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to dip into the Lord’s consecrated portion which should be used only
to sustain the ministers in new fields as well as in other places. And
this should not be done in a niggardly way. All the inconveniences
that the laborers must wrestle with in these new fields should be taken
into consideration. The expense of living is greater in some localities
than in others
.
Special efforts should be made for those who are where fruit is
scarce, for they could live so much cheaper if they were where they
could get fruit. When they are sent to fields where they are deprived
of nearly everything because of the expense, a careful consideration
should be made of these matters, and the lack should be supplied as
far as possible, but not by withdrawing from his salary for these extra
things. Those who are more favorably situated should share their
prosperity with those who are in need of the very things that they are
so abundantly supplied with in their locality
.
We shall become very narrow, conceited, and selfish if we are not
guarded and do not watch against the foe we have to meet and contend
with. I shall do something for Brother Robert Hare. I will supply some
things which will relieve the situation of want of fruit. I will get a
couple of hundred pounds of grapes, and make [them] into jelly, that
they can use on their bread. Now see what others can do. Each can
do a little, and send to Brother Hare. When you visit the place, you
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can take some things, and we will prepare some things and send them
before that time. We will make this a thank offering to God because
we are permitted to live in localities where we can obtain these things
and enjoy them. I think the Lord would bless us in doing this
.
Now in regard to educating students in our schools. It is a good
idea; it will have to be done; but God forbid that in the place of prac-
ticing self-denial and self-sacrifice our individual selves, to do this
work, we should subtract from the Lord’s portion, specially reserved
to sustain the ministers in active labor in the field, and ... to [keep]
at work those who are already ordained for the work. We can easily
consider these matters, how much it requires to support our own fam-
ilies according to the members of that family. Then let those whose
business it is act in accordance with this rule. Look not upon our own
things but upon the things of others. Let us practice the golden rule,
and do unto others as we would that they should do unto us were we
in like circumstances
.