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Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Jun 7, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 23.

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Consecration

By James Thoburn

Consecration is a term which means—or should mean—the same thing when applied to all human beings. If I as a foreign missionary am expected to give up all things for the interest of the work—to count home and treasure and ease and personal comfort as nothing when the interests of the work are at stake—my brother in the United States who unhesitatingly assigns this standard of duty to me should be governed by a spirit precisely similar. He may not be called upon to give up the things that I may be required to forsake, but his devotion should be as complete, and whatever he is required to do should be done as cheerfully and with as little question as if he were a missionary in China or Africa.—Bishop Thoburn.