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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 19, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 16.

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And Had All Things Common

"And had all things common."—We must not associate this in our minds with modern communism. Communities have been formed where each member on joining was obliged to put all his property into the common fund; but there was no compulsion in this case. From chapter 4:5 we learn that persons were free to sell or not, as they pleased, or, having sold, to give either the whole or a part. The selling and giving were entirely voluntary.