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Chapter 2—Doing for Christ
From what has been shown me, Sabbathkeepers are growing
more selfish as they increase in riches. Their love for Christ and
His people is decreasing. They do not see the wants of the needy,
nor feel their sufferings and sorrows. They do not realize that in
neglecting the poor and the suffering they neglect Christ, and that
in relieving the wants and sufferings of the poor as far as possible,
they minister to Jesus.
Christ says to His redeemed people: “Come, ye blessed of My
Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation
of the world: for I was an hungered, and ye gave Me meat; I was
thirsty, and ye gave Me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took Me in:
naked, and ye clothed Me: I was sick, and ye visited Me: I was in
prison, and ye came unto Me.
“Then shall the righteous answer Him, saying, Lord, when saw
we Thee an hungered, and fed Thee? or thirsty, and gave Thee drink?
When saw we Thee a stranger, and took Thee in? or naked, and
clothed Thee? Or when saw we Thee sick, or in prison, and came
unto Thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I
say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of
these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.”
To become a toiler, to continue patiently in well-doing which
calls for self-denying labor, is a glorious work, which Heaven smiles
upon. Faithful work is more acceptable to God than the most zeal-
ous and thought-to-be holiest worship. It is working together with
Christ that is true worship. Prayers, exhortation, and talk are cheap
fruits, which are frequently tied on; but fruits that are manifested in
good works, in caring for the needy, the fatherless, and widows, are
genuine fruits, and grow naturally upon a good tree.
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Pure religion and undefiled before the Father is this: “To visit
the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself
unspotted from the world.” Good deeds are the fruit that Christ
requires us to bear: kind words, deeds of benevolence, of tender
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