Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

sojourners with Me." (Leviticus 25:23). God was the rightful owner,
the original land holder. It was to be impressed on everyone that the
poor and unfortunate have as much right to a place in God's world as
the wealthy.
Our merciful Creator made these kinds of provisions to lessen
suffering, to bring some ray of hope, to flash some gleam of
sunshine into the life of the very poor and distressed.
Great evils result from the continued building up of wealth by
one class of people and the poverty of another. The sense of this
inequality would bring out strong feelings in the poorer class. There
would be a feeling of despair and desperation that would tend to
break down society and open the door to crimes of every kind. The
regulations that God established were to promote social equality.
The sabbatical year and the Jubilee would set right to a great extent
the things that had gone wrong in the social and political order of
the nation.
These regulations, designed to bless the rich no less than the
poor, would restrain greed and cultivate a noble spirit of kindness.
By encouraging kindness between all classes, they would promote
stability of government.
We are all woven together in the great web of humanity.
Whatever we can do to benefit others will reflect in blessing on
ourselves. The law of mutual dependence runs through all classes of
society. The poor are not more dependent on the rich than are the
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