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Counsels on Stewardship
Lord Jesus Christ will heal the church of this terrible disease if she
will be healed. The remedy is found in the fifty-eighth chapter of
Isaiah.—
The Review and Herald, December 10, 1901
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A Serious Matter
It is a serious thing to embezzle the Lord’s goods, to practice rob-
bery toward God; for in so doing the perceptions become perverted
and the heart hardened. How barren is the religious experience, how
clouded is the understanding, of one who loves not God with pure, un-
selfish love, and who fails, therefore, to love his neighbor as himself....
The last great day will reveal to them and to the whole universe
what good might have been done, had they not followed their selfish
inclinations, and thus robbed God in tithes and offerings. They might
have placed their treasure in the bank of heaven, and preserved it in
bags that wax not old; but instead of doing this, they expended it upon
themselves and their children, and seemed to feel afraid that the Lord
would get any of their money or their influence, and thus they met with
eternal loss. Let them contemplate the consequence of withholding
from God. The slothful servant, who puts not out his Lord’s money
to usury, loses an eternal inheritance in the kingdom of glory.—
The
Review and Herald, January 22, 1895
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To defraud God is the greatest crime of which man can be guilty;
and yet this sin is deep and widespread.—
The Review and Herald,
October 13, 1896
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Every Dollar Charged
Will you withhold from God His own? Will you divert from the
treasury the portion of means which the Lord claims as His? If so, you
are robbing God, and every dollar is charged against you in the books
of heaven.—
The Review and Herald, December 23, 1890
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Why the Blessing is Withheld from Some
Hasten, my brethren and sisters, to bring to God a faithful tithe, and
to bring Him also a willing thank offering. There are many who will
not be blessed till they make restitution of the tithe which they have
withheld. God is waiting for you to redeem the past. The hand of the