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GIVING WHILE IN DEBT

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 27, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 9.

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GIVING WHILE IN DEBT.

SOON after I was converted I was plunged into debt by becoming surety for another, and being obliged to pay. I found myself owing over a thousand dollars more than I possessed. I was also in bad health for twelve years. The question of giving soon came up for decision. The minister and other church expenses, the missionary cause, temperance, and other reform causes, the poor, the unfortunate, all these must be sustained by money. I was in debt deeply; my time belonged to my creditors. Could I justly use any of my earnings for benevolent causes? The Lord soon helped me to decide that His claim on me and my earnings was first, and other creditors next. So I gave to all causes which I considered to be the Lord’s, and the Lord worked wonderfully for me, and aided me to pay all my debts and to regain my health. Remember the Lord is first and all things in Him.—Selected.