Self-Support

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 14, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 24.

Self-Support. — Discussing this subject in the Indian Witness, Rev. C. B. Ward, of Shelandu, says: "For more than twenty years I have fully believed that India is better able to support Christianity, that blesses, than heathenism, in which there are no compensations. From the most careful and oft-repeated investigation, I am left no room to doubt that heathenism costs the poorest of its devotees two tithes of all that ever comes to him, in cash, or kind, and in the majority of cases much more than this."

He adds that in thirty years he has never known a Christian to lose by tithing for Christ's sake, while he has known many who were wonderfully prospered of God both in body and soul by so doing.