A Matter of Conscience

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 9, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 42, No. 26.

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A Matter of Conscience.

The following furnishes a hint that ought to be of use in many places:—
Once the pastor of a church in England was requested to go up to London, and try to raise funds to meet a pressing debt. Before starting, he called together the leading men of his church, and said:—
“Now, I shall be asked whether we have conscientiously done all that we could for the removal of the debt; what answer am I to give? Brother So-and-so, can you in conscience say that you have given all you can?”
“Why, sir,” he replied, “if you come to conscience, I don’t know that I can.”
The same question was put to a second, and a third, and so on, and similar answers were returned, until the whole sum required was subscribed, and there was no need to send the pastor to London at all.