CHAPTER XXXIV. 
MEASURE AND TEST OF LOVE. 
Before this volume is closed I must be 
permitted to dwell for a few moments upon 
a subject upon which the Scriptures are plain, 
and unequivocal ; but it is a subject which 
the Christian world is slow to comprehend 
and appreciate. It is the relation which 
money and personal sacrifice sustain to the 
evangelization of the heathen. Turn to the 
16th and 17th verses of the 3d chapter of 
1st John* 
In the 16th verse the idea of self-sacrifice 
is presented, and a sacrifice is required, 
which is more valuable than all the wealth 
that it has ever yet been the fortune of any 
mortal to possess,— for "all that a man hath 
will he give for his life" — and here he is 
called to give his life, if the promotion of 
Christ's cause demands it. 
In the 17th verse worldly goods are treat- 
ed, and the strong implication is, that those 
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