Present Circumstances by Congregationalist

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 26, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 45.

Present Circumstances.

By Congregationalist

It is a cheap thing to say, for example, if now I were only worth $100,000 I would give $50,000 to endow such an institution. It is true of most people that they know nothing about what they would do if they were suddenly to become comparatively rich. The strong probability is that they would at the same time become parsimonious. Besides, it is of no sort of consequence what one would do under different and impossible or improbable circumstances. But it is of vast consequence, both to ourselves and others, what we now do in just the circumstances in which we are.