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Coworkers With the Lord

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 22, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 8.

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Coworkers With the Lord

By A. SMITH

A. SMITH
The Lord claims the tithe as his own, and he expects each one of his people to render a strict account of his stewardship in this matter. He designs that in the payment of tithes and offerings his people shall be coworkers with those who use these funds to carry the third angel’s message.
“The Lord has made the proclamation of the gospel dependent on the consecrated ability and the voluntary gifts and offerings of his people. While he has called men to preach the word, he has made it the privilege of the whole church to share in the work by contributing of their means to its support. A tithe of all our income the Lord claims as his own, to be devoted solely to the support of those who give themselves to the preaching of the gospel.”—Mrs. E. G. White, in Review of May 9, 1893.
“Let none feel at liberty to retain their tithe, to use according to their own judgment. They are not to use it for themselves in an emergency, nor to apply it as they see fit, even in what they may regard as the Lord’s work. God has shown honor to men in taking them into partnership with himself in the great work of redemption. He expects his agents to labor not against him, but in unison with him, that his treasury may be supplied.”—Ibid., Feb. 4, 1902.
“Carpenter or farmer, merchant or preacher, the one business is hastening the warning message onward. Just as truly as the Lord calls the missionary to toil unceasingly, with every power of his being and with all the means at his disposal, to carry the light into new fields, even so the call comes to the man toiling in business to dedicate that business to the cause of truth. Whether it be the calling and gift of public ministry, or whether it be the calling and gift of earning means in business, it is one call to this last service, and those who go and those who send will share equally in the reward.”—W. A. S., in Review.
Truly such assuring statements ought to be an encouragement to all our people to be faithful in paying tithes and offerings. We are all one people, working to one common end,—to finish the work God has given us to do in this generation.
Grandville, Mich.