Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

position would be most difficult. Many who have no experience would have no idea ofthe magnitude of the enterprise and would want things to go according to their ideas.Some would wonder why the poor could not come and be treated for nothing, andwould be tempted to think that it was a money-making enterprise after all; and this oneand that one would wish to have something to say, and would have just about so muchfault to find, let matters go as they might; for I was shown that some would consider it avirtue to be jealous and stand out and oppose. They pride themselves on not receivingeverything just as soon as it comes. Like Thomas, they boast of their unbelief. Butdid Jesus commend unbelieving Thomas? While granting him the evidence he haddeclared that he would have before believing, Jesus said unto him: “Thomas becausethou hast seen Me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet havebelieved.”I was shown that there is no lack of means among Sabbathkeeping Adventists. Atpresent their greatest danger is in their accumulations of property. Some are continuallyincreasing their cares and labors; they are overcharged. The result is, God and thewants of His cause are nearly forgotten by them; they are spiritually dead. They arerequired to make a sacrifice to God, an offering. A sacrifice does not increase, butdecreases and consumes. Here, I was shown, was a worthy enterprise for God’s peopleto engage in, one in which they can invest means to His glory and the advancementof His cause. Much of the means among our people is only proving an injury to thosewho are holding on to it.Our people should have an institution of their own, under their own control, for thebenefit of the diseased and suffering among us who wish to have health and strengththat they may glorify God in their bodies and spirits, which are His. Such an institution,rightly conducted, would be the means of492