A BROTHER WHO GIVES A GREAT DEAL
Here is a letter from a good brother who seems to make giving his principal business in life. We thought it would be encouraging to the readers of the REVIEW:— Dear Brother: I received your kind letter last evening. Your appeal in behalf of the school is all right and proper. I have done and am still doing what I believe the Lord wants me to do. If I am not, I pray He will show me my duty; for I would have my will His will in all things. For some time I have been giving all it seemed to me I ought to give to the South Lancaster school,—at one time one hundred dollars, two thirds as much at another, forty dollars at another, twenty-five dollars at another, ten dollars at another, and I pledged two cents a day until Christ comes—one-half to South Lancaster Academy, and the other to missions. I have bought twelve copies of “Christ’s Object Lessons,” sold eight, and have four on hand. I have only about thirty acres of land and twelve dollars a month pension. I have given the yearly proceeds of my patch of currants and gooseberries to missions. If it shall appear that the schools need the proceeds of it more than other missions, then I will send it there. It amounts to about thirty dollars a year. My heart is in the work, to pay up and to keep free of debt in all matters. The Lord says to owe no man anything. My motto is, “Pay as you go.” I do not criticise or blame any one; but as a people we should make it a point to pay as we go. Pray for me, dear brother, that I may always walk in wisdom and keep near to my God.