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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 8, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 35, No. 7.

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A TEST APPLIED.

A correspondent of one of our religious exchanges says: “I once heard a conversation between a church member and an infidel. After arguments were urged at some length on both sides, the infidel observed to his friend that he might as well drop the subject of conversation, “for,” said he, “I do not believe a single word 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, for the spread of Christianity,—such as the building of churches, foreign and domestic missions,—as much as your last Durham cow cost. Why, sir, if I believed one-half what you say you believe, I would make the church my rule for giving, and the farm the exception.