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Faith Proved by Giving

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 6, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 38.

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Faith Proved by Giving

"I ONCE heard a conversation between a church member and an infidel. After arguments were urged at some length on both sides, the infidel observed to his friend that they might as well drop the subject of conversation; 'for,' said he, 'I do not believe a single word you say, and, more than this, I am satisfied that you do not really believe it yourself; for, to my certain knowledge, you have not given for the last twenty years as much for the spread of Christianity—such as the building of churches, foreign and domestic missions—as your last Durham cow cost. Why, sir, if I believed the one-half of what you say you believe, I would make the church my rule for giving, and my farm the exception.'"