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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
His own devised plan. He lays claim to all as His own, and of that
entrusted to man, He claims His portion. “For I am the Lord, I
change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Even from
the days of your fathers ye are gone away from Mine ordinances,
and have not kept them. Return unto Me, and I will return unto you,
saith the Lord of hosts.”
Those who plead that they cannot understand this plain and
decisive statement—which, if they are obedient, means so much to
them in blessings which will be received, when even the windows of
heaven will be opened and blessings poured out to overflowing—are
not honest before God. Their excuse that they did not know the will
of God will be of no avail for them in the great day of judgment.
All to Do Their Duty
Let the neglected tithes be now brought in. Let the new year
open upon you as men honest in their deal with God. Let those that
have withheld their tithes send them in before the year 1896 shall
close, that they may be right with God, and never, never again run
any risk of being cursed of God. Presidents of our conferences, do
your duty; speak not your words, but a plain “Thus saith the Lord.”
Elders of churches, do your duty. Labor from home to home, that the
flock of God shall not be remiss in this great matter, which involves
such a blessing or such a curse.
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Let all who fear God come up to the help of the Lord, and show
themselves faithful stewards. The truth must go to all parts of the
world. I have been shown that many in our churches are robbing God
in tithes and offerings. God will execute upon them just that which
He has declared. To the obedient, He will give rich blessings; to the
transgressor, a curse. Every man who bears the message of truth
to our churches must do his duty by warning, educating, rebuking.
Any neglect of duty which is a robbery toward God means a curse
upon the delinquent.
The Lord will not hold guiltless those who are deficient in doing
the work that He requires at their hands—in seeing that the church
is kept wholesome and healthy spiritually, and doing all their duty
in allowing no neglect which will bring the threatened curse upon
His people. A curse is pronounced upon all who withhold their tithe