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privilege of testifying before you this morning that the Lord has turned
matters, over and over again, in such a way as to give us more than we
could possibly ask for.
The Lord will prove His servants; and if they prove true to Him,
and leave their cases with Him, He will help them in every time of
need.
We are not laborers together for God for the wages we may receive
in His service. True, brethren, you must have wages with which to
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support your families; but if you should begin to stipulate as to just
how much you shall receive, you may prove a stumbling block to
someone else who does not have the disposition, perhaps, that you
have to be liberal; and the result will be confusion. Others will think
that all are not dealt with on an equality. You will soon find that the
cause of God will become cramped; and this result you do not desire
to see. You wish to see the cause of God placed on vantage ground.
By your example, as well as by your words, the people are to have a
living assurance that the truth received into the heart begets the spirit
of self-denial. And as you go forward in this spirit, there are many that
will follow.
The Lord desires His children to act in that self-denying, self-
sacrificing way that will bring to us the satisfaction of having per-
formed our duty well because it was duty. The only-begotten Son of
God gave Himself to an ignominious death on the cross, and should
we complain at the sacrifices we are called upon to make?
During my wakeful hours through the night season, I have been
pleading with the Lord to guard our brethren against the tendency to
promise to go here or there on the stipulation that they are to have a
little higher wage. If they go in a spirit of self-sacrifice, trusting in
Him, the Lord will grant sustaining power to mind and character, and
success will be the result.
In the future, our work is to be carried forward in self-denial and
self-sacrifice even beyond that which we have seen in past years. God
desires us to commit our souls to Him, that He may work through us
in manifold ways. I feel intensely over these matters. Brethren, let us
walk in meekness and lowliness of mind, and put before our associates
an example of self-sacrifice. If we do our part in faith, God will open
ways before us now undreamed of....