The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline

Confidence Restored

As order was established in the ministry, separating from the body those who had abused the liberalities of the brethren, confidence in the work was fully restored. When calls were made for money to purchase tents, for tent-meeting and laborers’ expenses, for a power press and engine, for a book fund, etc, there were liberal responses. The work advanced so rapidly that at the close of 1857 the number of Seventh-day Adventists had doubled, and the office property of the Review and Herald had increased from seven hundred dollars to five thousand dollars. COOD 104.3

This, in kind, seemed like the zeal and enthusiasm of Israel in the wilderness, at the time of the building of the tabernacle, when their gifts which they brought “was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.” Exodus 36:7. When this structure was erected there was a continual expense for the general offerings of the tabernacle, and for the support of those who gave themselves entirely to the service, so the Lord introduced to his people his plan for securing means for this purpose. COOD 105.1