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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
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of you, unfaithful stewards; He will call you to account. I saw that
the stewards of God can by faithful, judicious management 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 who have no
children, to place their means where it can be used in the cause of God
if they should be suddenly taken away. But I saw that Satan and his
angels exult over their success in this matter. And those who should
be wise heirs of salvation almost willingly let their Lord’s money slip
out of their hands into the enemy’s ranks. In this way they strengthen
Satan’s kingdom, and seem to feel very easy about it!
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