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The Retirement Years
measures to supply their necessities. This has been done in the past,
and thus in some cases Seventh-day Adventists have dishonored their
profession of faith and have given the world opportunity to reproach
the cause of God.
It is now the duty of God’s people to roll back this reproach by
providing these servants of God with comfortable homes, with a few
acres of land on which they can raise their own produce and feel that
they are not dependent on the charities of their brethren. With what
pleasure and peace would these worn laborers look to a quiet little
home where their just claims to its rest would be recognized!
The duty we owe to these persons has been referred to again
and again, but no decided action has been taken in reference to it.
As a people we should feel our responsibility in this matter. Every
church member should feel an interest in all that concerns the human
brotherhood and the brotherhood in Christ. We are members one
of another; if one member suffers, all the members suffer with him.
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Something must be done, and the conference should have spiritual
discernment, that they may understand the privileges and comforts
that these worn-out workers need and deserve.—
Testimonies for the
Church 7:290-292
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