Question Answered by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 8, 1879

Question Answered.

By Editor

CAN a church of Seventh-day Adventists grant a letter of commendation to a member who does not pay his S. B. pledge?

INQUIRER.

No; the Lord commands us to pay our vows; he says he will require it at our hands, and we cannot honestly keep back that which the Lord claims as his own. The following on the same subject we clip from the last number of the Evangel of San Francisco:—

'What would you do with a member of your church abundantly able, but entirely unwilling to give anything toward the church debt, or the current expenses?'

'We would exclude him if we could get votes enough.'