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Testimonies for the Church Volume 7
Consecrated Financiers .
The Scandinavian institutions need not have been in the position
in which they are, and they would not be in this position had our
brethren in America, years ago, done what they should have done.
A man of experience in business lines, with a practical knowledge
of bookkeeping, should have been sent to Europe to superintend the
keeping of the accounts in our institutions there. And if this work
demanded more than one man, more than one should have been sent.
Thus thousands and thousands of dollars would have been saved.
Such men should be employed in our work in America, men who
are devoted to God, men who know what the principles of heaven
are, men who have learned what it means to walk with God. If such
men had superintended the financial affairs of our conferences and
institutions, there would today be plenty of money in the treasury;
and our institutions would now stand as God has declared they should
stand, helping the work by self-denial and self-sacrifice.
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