Help What You Can

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 20, 1870

Help What You Can.

—No matter what our condition or circumstances, there will always be some ways in which we can help giving aid and comfort to the cause of the enemy, and we gain a great moral victory when we improve them. The following is a case in point:

“A master cooper called upon a black man in Ohio, and wished to purchase some timber. The black man asked for what purpose he wanted the timber, and received for answer:

‘I have a contract for a thousand whisky-barrels.’

‘Well, sir,’ was the prompt reply, ‘I have the timber for sale, and want the money; but no man shall buy a slave from me for that purpose.’

The cooper was indignant to meet with such stern reproof from a black man, and called him a ‘nigger.’

‘That is very true,’ mildly replied the other. ‘It is my misfortune to be a negro. I can’t help that; but I can help selling my timber to make whisky barrels, and I mean to do it.”