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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · January 7, 1868

I ONCE heard a conversation between a churchmember and an infidel. After arguments were urged at considerable length on both sides, the infidel observed to his friend that they might as well drop the subject of conversation; “for,” said he, “I do not believe a word that you say;” and, more than this, I am satisfied that you do not really believe it yourself; for, to my certain knowledge, you have not given, for the last twenty years, as much for the spread of Christianity—such as the building of churches, foreign and domestic missions, &c.,—as your last Durham cow cost.” “Why, sir, if I believed one-half of what you say you believe, I would make the church my rule for giving, and my farm the exception!”