p. 128 | SYSTEMATIC BENEVOLENCE by A. Smith

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, February 19, 1880.

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 8

SYSTEMATIC BENEVOLENCE.

By A. Smith

AN EXPERIMENT.

Some of our people complain that they do not understand our present method of systematic benevolence, and, therefore, they do not practically indorse it.

For the benefit of such, I would suggest that a fund be created by donations, from which all such persons shall be paid, in gold and silver, a sum just equal to the value of one-tenth of their income for one month, each person to determine for himself the ratio of his dividend, and that, for the same time, no S. B. will be expected of them in return.

At the end of the first week of trial, every soul would doubtless know the exact amount he should receive.

A. Smith.