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The Christian is to be a benefit to others. Thus he himself is
benefited. “He that watereth shall be watered also himself.”
Proverbs
11:25
. This is a law of the divine administration, a law by which God
designs that the streams of beneficence shall be kept, like the waters
of the great deep, in constant circulation, perpetually returning to their
source. In the fulfilling of this law is the power of Christian missions.
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I have been instructed that wherever by self-sacrifice and urgent
efforts facilities for the establishment and advancement of the cause
have been provided, and the Lord has prospered the work, those in that
place should give of their means to help His servants who have been
sent to new fields. Wherever the work has been established on a good
foundation, the believers should feel themselves under obligation to
help those in need, by transferring even at great sacrifice, a portion
or all of the means which in former years was invested in behalf of
the work in their locality. Thus the Lord designs that His work shall
increase. This is the law of restitution in right lines.
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