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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, December 31, 1867

VERY BENEVOLENT.—Mrs. A. was a church member; she thought herself very benevolent; she gave to almost every cause. We shall see how benevolent she was. She gave six dollars for a pocket handkerchief, and having half a dollar left after the purchase, dropped it into the box for “foreign missions.” She gave forty dollars for a crape shawl, and two dollars the same day for “domestic missions;” she gave ten dollars for a pair of ear-rings, and a quarter of a dollar to the “tract society;” three hundred dollars she expended on a fashionable party when her daughter Amelia “came out,” and fifty dollars went out toward repairing the church and paying the pastor. Her elegant cut-velvet hat cost fifteen dollars—she paid fifty cents toward a new Sunday School library. She gave three dollars for Eliza Anna’s wax doll, and one dollar toward educating a young pupil in Africa. Will God be satisfied with the driblets which chance to remain in the Christian’s purse, after every elegant taste has been satisfied, and that too, when the world is perishing?