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is using every device to divert from the Lord’s cause the means so
much needed. Many are binding up their talent of means in worldly
enterprises, when the cause of God needs every dollar to advance His
truth and glorify His name. I ask: Shall we not lay up for ourselves
treasure in heaven, in bags that wax not old?
I would especially urge the aged who are soon to make a disposal
of their means to remember those who have ministered faithfully in
word and doctrine. Place your means where, should health, and life
fail, they can be invested in the cause of God. Thus they will be put
out to the exchangers and be constantly accumulating.—
Testimonies
for the Church 7:295, 296
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When Satan Controls Business Matters
God is displeased with the slack, loose manner in which many of
His professed people conduct their worldly business. They seem to
have lost all sense of the fact that the property they are using belongs to
God, and that they must render to Him an account of their stewardship.
Some leave their worldly business in perfect confusion. Satan has
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his eye on it all, and he strikes at a favorable opportunity, and by his
management takes much means out of the ranks of Sabbath keepers.
And this means goes into his ranks.
Some who are aged are unwilling to make any settlement of their
worldly business, and in an unexpected moment they sicken and die.
Their children who have no interest in the truth, take the property.
Satan has managed it as suited him. “If therefore ye have not been
faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the
true riches? And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another
man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?”
I was shown the awful fact that Satan and his angels have had more
to do with the management of the property of God’s professed people
than the Lord has. Stewards of the last days are unwise. They suffer
Satan to control their business matters, and get into his ranks what
belongs to, and should be in, the cause of God. God takes notice of
you, unfaithful stewards; He will call you to account.
I saw that the stewards of God can by faithful, judicious manage-
ment keep their business in this world square, exact, and straight. And
it is especially the privilege and duty of the aged, the feeble, and those