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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers - Ellen G. White

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your stewardship. Whether you have one talent, or<br />

two, or five, not a farthing is <strong>to</strong> be squ<strong>and</strong>ered on<br />

your own selfish indulgences. Your accountability<br />

<strong>to</strong> Heaven should cause you <strong>to</strong> fear <strong>and</strong> tremble.<br />

The decisions of the last day turn upon our<br />

practical benevolence. Christ acknowledges every<br />

act of beneficence as done <strong>to</strong> Himself.<br />

All who name the name of Christ should work<br />

for Him with heart <strong>and</strong> mind <strong>and</strong> soul <strong>and</strong> strength;<br />

<strong>and</strong> they will work if they believe the great gospel<br />

of truth. The heartiness of their zeal for Christ's<br />

sake will testify <strong>to</strong> the measure of their faith. Self<br />

will be swallowed in Christ if they are truly united<br />

with Him. "I live," said the great apostle; "yet not I,<br />

but Christ liveth in me: <strong>and</strong> the life which I now<br />

live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of<br />

God, who loved me, <strong>and</strong> gave Himself for me."<br />

The light given over <strong>and</strong> over again by the<br />

Spirit of God is, Do not colonize.[* SEE<br />

APPENDIX.] Enter the large cities, <strong>and</strong> create an<br />

interest among the high <strong>and</strong> the low. Make it your<br />

work <strong>to</strong> preach the gospel <strong>to</strong> the poor, but do not<br />

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