7. and I feel certain that the great increase which you have enjoyed, the blessings of true faith, new knowledge, and the understanding of the word, that all these will be accompanied too by the fullness and abundance of your giving.
8. I enjoin no commandments upon you, but I promote in you a like enthusiasm to that which your brethren have shown.
9. Your wealth, you well know, all that you really have, that is to say, is yours because Christ Jesus abandoned the world;
10. the way he gave up all has brought you great riches, and now is the time to show how genuine is the love which has been opened to you.
15. “He that gathered little had no lack, and he that gathered much had nothing over” (Ex. xvi. 18).
20. I praise God for this arrangement which met my own wishes in the matter.