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The Ministry of Healing
not only means, but time. Often this is most needed. There are many
whom you might help with your suggestions, your tact and skill.
Show them how to dress simply and yet tastefully. Many a woman
remains away from the house of God because her shabby, ill-fitting
garments are in such striking contrast to the dress of others. Many a
sensitive spirit cherishes a sense of bitter humiliation and injustice
because of this contrast. And because of it many are led to doubt the
reality of religion and to harden their hearts against the gospel.
Christ bids us, “Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing
be lost.” While thousands are every day perishing from famine,
bloodshed, fire, and plague, it becomes every lover of his kind to see
that nothing is wasted, that nothing is needlessly expended, whereby
he might benefit a human being.
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It is wrong to waste our time, wrong to waste our thoughts.
We lose every moment that we devote to self-seeking. If every
moment were valued and rightly employed, we should have time for
everything that we need to do for ourselves or for the world. In the
expenditure of money, in the use of time, strength, opportunities,
let every Christian look to God for guidance. “If any of you lack
wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and
upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”
James 1:5
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“Give, and it shall be given unto you”
“Do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward
shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for He is
kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.”
Luke 6:35
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“He that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse;” but “he that
giveth unto the poor shall not lack.”
Proverbs 28:27
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“Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed
down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into
your bosom.”
Luke 6:38
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