THE LORD AS A PARTNER by W. W. Eastman

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 1, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 22.

THE LORD AS A PARTNER.

By W. W. Eastman

SAID a brother to me a short time ago: "We raised the best crop of Irish potatoes last year we ever raised in our lives, and I'll tell you why. When we planted them we counted the rows and set apart the tenth as tithe. In the fall we dug and sold them at a good price."

Said the brother: "We used from the nine-tenths all summer, and when we dug them in the fall we were surprised to find such a large yield. The neighbors told us they would rot, and that we had better sell them, but we decided to keep them, and did so. Out of twenty bushels we lost none."

This brother will this year tithe his whole crop in the same way. Out of sixty acres of wheat six acres will be set apart as tithe. The same plan will be followed with his large crop of cotton and corn; and who that knows the Lord can doubt the result? Taking the Lord in as partner in his farming business he claims His protection. Brethren, is it not time for all of God's people thus to show their faith in the Lord their God and be protected by His mighty power from the pests and pestilences that are already abroad in the land? The Lord is ready to do His part. Are you ready to do yours? O brethren, why should the world say any longer, "Where is their God?"—W. W. Eastman, in Southwestern Union Record.