Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

Christianity. Look at its destitution of ministers,
teachers, and medical missionaries. Consider the
ignorance, the poverty, the misery, the distress, of
many of the people. And yet this field lies close at
our doors. How selfish, how inattentive, we have
been to our neighbors! We have heartlessly passed
them by, doing little to relieve their sufferings. If
the gospel commission had been studied and
obeyed by our people, the South would have
received its proportionate share of ministry. If
those who have received the light had walked in
the light, they would have realized that upon them
rested the responsibility of cultivating this longneglected
portion of the vineyard.
God is calling upon His people to give Him of
the means that He has entrusted to them, in order
that institutions may be established in the destitute
fields that are ripe for the harvest. He calls upon
those who have money in the banks to put it into
circulation. By giving of our substance to sustain
God’s work, we show in a practical manner that we
love Him supremely and our neighbor as ourselves.
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