Children Earning Their Own Gifts for Benevolence

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, January 29, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 5

Children Earning Their Own Gifts for Benevolence

The child that gives of his own earnings to the Lord’s work, receives a far better lesson in true benevolence than one who depends upon his parents or others to furnish the money for such gifts, as he calls for it. It is wise, therefore, to encourage children to earn in various ways whatever they wish to give into the Sabbath-school or church treasury. In many places it is quite common for children to plant corn, take care of it, gather the crop, sell it, and use the money for benevolent purposes. A small school in Chester Co., Pa., recently sent a contribution to the missionary work of the American Sunday-school Union, given by the children from their own earnings gained in this way.—S. S. World.