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VOIOME XXIV.
DENVER, COLO., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1914.
NUMBER 7.
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Y BRETHREN AND SISTERS, invest your means in the eatablishment of Christian
M missions, from which the light of truth will shine forth, drawing souls ta God. One soul,
truly converted becoming a missionary for God, will win other souls to the Saviour.
God himself originated plans for the advancement of His work, and He has provided His peo-
ple with a surplus of means, that when He calls for help, they may respond. saying, ‘‘Lord,
thy pound hath gained other pounds.” —Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 9, p. 58.
As an Investment
Everywhere men of the world are seeking
for the safest and most profitable enterprige
from the error of his way shall save a soul |
from death.”—James 5:20. How much is a
soul worth? What is the Bible estimate of
the value of a human soul? Christ loved
in which to invest their money. Several
considerations are taken into account in de-
ciding this matter, but the question para-
mount to all others, is, Is the enterprise a
safe one, and does it insure results which
will make the investment a profitable one?
Sometimes men are entrusted with the
property of others for safe and profitable in-
vestment. This involves the responsibility
of stewardship, which calls for no less care
and diligence than in one’s own affairs.
“Moreover” says the apostle, “it is required
in stewards that a man be found faithful.”
The Lord has made us stewards of His
manifold blessings. He demands of us the
best and most profitable use of the means
with which He entrusts us as His stewards.
Men often invest their money in enter-
prises from which they cannot.expect imme-
diate returns, knowing that only in future
years may they hope for results which shall
prove the investment to have been a wise
and profitable one.
The one who lives only for this world,
whose sole aim is to lay up treasure here
will perish with this world, when, as the
apostle states it, “The world passeth away
and the lust thereof.”
The christian, whose “citizenship is in
heaven, from whence also we look for the
Saviour,” is admonished to “lay up treasure
in heaven.” How may this be done? We
read that “He which converteth the sinner
one soul so much that He “gave Himself for
me.” —Gal. 2:20. One soul saved eternally
is worth more than all the combined mil-
lions of the Rockefellers and the Vander-
bilts, yea, than all the treasures ot this
whole world. Said the Saviour, “What
shall.it profit a man if he shall gain the
whole world, and lose his own soul?”
Our love toward God is measured by our
efforts toward those who are in need of the
light of the gospel. "Whoso hath this
world’s good, and seeth his brother have
need and shutteth up his bowels of com-
passion from him, how dwelleth the love of
God in him?’—1 John 3:17.
Millions of our brothers in heathen lands
are in perishing need of the blessed light
of this third angel’s message. But, as the
apostle states the question, “How shall they
call on Him in whom they have not believed?
and how shall they believe in Him of
whom they have not heard? and how shall
they hear without a preacher? and how
shail they preach except they be sent?”—
Rom. 1:14, 15. We might logically add to
the above interrogations, and how shall
they be sent, without the money with which
to send and support them?
THE FOREIGN MISSIONS INVESTMENT FUND
is a plan which invites individuals to dedi-
cate to the cause of foreign missions the
proceeds of a small portion of the farm, say
an acre of potatoes, grain, fruit, or vege-
tables; a small corner or a few rows of stuff
in the garden; a calf; a colt; a brood of
chickens; a week’s earnings at some stated
time during the summer; or any -one-of a
thousand ways to be thought: of in which to
make an investment.
The last Sabbath in November (November
28) will be “Investment Fund Ingathering
Day” in the Colorado Conference. On that
day, in all our churches and companies, the
proceeds of our foreign mission investments
will be brought in. An appropriate pro-
gram will be prepared for the occasion.
The date suggested will be three days
after our national thanksgiving day. How
fitting it will be for those who love this
message to express gratitude to our heavenly
Father for His unnumbered blessings to us
during the year which will then be nearing
its close. Fathers, mothers, children, and
all our people will then bring in the pro-
ceeds of the investments they are making
this spring.
Remember the divine assurance, “He that
soweth bountifully shall reap also bounti-
fully.” Let us now, old and young, make
some investment, and thus invite a bounti-
ful outpouring of God’s Holy Spirit upon
our families and churches, and let us all
plan and look forward to November 28, as a
special time of refreshing.
A. T. RosiNson.
It is a solemn responsibility, and a tremendous
charge, to have in one’s possession a reprieve for
men under condemnation.