Beneficence

Instructions in, A church was much embarrassed by a debt of three thousand dollars, which successive pastors tried to raise but failed, because of the insufficient subscription of the leading rich member. A new pastor, knowing the key of the situation, took “Systematic Benificence,” by Rev. J. Ashworth, to this man and secured his promise to read it.

The result was that the rich man came to his pastor and said: “I feel as though I had not done all I ought to do about that church debt; if you will write a subscription paper, I will sign, and will go around with you, and I guess we can remove it from the property.” The minister drew up the subscription, and he, who had on former occasions put down one hundred dollars, now subscribed one thousand. With this example twenty-five hundred was soon raised, and the rich man increased his gift to fifteen hundred dollars, the result of instruction in duty.