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CHRISTIAN BENEVOLENCE

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 27, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 40.

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CHRISTIAN BENEVOLENCE

GIVING is as much a part of true Christian worship as praying or any other duty. The religious fervor which is cooled off by a plea for pecuniary aid to God's cause, is not very deep-seated. And one should no more expect to make one donation answer for the whole year, than he would make one prayer do for the same length of time. Systematic withholding, and fault-finding, usually go together. The following illustration is a good one:—
"A missionary declined to receive from a Karen a rupee for a whole year, instead of the pice a week which the other native Christians were giving. To be sure, a fifty-two pice would not make a rupee, and the treasury would be fuller if the rupee were accepted. But the donor would not be as much blessed. 'Don't you know,' said the missionary, 'that a door-hinge, if opened only once a year, soon comes to creaking. Open often, no creaking; give often, no croaking.'"