Pure and undefiled religion is “to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” James 1:27. Our church members are greatly in need of a knowledge of practical godliness. They need to practice self-denial and self-sacrifice. They need to give evidence to the world that they are Christlike. Therefore the work that Christ requires of them is not to be done by proxy, placing on some committee or some institution the burden that they themselves should bear. They are to become Christlike in character by giving of their means and time, their sympathy, their personal effort, to help the sick, to comfort the sorrowing, to relieve the poor, to encourage the desponding, to enlighten souls in darkness, to point sinners to Christ, to bring home to hearts the obligation of God’s law. {6T 263.2}

En ren og ubesmittet gudsdyrkelse »er dette: at besøge faderløse og enker i deres trængsel og bevare sig selv uplettet af verden«. Jak. 1,27. Vore menighedsmedlemmer trænger hårdt til at kende praktisk gudsfrygt. De trænger til at øve selvfornægtelse og selvopofrelse. De trænger til at give verden et synligt bevis på, at de ligner Kristus. Derfor skal det arbejde. Kristus kræver af dem, at det ikke overlades til andre, at den byrde, de selv skulle bære, lægges på en anden komité eller institution. De skal blive delagtige i Kristi (264) karakter ved at yde af deres midler og deres tid, deres sympati og personlige arbejde, for at hjælpe de syge, trøste de sørgende, støtte de fattige, opmuntre de modløse, oplyse sjæle i mørke, henvise syndere til Kristus og indprente i menneskenes hjerter, at Guds lov er bindende.