THE PLAN

THE PLAN

·         “The Lord has instituted a plan whereby many of the students in our schools can learn practical lessons needful to success in afterlife…the privilege of handling precious books that have been dedicated to the advancement of our educational and sanitarium work.” {Colporter Ministry, p. 30).

·         “God desired that the sale of Christ's Object Lessons shall be recognized by all our people as His method of relieving our schools from debt. It is because this plan has been neglected that we now feel so keenly our lack of means for the advancing work. Had the schools availed themselves of the provision thus made for them, there would be more money in the school treasuries…and, best of all, teachers and students would have received the very lessons that they needed to learn in the Master's service.” {Publishing Ministry, p. 363}

·         “Christ’s Object Lessons was, in the plan of God, given to help our schools to roll away the terrible burden of debt. I saw clearly that the way in which the book had been handled was the Lord's plan, and that it was accomplishing great good.” {Ibid., p. 364}

·         “I made of that book an offering to the Lord, and I cannot take it off the altar of sacrifice.  As long as I live, that book is to be handled as none of my other books have been handled.  And when I am no longer with you, you must see that this book is kept on the altar of sacrifice.  *I will not change a plan that has already brought to the cause of God, for the relief of our schools, two hundred thousand dollars.” {Ibid., p. 364}

*Christ’s Object Lessons was published in 1900 and this letter was written in 1903. The $200,000 raised to relieve our schools in that 3 year period would be equivalent to $4-5 million today.