p. 395 | Giving a Tenth

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 26, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 25.

Giving a Tenth.

WHEN all Christians offer the tenth of their incomes in worship as regularly as they pray or praise, then the Lord's treasury will supply the wants of his servants.

Some men are lovingly taught by providential dispensations, and we doubt not for the good of all. A layman in Indiana began to give to the Lord his portion when he began to work for himself. He found little difficulty so long as he made but little. But during the war he became partner in a hominy mill, which was kept busy night and day, so that his income was over two hundred dollars a day. Now came the trial. Shall I give over twenty dollars a day? The sum seemed so great, and his necessities and desires so growing and important, that he resolved that it was too much. The very night that his covetousness mastered him, he awoke to see his mill in flames! He lost the mill, but learned a most valuable lesson. He has never had any trouble about giving one-tenth since. Had this man known that circumstances cannot justify us in forsaking the principle of honesty to the Lord, he would have been able to resist the temptation. It is not every one that has his hominy mill burned, but such a disaster would be worth more to many Christians than millions of dollars.—Sel.