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Chapter 7—Economy
To Be Practiced in All Things
[The articles in this section are from Special Testimonies, Series A
3:3-7 (1895).]
Melbourne, Australia,
August 3, 1892
My dear Brethren and Sisters,
My mind has been very much exercised for several nights, sleep-
ing and waking, in regard to the work to be done in this country. In
this wide missionary field there is a great deal to be done in advanc-
ing the cause and work of the Master, and with the great want of
means and of workers, we know not how it can be done. We must
humble our hearts before God, and offer up sincere, fervent prayer
that the Lord, who is rich in resources, will open our way. “The
silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, saith the Lord,” “and the cattle
upon a thousand hills.”
The life of Christ, the Lord of glory, is our example. He came
from heaven, where all was riches and splendor; but He laid aside His
royal crown, His royal robe, and clothed His divinity with humanity.
Why? That He might meet men where they were. He did not rank
Himself with the wealthy, the lordly of earth. The mission of Christ
was to reach the very poor of earth. He Himself worked from His
earliest years as the Son of a carpenter. Self-denial, did He not know
its meaning? The riches and glory of heaven were His own, but
for our sakes He became poor, that we through His poverty might
become rich. The very foundation of His mission was self-denial,
self-sacrifice. The world was His, He made it; yet in a world of His
own creating the Son of man had not where to lay His head. He said,
“The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the
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Son of man hath not where to lay His head.”
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