Systematic Benevolence.
By James White
HERE two ideas are given; first, benevolence, and second, system. The plan adopted by our people generally embraces both these ideas, while some act upon a plan of their own, which carries out only benevolence on a small scale. These do not give in their property. Men worth from $2000 to $4000, pay only from ten to twenty-five cents per week, which is only about one third of what they should pay, and of what their brethren do pay who come up to the plan. This is often not so much the fault of the church as it is of the messengers who first introduced the subject to the church. And we would suggest that it might be better for such messengers not to have anything to do in establishing Systematic Benevolence, unless they can introduce fully the plan which embraces both benevolence and system, establishing equality among all our brethren.
JAMES WHITE.