The faithful steward : $b or, systematic beneficence an essential of Christian characterClark, Sereno D. (Sereno Dickenson)
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The faithful steward : $b or, systematic beneficence an essential of Christian character
Clark, Sereno D. (Sereno Dickenson)
Christian stewardship; Finance, Personal -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Be persuaded, then, to lay your youth a victim on the altar of charity.
Let your whole being burn there till life is extinct; and when you enter
upon the peaceful rest of heaven, you will find multitudes there, aided
thither by your timely munificence, with whom you may unite in
transporting hallelujahs forever.
Finally, let me entreat readers of every class deeply to ponder the
subject here unfolded. No rational being, with any sense of his
responsibilities, can treat it with indifference. I beseech you, pass
not over these pages with a hasty glance, and then throw them aside.
Meditate upon them till your hearts burn within you. Pray over them
till you feel a harmony of soul with Christ; and, in this spirit, come
to a solemn determination whether you will adopt or reject this system
of views, of affections, of resolutions, and of accordant actions. Do
one or the other. No other course is either rational or christian. And
while you deliberately decide, realize that the eye of the Triune
Jehovah is fixed upon you, and that that dread Judge, before "whose face
the earth and the heavens" shall flee away, will review the transaction.
How solemn your position! What amazing consequences are depending on
your present determination! It will affect your usefulness here, and
your relations in eternity. You are striking a chord of the mighty harp
of the universe, which will tremble with the songs of the redeemed, or
the moanings of the damned. Can you touch it heedlessly?
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