The True Principle of Donation
The true principle of donation to a cause is tersely stated in the following item from the San Francisco Chronicle: "The courts have decided that the property accumulated in Zion City does not belong to Dowie. This is a sensible conclusion, no matter what quibbles may have been raised to support the opposite contention. When people become so fanatical as to imagine that they will lay up treasures in heaven by parting with their worldly goods on earth, they generally retain enough common sense to realize that it is the cause and not its agent which will give them their celestial boost, consequently it is fair to assume that their donations are to the organization or church, and not to the man who passes around the hat."