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by James W. Alexander

Section LXXXIII

Systematic Beneficence

The poor give more in proportion than the rich. As men grow in wealth, few of them keep up the rate of their contribution to the Cot. 8 12. f 2 Cor. 9: 8.

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Lord’s treasury; whereas they ought to increase it. He who gives ten dollars out of an income of a hundred, seldom gives ten thousand when his income rises to a hundred thousand. This evil will be avoided, if you adopt the rule of devoting a stated portion of your receipts. Such was the method recommended in a certain case by the apostle Paul: “Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.”*

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