FOR THE LORD by Mother Experience

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 1, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 39.

FOR THE LORD.

By Mother Experience

TRY it. Whenever a dollar or a dime comes into your hands, lay aside a dime or a penny of it to be used strictly “in his name.” Put it in another purse. Make it a definite offering. If you have a regular salary you can easily estimate how much this will be in six months, and then you can meet your regular “dues” in proportion and always have “a little something” left for the unexpected calls that come to one for help.

You may smile, but I must tell you a bit of personal experience. “Hard times” have more than once led me to the bottom of my pocketbook, and when the Lord’s purse—where I kept my tenths—has been empty I have said, “Lord, your treasury is empty, but if you will supply mine I will replenish yours,” and I have always a sweet consciousness of a friendly compact between this Friend and myself, whereby the Head of the firm takes care that financial disaster shall not overtake us, if I do my part. And I can say to-day, after years of experience, that his promise to supply all my need—not my desire, mind you—has never failed, and his treasury is taken care of as he sees best.—Mother Experience, in Union Signal.