Chapter 5—Gathering Weekly Mission Offerings
Thanksgiving for Past Achievement
We thank God that our Sabbath schools have contributed enough
to advance many a precious enterprise. Children and youth have
given their pennies, that, like little rivulets, have supplied a stream
of beneficence. Children should be educated in such a way that they
may perform unselfish acts which heaven will rejoice to see. When
the dew of youth is upon them, children should be trained how to do
service for Christ. They should be taught self-denial.—
Testimonies on
Sabbath-School Work, 113
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Regularity and System in Giving
This matter of giving is not left to impulse. God has given us
definite instruction in regard to it. He has specified tithes and offerings
as the measure of our obligation. And He desires us to give regularly
and systematically. Paul wrote to the church at Corinth, “Concerning
the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of
Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of
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you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him.” Let each regularly
examine his income, which is all a blessing from God, and set apart
the tithe as a separate fund, to be sacredly the Lord’s. This fund should
not in any case be devoted to any other use; it is to be devoted solely
to support the ministry of the gospel. After the tithe is set apart, let
gifts and offering be apportioned, “as God hath prospered” you.—
The
Review and Herald, May 9, 1893
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Systematic Weekly Giving
The offerings of little children may be acceptable and pleasing to
God. In accordance with the spirit that prompts the gifts will be the
value of the offering. The poor, by following the rule of the apostle
and laying by a small sum every week, help to swell the treasury, and
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