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word of God and will use their entrusted means to prepare the way
of the Lord, to make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
For years the perplexing question has been before us: How can
we raise funds adequate for the support of the missions which the
Lord has gone before us to open? We read the plain commands of
the gospel; and the missions, in both home and foreign fields, present
their necessities. The indications, yea, the positive revelations of
Providence, unite in urging us to do quickly the work that is waiting
to be done. The Lord desires that moneyed men shall be converted
and act as His helping hand in reaching others. He desires that those
who can help in the work of reform and restoration shall see the
precious light of truth and be transformed in character and led to use
their entrusted capital in His service. He would have them invest the
means He has lent them, in doing good, in opening the way for the
gospel to be preached to all classes nigh and afar off.
Will not heaven be appreciated by the worldly wise men? Oh,
yes; there they will find rest and peace and repose from all trifling,
all ambition, all self-serving. Urge them to seek for the peace and
happiness and joy that Christ is longing to bestow upon them. Urge
them to give their attention to securing the richest gift that can be
given to mortal man—the robe of Christ’s righteousness. Christ
offers them a life that measures with the life of God, and a far more
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exceeding and eternal weight of glory. If they accept Christ they will
have the highest honor, honor which the world can neither give nor
take away. They will find that in the keeping of the commandments
of God there is great reward.
The compassionate Redeemer bids His servants give to rich and
poor the call to the supper. Go out into the highways and the hedges,
and by your persevering, determined efforts, compel them to come
in. Let ministers of the gospel take hold of these worldly moneyed
men and bring them to the banquet of truth that Christ has prepared
for them. He who gave His precious life for them says: “Bring them
in, and seat them at My table, and I will serve them.”
Ministers of Christ, link yourselves up with this class. Pass them
not by as hopeless. Work with all the persuasion possible, and as the
fruit of your faithful efforts you will see in the kingdom of heaven
men and women who will be crowned as overcomers to sing the
triumphant song of the conqueror. “They shall walk with Me in