A limit must be set to the expansion of
our institutions in Battle Creek. The field is the world, and
God has an interest in other parts of His great vineyard. There
are churches and institutions that
are straining every nerve to get standing room, that they may
live. Let our prosperous institutions see to it that they strengthen
the things that remain which are ready to die. How easily might
the large church in Battle Creek appropriate some of its means
for the aid of the poorer churches, which are nearly crushed
under a load of debt! Why is it that these sister churches are
left from year to year to struggle with poverty and debt? Selfishness
brings spiritual death. What great good our more able churches
might accomplish if they would aid their sister churches, bringing
them to a condition of prosperity!