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Coming to Conscience

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 22, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 27, No. 25.

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Coming to Conscience

COMING TO CONSCIENCE. A minister, says an exchange, was about to leave his own congregation for the purpose of visiting London, on what was by no means a pleasant errand—to beg on behalf of his place of worship. Previous to his departure, he called together the principal persons connected with his charge and said to them, "Now I shall be asked, whether we have conscientiously done all that we can for the removal of this debt; what answer am I to give? Brother so-and-so, can you in conscience say you have?" "Why, sir," he replied, "if you come to conscience, I don't know that I can." The same question he put to a second, and a third, and so on, and similar answers were returned, till the whole sum required was subscribed, and there was no longer any need of their pastor's wearing out his soul in coming to London on any such unpleasant excursion.