p. 131 | A WELL-MERITED REBUKE

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 27, 1876

A WELL-MERITED REBUKE.

A certain writer administers a sharp rebuke to those persons who are lavish in everything but charity, and says, “I have seen a woman professing to love Christ more than the world, clad in a silk dress costing $75; make-up and trimming of same, $40; bonnet, or apology for one, $35; velvet mantle, $150; diamond ring, $500; watch, chain, ring, and other trappings, $300; total, $1,100—all hung upon one frail, dying worm. At a meeting in behalf of homeless wanderers in New York, I have seen her wipe her eyes upon an expensive embroidered handkerchief at the story of their sufferings, and when the contribution box came round, take from a well-filled port-monnaie, of costly workmanship, twenty-five cents to aid the society to promote their welfare.”