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Will you pledge yourselves not only to pray for them, but to sustain
them with your tithes and offerings? Will you pledge yourselves to
practice strict self-denial in order that you may have more to give for
the advancement of the work in the “regions beyond”? We feel moved
by the Spirit of God to ask you to pledge yourselves before Him to lay
by something weekly for the support of our missionaries. God will
help and bless you in doing this.—
The Review and Herald, November
11, 1902
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Devising Ways and Means
The church of Christ on earth was organized for missionary pur-
poses, and the Lord desires to see the entire church devising ways and
means whereby high and low, rich and poor, may hear the message
of truth. Not all are called to personal labor in foreign fields, but all
can do something by their prayers and their gifts to aid the missionary
work.
An American businessman, who was an earnest Christian, in con-
versation with a fellow worker, remarked that he himself worked for
Christ twenty-four hours of the day. “In all my business relations,” he
said, “I try to represent my Master. As I have opportunity, I try to win
others to Him. All day I am working for Christ. And at night, while I
sleep, I have a man working for Him in China.”—
Testimonies for the
Church 6:29
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Advancing Home Missionary Work
To show a liberal, self-denying spirit for the success of foreign
missions is a sure way to advance home missionary work; for the
prosperity of the home work depends largely, under God, upon the
reflex influence of the evangelical work done in countries afar off. It is
in working to supply the necessities of others that we bring our souls
into touch with the Source of all power. The Lord has marked every
phase of missionary zeal that has been shown by His people in behalf
of foreign fields. He designs that in every home, in every church, and
at all the centers of the work, a spirit of liberality shall be shown in
sending help to foreign fields, where the workers are struggling against
great odds to give the light to those who sit in darkness. That which