Seite 12 - Counsels on Stewardship (1940)

viii Counsels on Stewardship
Riches Not a Ransom for the Transgressor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
The Greatest Danger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Chapter 31—Satan’s Wiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Worse Than Earthly Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
A Dwarfed Religious Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Chapter 32—Wealth Misused . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Transformed Through Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Property to Be Prized but Not Hoarded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Chapter 33—Sympathy for the Poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
No Caste in God’s Sight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Claims of the Widow and Fatherless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Not to Be Supported in Idleness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Diverting Means From the Mission Treasury . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Self-Denial—Self-Sacrifice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
For Further Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Section 6—Liberality Abounding in Poverty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Chapter 34—Liberality Commended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Liberality Rewarded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
The Widow’s Two Mites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Mary’s Acceptable Offering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Chapter 35—Precious in God’s Sight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
As Fragrant Incense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
The Givers Rewarded Though Gifts Are Misappropriated . . 153
As Estimated in the Heavenly Balances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
For Further Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Section 7—The Wealth of the Gentiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Chapter 36—Favors to Be Received as Well as Imparted . . . . . 157
Example of Nehemiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Receiving Gifts From Outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Chapter 37—God Preparing the Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Impressed by the Spirit to Give . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Calling Upon Rich Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
God Will Open the Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
A Means of Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Chapter 38—The Harvest Ingathering Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Fruit of This Twofold Effort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
For Further Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Section 8—The True Motives for Acceptable Giving . . . . . . . . . . 166