The Gift Most Needed by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 23, 1903

The Gift Most Needed

By Editor

IN this issue are several articles calling attention to the needs of the Australasian field, and inviting gifts of means from our people in America. We must not get the impression, however, that the main thing that is needed in the cause, in any part of the world, is money. What is retarding the work, and has retarded it all along, is not the lack of money, but the lack of consecration. The lack of consecration occasioned a lack of means, it is true; but if there had been consecration enough, there would have been no lack of anything else. God has all the gold and silver in the world at his command, but without consecration on the part of those to whom he has entrusted his message to mankind, the mere wealth would be useless. It would become a curse instead of a blessing. So the gift that is most needed, now as always, is the gift of one's self to the cause which this money is needed to advance. “Son, give Me thine heart.” First, give your own selves, and then the gift of your means will be proportioned as it ought.