A WISE STEWARD by James White

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 29, 1858

A WISE STEWARD.

By James White

BROTHER —— keeps a few hundred dollars by him in gold, or where he can get it to use, when it is needed. He has many applications to let it out for large interest, but will not let it. Since the "hard times" not a few, and some of them brethren, have tried their best to hire this brother's means to help them out of worldly embarrassments; but they have failed. Steady to his purpose, this brother has kept on the Lord's altar that which he devoutly placed thereon. He has, therefore, had his fives, and tens, ready to hand to the messengers who have called at his door, and besides, having placed about seven hundred dollars in the Office building, and presses, and type, he has been ready during the "hard times" to lend to the Office five hundred more.

Now there are scores of brethren among us who hold more property than this brother, who have placed their means in lands, or have put it out at interest. They cannot sell to advantage these times, neither can they call in their money. Preachers labor with them, but they cannot even pay their traveling expenses, to say nothing of their clothes, and their family expenses at home. Satan has arranged matters for these unfaithful servants to suit him, and now exults as the cause of Christ bleeds. It is our solemn conviction that no brother, who is worth two or three thousand dollars, should suffer himself in a position where he cannot put his hand on one or two hundred dollars at any time. J. W.