Temporal Blessings to the Benevolent
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“Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life
that now is, and of that which is to come.”
1 Timothy 4:8
.—
Education,
145
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The Heart of the Giver Expanded
The offerings of the poor, given through self-denial to aid in extend-
ing the precious light of saving truth, will not only be a sweet-smelling
savor to God, and wholly acceptable to Him as a consecrated gift, but
the very act of giving expands the heart of the giver, and unites him
more fully to the Redeemer of the world.—
The Review and Herald,
October 31, 1878
.
God’s Standing Promise
Whenever God’s people, in any period of the world, have cheerfully
and willingly carried out His plan in systematic benevolence and
in gifts and offerings, they have realized the standing promise that
prosperity should attend all their labors just in proportion as they
obeyed His requirements. When they acknowledged the claims of
God, and complied with His requirements, honoring Him with their
substance, their barns were filled with plenty.—
Testimonies for the
Church 3:395
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