MINISTRY OF HEALING: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 12

 Unemployed and the Homeless

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/FdVrDtj7_UM?list=PL4ByrircmXL5k2JRIamVNFkvW1Y3wIfiG

He who taught Adam and Eve in Eden how to tend the garden, desires to instruct men today.

We may give to the poor, and harm them, by teaching them to be dependent. Such giving encourages selfishness and helplessness. Often it leads to idleness, extravagance, and intemperance.

Real charity helps men to help themselves. If one comes to our door and asks for food, we should not turn him away hungry; his poverty may be the result of misfortune. But true beneficence means more than mere gifts. It means a genuine interest in the welfare of others.

Many look upon labor as drudgery, and they try to obtain a livelihood by scheming rather than by honest toil. This desire to get a living without work opens the door to wretchedness and vice and crime almost without limit.

 Give counsel, execute justice; make thy shade as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive.
Isaiah 16:3