FINANCES IN THE KANSAS CONFERENCE.
By Smith Sharp
THE reports for the quarter ending Dec. 31, are all received excepting one. That one should be sent immediately. There can be no excuse as blanks were sent out several days before the expiration of the quarter, envelops properly directed for the return of the report were also sent. The reports as received show a remittance to the treasurer from all the churches excepting one. That church contains more than twenty members. The S. B. treasurer in that church has done his duty in promptly returning a blank if he could not collect any money; but have he and the elder of that church done their duty in trying to have the members pay what they have pledged? Some one has failed, and it strikes me that all have, or a blank need not be sent. One other church containing less than twice as many members as this one has paid more than all the rest of the churches put together. That church carries out the tithing system. If every Seventh-day Adventist in Kansas would do this (and God requires nothing less), our Conference would not only be self-sustaining, but there would be money to put into the General Conference fund. Brethren and sisters, do you not think if the apostle Paul were living in a Conference where there were eighteen churches, and one of them were to pay more than all the rest, he would say to it, “I mean not that other men be eased and ye burdened. But by an equality”? 1 Cor. 8:13, 14. When will we all do our duty?