GIVING OR RELINQUISHING by Christian Work

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 28, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 42.

GIVING OR RELINQUISHING.

By Christian Work

"So MR. JONES gave $500 to missions at his death, did he?" The question was asked of a city pastor the other day. And the answer was, "I did not say he gave it, but that he left it; perhaps I should have more explicitly said that he relinquished $500 because he could no longer hold it." The distinction needs to be kept in mind. One gives only when living; he relinquishes at death. There is plenty of Scripture commendation for giving, but none that we recall for relinquishing what the cold, stiffened fingers of death can no longer hold.

—Christian Work.