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We Give Liberally To Spread the Gospel, September 25
Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all
thine increase.
Proverbs 3:9
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Are you not chosen of God to be a vessel unto honor, to convey light
and truth to those who are in error and darkness? The saving message of
truth has come to you, and if you receive of the spirit of Christ, you will
have a love for the souls who are in peril
Men will compass land and sea for earthly gain, and endure privation
and suffering to obtain their object, yet will turn away from heaven’s
attractions, and not regard eternal riches. Men who are in comparative
poverty are usually the ones who do the most to sustain the cause of God.
They are generous with their little. They have strengthened their generous
impulses by continual liberalities. When their expenditures pressed close
upon the income, their passion for earthly riches had no room or chance to
strengthen. But many, when they begin to gather earthly riches, commence
to calculate how long it will be before they can be in possession of a
certain sum. In their anxiety to amass wealth for themselves, they fail to
become rich toward God
It should be your object, in whatever vocation you may be found, to
do your work in a manner that shall glorify God. All that you gain, you
should look upon as capital to be invested in the bank of heaven. It should
be your joy to devote means, and time, and ability to win souls for Christ,
to send the light to those who sit in darkness
The Lord has ordained that the diffusion of light and truth in the earth
shall be dependent upon the efforts and offerings of those who are partakers
of the heavenly gift. He might have made angels the ambassadors of His
truth; He might have made known His will, as He proclaimed the law
from Sinai, with His own voice; but in His infinite love and wisdom He
called men to become co-laborers with Himself, by choosing them to do
this work
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