One does not need to have an extensive acquaintance in the ranks of Seventh-day Adventists to be able to point out a number of men well advanced in years who have given not only themselves, but practically all their goods, to the spread of the third angel’s message. The beauty of it all is that, for the most part, the giving has been done so unconsciously that as a general thing these self-sacrificing men do not seem to feel that they have done anything or given anything. The message found these men, one with a good farm, another with a good business, or just entering upon a promising professional career. What have the most of them today?—Simply a home and the support of a rather meager salary, and some of them do not even own their homes. These men have grown gray in the third angel’s message, yet they are still in active service. Their means are in our institutions, their hearts are in the work. They are never heard telling of their long years of hard service, nor of the self-denial which they have practised; for in a very wide and practical sense not one of them says that “the things which he possessed were his own.” They feel that they have simply given to the Lord his own. And this is the spirit that should animate every Seventh-day Adventist. In Israel the value of property was estimated according to their distance in point of time from the year of jubilee. It should be the same among God’s people in these last days. Do we believe that the year of jubilee is near? Then should we not place a lower valuation upon earthly things, and rapidly cut the cords that bind us to this world?—Southern Watchman.