How to Make it Much

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 6, 1866

How to Make it Much.

A SHOEMAKER being asked how he contrived to give so much, he replied that it was easily done by obeying St. Paul's precept in 1 Cor. xvi, 2: “Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him.” “I earn,” says he, “one day with another, about one dollar a day, and I can, without inconvenience to myself or family, lay up five cents of this sum for charitable purposes; the amount is thirty cents a week. My wife takes in sewing and washing, and earns something like two dollars a week, and she lays by ten cents of that. My children each of them earn a shilling or two, and are glad to contribute their penny, so that altogether we lay by us in store forty cents a week. And if we have been unusually prospered, we contribute something more. The weekly amount is deposited every Sunday morning in a box kept for that purpose, and reserved for future use. Thus, by these small earnings, we have learned that it is more blessed to give than to receive. The yearly amount saved in this way is about twenty-five dollars, and I distribute this among the various benevolent societies, according to the best of my judgment.”