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PULPIT INGENUITY

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 2, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 30, No. 3.

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PULPIT INGENUITY.

A PREACHER in the neighborhood of Blackfriars, London, not undeservedly popular, had just finished an exhortation strongly recommending the liberal support of a very meritorious institution. The congregation was numerous, and the chapel was crowded to excess. The discourse being finished, the plate was about to be handed around to the respective pews, when the preacher made this short address to the congregation: “From the sympathy I have witnessed in your countenances, and the strict attention you have honored me with, there is only one thing I’m afraid of, that some of you may feel inclined to give too much. Now, it is my duty to inform you that justice, though it is not pleasant, should always be a prior virtue to generosity; therefore, as you will all be called upon in your respective pews, I wish it to be thoroughly understood that no person will think of putting anything into the plate who cannot pay his debts!” It need not be added that this advice produced an overflowing collection.