IT matters not from what cause we suffer, whether inability on the part of brethren, or parsimoniousness, we must bear hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ, suffer and toil on, for we shall reap if we faint not. We must not raise up a money-loving and worldly people; and in order to this end we must not be money-loving preachers, nor worldly men ourselves. This is our security against the evil of covetousness.
We do not believe the Lord will accept meeting in two or three conventions in a year, and making three or four contributions and a few speeches for missionary work. We must have more telling evangelizing than this. This kind of work is demoralizing the brethren and drying up all the veins of generosity in them. We shall have more and more dying churches till we change our course and go out into the field as we did thirty-five and forty years ago, and hunt up these churches and wake them up. We must not live with the idea of sending some one to them, but we must go to them; and they must not be helpless creatures, and think to support those who go to their relief by relating their stories about their being few and poor, but do according to their ability, and not let the preacher who visits them sacrifice more than a dozen of them, and they only do their little occasionally, and he making his sacrifices every meeting. This will not stand in the day of judgment.