THE great argument which appeals to the heart of God is humanity's need. For that He gave His only beloved Son. He bestowed this wonderful gift, not because we were worthy, but because we were needy.
But He would make us worthy, and put the same spirit within us that actuated Him. Therefore He permits humanity to be in affliction, His own people and institutions to be in dire want and distress in order that the hearts of His people may not alone be moved to sympathy, but actuated to do; for merely to be moved to sympathy, however deeply, and not exercise benevolence if within our power, proves a curse instead of a blessing.
The Pacific Press is one of the Lord's institutions. He has signally blessed it in the past; there are greater promises of blessing in the future. Its need, its utter need, appeals to us all now, brother; and the investment is every way worthy. Some are giving dollars gladly where it seems that they could scarcely afford cents, and where others, to the blessing of God's cause and their own good, could give hundreds and thousands. Are there not many who will give thousands?