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Is His Purse Converted?

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 5, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 27, No. 1.

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Is His Purse Converted?

Is His Purse Converted?—A Methodist laborer of Wesley's time, Captain Webb, when any one informed him of the conversion of a rich man, was in the habit of asking, “Is his purse converted?” Without the conversion of his purse, the good captain could give no credit to the conversion of the man. In this he agreed with Dr. Adam Clarke, who used to say, “He did not believe in the religion that cost a man nothing.”
The religion that costs a man nothing is no religion at all; and the being converted, all but the purse, is no conversion at all.