True Economy by Central Protestant

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 17, 1878

True Economy.

By Central Protestant

We have yet to hear of the first actual sufferer who has habitually, liberally and systematically devised of his means to the cause of God. It is a dreary thought that the means of support in time of old age are safer in a bank of deposit than if loaned on the promise of God, and yet men repeat, and will to the end of time, the sad mistake. But what have we to say of those who so successfully, and for years, kept up the appearance of poverty, and whose better circumstances were only revealed in the fact of their loss in the bank failure? Only this: “Be sure your sin will find you out.” Of course, this sentiment can apply to none but those who did actually pretend to be poor—poorer than they were—that they might fortify themselves with credit in bank; and the mere fact of having been a depositor, in the absence of the attending circumstances, subjects no one to be classified unfavorably.—Central Protestant.