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Pope on Giving While Living

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 7, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 37.

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Pope on Giving While Living

"I AM rich enough," said Pope to Swift. "I can afford to give away a hundred pounds a year. I would not crawl upon the earth without doing a little good. I will enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it while I live and seeing another enjoy it. When I die I should be ashamed to leave enough for a monument, if a wanting friend was above ground." That speech of Pope's was enough to immortalize him, independent of his philosophic verse.