Giving Before Spending

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 27, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 17.

Giving Before Spending

"They first took out their benevolences before they spent their money for anything." This is the explanation given by Mr. Jeffery, in a letter on another page, of the fact that the poor Christians in Madura give so much for Christian work. Is not this just the reverse of the prevailing custom among Christians? Are not benevolences ordinarily left till the last, to be regulated by what remains after other needs or luxuries are provided for? What a change it would make in the offerings for Christian work at home and abroad if a due proportion of income were first taken for benevolences, and other expenses were regulated by what remained!—Missionary Review.