every reasonable
effort in this matter, and that without delay. There are some among us
who will not see the necessity of this move, but their opposition should
have no influence with us. Those who purpose in their hearts to be right
and to do right should move steadily forward for the accomplishment
of a good work, a work that God requires to be done. There are many
who are at their ease, who have postponed the work of doing good
with their substance; but shall it be so longer? Shall we love money so
well that we will bury it in the earth?
God calls for the co-operation of all in this enterprise. The affluent
should give of the abundance; but if they give grudgingly, longing
to have every dollar to invest in some worldly enterprise, they will
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receive no reward.