Hints to the Poor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 28, 1871

Hints to the Poor.

THOSE who are struggling with adverse circumstances, may find some encouragement in the following experience. Doubtless many are now following the course here spoken of; we trust it may be with equally happy results.

Sr. B. M. Hibbard writes from Lenawee Co., Mich.: While reading the list of letters in a late REVIEW from those unable to pay, my mind was carried back some ten or twelve years when money was scarce and I could get no work. I fell behind on my paper some four or five dollars. I wrote to the Office that I could not get along without the paper, neither could I think of taking it without paying for it; but if they would continue it, I would pay the first money I could get. I knew they needed the money; but where I was to get the work to earn it I did not know. I felt distressed over it, and in tears I went to the Lord and asked him to open the way for me to get work so I could pay for my paper. I believe the Lord heard my prayer; for in a short time all the work came in that I could do. I paid up for my paper, and bought most all the different books that have been published since, and have had but one dollar except my own earnings. I can say I love the truth. The cause of God lies near my heart. I would I had hundreds to give where I have only dollars to help the cause. Every one that can, should make an effort to help himself; by so doing, others are helped. What is due the Lord and his cause should always be paid first. If we fully trust the Lord as he would have us, our necessity will be his opportunity to help us.