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Welfare Ministry
ministry. The presence of one in need of sympathy and forbearance
and self-sacrificing love would be to many a household a priceless
blessing. It would sweeten and refine the home life and call forth in
old and young those Christlike graces that would make them beautiful
with a divine beauty and rich in heaven’s imperishable treasure.—
The
Ministry of Healing, 204, 205
.
Institutions Not the Best Plan—Men should not be employed
to give their time and talents to the work of bringing the aged or the
orphans together into a company to be fed and clothed. This is not the
best way to manage these cases....
Nor is it best to erect buildings for old men and old women, that
they may be in a company together. Let them be helped in the very
places where they can be helped. Let relations take care of their own
poor relations, and let the church take care of its own needy members.
This is the very work God would have the church do, and they will
obtain a blessing in doing it.—
Manuscript 44, 1900
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