p. 11 | In Debt to the Lord

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 19, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 16.

In Debt to the Lord

In all of our churches is to be found a class of people who can not contribute anything toward the running expenses of the church and special funds because they are in debt, and feel that the money they hold is not their own. Yet if these good people are observed closely, it will be noted that this objection does not seem to have much weight with them when they want some delicacy for the table, or when they enter the confectionery or ice-cream parlor, or when there is to be an excursion, or if there is something special in town in the way of a lecture, or when they want some desirable article of dress. When the desire is strong upon them they forget for the time that they are in debt. How can people afford all these things when they are in debt? Isn't it strange that they think so suddenly and powerfully about it when God's call for funds comes to them? And, after all, are not the most of us in debt to the Lord?—Zion's Herald.