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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 26, 1885

Works Both Ways.

As a rule, those who pay nothing toward church work have no interest in it. We do not mean merely that they pay nothing because they care nothing. The converse is true also. They care nothing because they pay nothing. One way to get people interested in the congregation's affairs is to get them to contribute. It secures their interest. What costs them something concerns them, and if it were only because it costs them something. The same is true, also, of missions, etc. Those who contribute nothing are not likely to inquire about them. The consciousness that these are our institutions, and that the work done is our work, is awakened adequately only when they have cost something. And when we recognize them as ours, and learn to rejoice in the prosperity of our work, we give more freely and more liberally and more cheerfully.—Lutheran Standard.