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they love. They make the cause of God a part of them; if it suffers,
they suffer with it; when it prospers, they are happy.
Proverbs 3:9, 10
: “Honor the Lord with thy substance, and with the
first fruits of all thine increase: so shall thy barns be filled with plenty,
and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.” Those who are slothful
may quiet themselves with the thought that God requires nothing of
them because they have no increase. This will be no excuse for them;
for if they had diligently employed their time, if they had not been
slothful in business, they would have had increase. Had they resolutely
exerted themselves to earn something to cast into the treasury of God,
ways would be opened for them, and they would have some increase
to devote to the cause of God, and thus to lay up a treasure in heaven.
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