p. 72 | Not Hard Times by H. A. St. John

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 1, 1877

Not Hard Times.

By H. A. St. John

I IMAGINE that many persons upon reading the above title will be disposed at once to contradict it; but wait for my meaning, please. Just now “hard times” is the cry everywhere, and I am satisfied that it is made an excuse for slackness in paying honest debts, and more especially those higher obligations, our pledges and dues to the treasury of the Lord. Brethren will let their S. S. pledges lag, and lag, and lag, month after month, until the entire year has gone by, and still this duty of immense consequence lags. Oh! how long? I am extremely anxious to have every S. S. treasurer in Ohio write me as soon as the church he serves have squared up all their S. S. for 1876. Who will be the first to report? I am persuaded that in nine cases out of ten, hard times is not the real excuse for the failure. What then? do you ask? Answer, NEGLECT.

H. A. ST. JOHN.