Men will invest in patent rights and meet with heavy losses, and it is taken as a matter of course. But in the work and cause of God, men are afraid to venture. Money seems to them to be a dead loss that does not bring immediate returns when invested in the work of saving souls. The very means that is now so sparingly invested in the cause of God, and that is selfishly retained, will in a little while be cast with all idols to the moles and to the bats. Money will soon depreciate in value very suddenly when the reality of eternal scenes opens to the senses of man. {Ev 62.4}

Mennesker investerer i patentrettigheder og lider store tab, og dette tages ganske naturligt. (63) Men i Guds arbejde og sag, er mennesker bange for at satse. For dem er penge som et fuldstændigt tab, der ikke umiddelbart giver noget tilbage, når de sættes i Gudssag, og det som tilbageholdes egenkærligt, vil for en lille stund gøre fælles sag med alle afguder til undergravende virksomhed og til soldeture. Penge vil hurtigt og pludseligt miste sin værdi, når evighedens realiteter åbner sig for menneskernes sanser.