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The Ministry of Health and Healing
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 commands us, “Gather up the fragments that remain, that
nothing be lost.” While thousands are every day perishing from
famine, bloodshed, fire, and plague, everyone who loves people
should see that nothing is wasted, that nothing is needlessly ex-
pended that might benefit a human being.
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 would 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 lacks
wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without
reproach, and it will be given to him.”
James 1:5
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“‘Do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your
reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Highest. For He is
kind to the unthankful and evil.’”
Luke 6:35
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“He who hides his eyes will have many curses,” but “he who
gives to the poor will not lack.”
Proverbs 28:27
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“‘Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down,
shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom.’”
Luke 6:38
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