The Lord's Portion Stored on the Lord's-Day, a Hand-Book of Sacred Finance

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1865 Excerpt: ... APPENDIX B. To say nothing of Roman Catholic or of foreign Protestant churches, British churches practise weekly offerings in different forms and degrees. In Scotland generally the offering is a small sum placed in a salver, held or presided over by an elder at the church door. In Ireland often the offering is gathered from pew to pew during the service. In Wales it is sometimes collected by the deacons or elders. In England it is gathered in all these ways, but most frequently by boxes fixed at church and chapel doors. Large increase of funds is thus being realized in every direction. What is required to give to all these methods permanency and power is a Sabbath storing of the Lord's portion. What a vitality and power would individual Sabbath storing for God give to all these methods! Multitudes of poor churches would, as some have already done, rise from poverty and weakness to comparative wealth and power. Richer churches, now too frequently satisfied to maintain respectable self-support and aid a few objects, would realize large funds, more adequately to overtake the soulthrilling wants of neglected millions. APPENDIX C. How can a ministry, apparently self-seeking and mercenary, win the confidence and hearing of the world? Yet till needful funds are cheerfully provided by Christians, how are ministers to be free from aspersions of selfishness, while compelled to be frequent solicitors on behalf of numerous claims. Who can believe that the human elements would have been so powerful, or that the divine Spirit would have wrought so effectually with them, if apostles had often concluded their addresses with appeals for money, as ministers are now often required to do? Frequent applications for money from the pulpit lead multitudes of the industrial class...