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The Three-Penny Piece

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 30, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 5.

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The Three-Penny Piece

We trust that, with all our people, the temptation to feel for the smallest piece of coin when a call is made for means for the Lord’s treasury, has wholly lost its power. But if this is not the case, if any one still has to battle with that temptation in regard to his contributions to the Lord’s cause, let him read the following and be cured:—
“An English writer discourses somewhat sarcastically of that small coin, the three-penny piece. He says: ‘It is too small to fetch a flitch of bacon; it is too weak to bring home a sack of flour; it is of no use to pay a half year’s rent; so it is solemnly and sacredly set apart to the help of the Lord against the mighty.’”