p. 7 | MONEY, MONEY, MONEY! by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 6, 1904

"MONEY, MONEY, MONEY!"

By Editor

CALLS for money to carry on legitimate missionary enterprises are a great blessing to that class of people who are in the habit of complaining about such calls. The complaint itself is evidence that such people think the cause of the Gospel ought to go on without their means. So if they were not called upon periodically, or urged occasionally, to donate to the work, they would have little or no treasure in the bank of heaven. Then they would be begging when the great harvest comes, and have nothing. Really they ought to praise the Lord for the missionary calls made by those who have the conduct of the work in hand.

However, the many formal calls for means, together with the time and expense of making such calls, ought not to be necessary. If the professed disciples of Christ were faithful in returning to the Lord His own; if they were simply honest in bringing in the tithes and offerings due to the Lord, there never need be a single call for means. There would be no sensitive ears to be offended by human calls for the necessary capital to carry on the work. No, the divine call, "Son, give Me thine heart," would be all-sufficient; for the heart and the treasure go together.

Moreover, when men voluntarily go and pay their debts, the creditor is spared the labor and expense of sending out collectors. If this labor and expense were spared in the Lord's cause, it would add much to the sums that go directly to the work, besides saving the oft-repeated money cry, which is so offensive to many who profess to follow Him whose voluntary sacrifice comprised all, even life itself.