Be Your Own Executor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 25, 1873

Be Your Own Executor.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Methodist furnishes the following interesting item. Here is something to think of, and an example worthy of imitation:—

I have just had a peep into a good man’s will, and to my great delight read therein a provision for the payment of $1500 annually to the Board of Church Extension, until his executors should pay over to said Board the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars. That is grand, but the best part of it remains to be told. This provision is only for security. The maker of the will designs to pay the principal during his lifetime, if he is spared a few years. God grant that he may be spared, and that continued prosperity may attend him. He has given us a good programme, which it would be well for Christian business men as far as possible to adopt. “Make your will, and then as far as possible execute it yourself.” Will the Board of Church Extension, or some other mighty enterprise, five, ten, or twenty-five thousand dollars, and pay it while you live. That is capital.