Testimonies for the Church, Volume 9 - Ellen G. White

darkened by many sorrows.
The temptation may come to you to invest your
money in land. Perhaps your children will advise
you to do this. But can you not show a better way?
Has not your money been entrusted to you to be
traded upon wisely, and put out to usury, that when
the Lord comes, He may find the talents doubled?
Can you not see that He wants you to use your
means in helping to build meeting houses and to
establish sanitariums?
We need now to esteem souls above money. If
you know of a higher work in this world than the
work of soulsaving, a work which will bring better
results for the investment of means, will you not
tell us of it, that we may measure its value?
I fear that many of our people do not realize the
importance of God's work. One to whom I wrote
for money answered thus: I received your letter
asking me to lend you some money. But there was
a piece of land that the children thought it
advisable for me to purchase, and I have invested
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