Worthy Example by James White

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 19, 1859

Worthy Example.

By James White

THE Toronto Christian Guardian gives the account of a shoemaker who being asked how he contrived to give so much, replied: "It is easily done by obeying St. Paul's precepts, in 1 Cor. xvi, 2, 'Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him.' I earn, said he, one day with another, about a dollar a day, and I can, without inconvenience to myself or family, lay by five cents of this sum for charitable purposes; the amount is thirty cents a week. My wife takes in sewing and washing, and earns something like two dollars a week, and she lays by ten cents of that. My children each of them earn a shilling or two, and are glad to contribute their penny; so that altogether we lay by us in store forty cents a week. And if we have been unusually prospered, we contribute something more. The weekly amount is deposited every Sunday morning in a box kept for that purpose, and reserved for future use. Thus by these small earnings we have learned that 'it is more blessed to give than to receive.' The yearly amount saved in this way, is twenty-five dollars!' and I distribute among the various benevolent societies, according to the best of my judgment."

Will not the friends of Bible truth do as much to advance the Last Message? J. W.