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Appeal to Laymen
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To those who love God sincerely and have means, I am bidden
to say: Now is the time for you to invest your means in sustaining
the work of the Lord. Now is the time to uphold the hands of the
ministers in their self-denying efforts to save perishing souls. When
you meet in the heavenly courts the souls you have helped to save,
will you not have a glorious reward?
Let none withhold their mites, and let those who have much
rejoice that they can lay up in heaven a treasure that faileth not. The
money that we refuse to invest in the work of the Lord, will perish.
On it no interest will accumulate in the bank of heaven.
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In the following words the apostle Paul describes those who
withhold from God His own: “They that will be rich fall into temp-
tation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which
drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is
the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred
from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
1 Timothy 6:9, 10
.
It means much to sow beside all waters. It means a continual
imparting of gifts and offerings. God will furnish facilities so that
the faithful steward of His entrusted means shall be supplied with
a sufficiency in all things, and be enabled to abound to every good
work. “As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the
poor: his righteousness remaineth forever. Now he that ministereth
seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply
your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness.”
2
Corinthians 9:9, 10
. The seed sown with full, liberal hand is taken
charge of by the Lord. He who ministers seed to the sower gives His
worker that which enables him to co-operate with the Giver of the
seed.
The Lord now calls upon Seventh-day Adventists in every lo-
cality to consecrate themselves to Him and to do their very best,
according to their circumstances, to assist in His work. By their
liberality in making gifts and offerings, He desires them to reveal
their appreciation of His blessings and their gratitude for His mercy.
My dear brethren and sisters, all the money we have is the Lord’s.
I now appeal to you in the name of the Lord to unite in carrying to
successful completion the enterprises that have been undertaken in
the counsels of God. Let not the work of establishing memorials for
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