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the human family. There would be fewer imaginary wants and more
opportunity to work in God’s ways....
Poverty need not shut us out from showing hospitality. We are to
impart what we have. There are those who struggle for a livelihood and
who have great difficulty in making their income meet their necessities;
but they love Jesus in the person of His saints and are ready to show
hospitality to believers and unbelievers, trying to make their visits
profitable. At the family board and the family altar the guests are made
welcome. The season of prayer makes its impression on those who
receive entertainment, and even one visit may mean the saving of a
soul from death. For this work the Lord makes a reckoning, saying: “I
will repay.
Awake to Opportunities—Wake up, brethren and sisters. Do
not be afraid of good works. “Let us not be weary in well doing:
for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” Do not wait to be
told your duty. Open your eyes and see who are around you; make
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yourselves acquainted with the helpless, afflicted, and needy. Hide not
yourselves from them, and seek not to shut out their needs. Who gives
the proofs mentioned in James, of possessing pure religion, untainted
with selfishness or corruption? Who are anxious to do all in their
power to aid in the great plan of salvation
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Testimonies For The Church 6, 344, 345, 347
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Ibid., 2:29
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