WHAT IS SAID by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 14, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 28.

WHAT IS SAID.

By Editor

SAYS the Christian Intelligence (Reformed Church):—

"Evangelical Christians have been wont to look askance upon the Seventh-day Adventists as a body somewhat behind the other churches in intelligence and sobriety. Yet a fact was mentioned at the missionary conference held here in January last which shows that these people may well serve as a pattern in some respects to all others. They have a church at Battle Creek, Mich., composed of

1,450 working people—not a rich man among them—having an average income of $262.

"Yet their contributions to benevolent causes last year amounted to $38,000. The reason is that they are carefully indoctrinated in the principle and habit of giving a tenth of their income to the Lord's cause. Hence, recently, on the day of missions, no sermon was preached, nor was there any pleading of any kind, yet the offering amounted to $21,000. If all our churches had the same conscientious conviction deeply imbedded in their minds and hearts, surely every missionary treasury would overflow."

It might be well to state that the $21,000 did not include tithes, but was over and above the tithe in most cases. And yet we as a people are not doing for the cause of Christ anything like what we ought to do. How much does Christ mean to us?