I feel impelled by the Spirit of the Lord to urge my sisters who profess godliness to cherish modesty of deportment and a becoming reserve, with shamefacedness and sobriety. The liberties taken in this age of corruption should be no criterion for Christ’s followers. These fashionable exhibitions of familiarity should not exist among Christians fitting for immortality. If lasciviousness, pollution, adultery, crime, and murder are the order of the day among those who know not the truth, and who refuse to be controlled by the principles of God’s word, how important that the class professing to be followers of Christ, closely allied to God and angels, should show them a better and nobler way. How important that by their chastity and virtue they stand in marked contrast to that class who are controlled by brute passions. {2T 459.2}

Guds øje bemærker enhver kvartpenny der helliges til hans sag og til giverens villighed eller modsatte. Motivet for at give skrives også ned. De selvopofrende og helligede som giver de ting tilbage til Gud som er hans, sådan som han forlanger, vil blive belønnet efter deres gerninger. Selv om sådanne helligede midler misbruges, så at de ikke udfører det formål som giveren havde for øje, - Guds ære og sjæles frelse, - vil dem som gør offeret i oprigtighed, kun med Guds ære for øje, ikke miste deres løn.