新南威尔士州格兰维尔威廉姆斯街佩尔阿杜瓦
1894年4月23日
……主愿意让每一个人都承认祂是祂借给我们去交易的所有货财的合法所有者。祂对我们说：你要将十分之一、礼物和供物归还给我，作为你对我的忠诚的象征，你对我的依赖的记号，我就会赐福你，你就会成为福气的通道。你的感恩捐将是你对我的责任感的一个象征。仅仅以言语结束的感激，没有特别的价值;因为信心是藉着行为得以完全的;若没有行为，你的信仰表白就没有价值。上帝在不断地给予，而人则在不断地接受。何时我们厌倦了将主自己的东西归还给祂，祂的福气就会向我们扣留。只要我们倚靠上帝的恩赐，我们就有义务向祂献上感恩捐。{PC 8.3}
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Per Ardua, Williams St., Granville, N.S.W.
April 23, 1894
...The Lord would have every one acknowledge that He is the rightful owner of all the goods which He has lent us to trade upon. He says to us, Render back to Me the tithes and gifts and offerings, as a token of your loyalty to Me, and of your dependence upon Me, and I will bless you, and you shall be channels of blessing. Your gratitude offerings will be a token of your sense of obligation to Me. The gratitude that ends simply in words, has no particular value; for faith is made perfect by works, and without works your profession of faith is of no worth. God is continually giving, and the human agent is continually receiving. When we become weary of returning to the Lord His own, His blessing will be withheld from us. As long as we are dependent upon God’s bounty, our obligations to render gratitude offerings to Him are upon us.?{PC 8.3}
(signed)Ellen G. White -
1908年6月9日
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