m WESTERN AFRICA. 
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CHAPTER XXXIV. 
MEASITRE and test c of love. 
I must be permitted to dwell for a few moments 
upon a subject on 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 I. John hi. 16, 17. 
In the sixteenth 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 lifef^ and. 
here he is called to give his life^ if the promotion 
of Christ’s cause demands it. 
In the seventeenth verse worldly goods are 
spoken of, and the strong implication is that those 
who withhold them can not enjoy the love of God. 
Connect this with a parallel passage in Ephe- 
sians, V. 5, where it is said that the covetous man 
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