MONEY AKr> THE KIKGBOM. Mo 



when I have amassed wealth, I desire money that I 

 may do good with it; but I will not give now, that I 

 may give the more largely in the future." That is the 

 pit in which many have perished. If a man is growing 

 large in wealth, nothing but constant and generous 

 giving can save him from growing small in soul. In 

 determining the amount of his gifts and the question 

 whether he should impair his capital, or to what extent, 

 a man should never lose sight of a distinct and intelli- 

 gent aim to do the greatest possible good in a life-time. 

 Each must decide for himself what is the wisest, the 

 highest, use of money ; and we need often to remind our- 

 selves of the constant tendency of human nature to sel- 

 fishness and self-deception. 



THE PRINCIPLE NOT ACCEPTED. 



The principle which has been stated and briefly applied, 

 and which is as abundantly sustained by reason as it is 

 clearly taught in the Scriptures, is not accepted by the 

 Christian Church. There are many noble gifts and noble 

 givers ; but they only help us to demonstrate that great 

 multitudes in the church have not yet learned the first 

 principles of Christian giving. There were, in 1890, 

 13,411,000 1 members of Evangelical Protestant churches 

 in the United States. The accompanying table gives 

 their contributions to home missions - for the fiscal year 

 closing in 1890. 



1 New York Independent, July 31,1890. The religious statistics of the Elev- 

 enth Census are not yet available, but as those of the Independent and of 

 the Census were compiled by the same authority, Rev. H. K. Carroll, D. D., 

 the former, which are used in this division, are presumably reliable. 



^ In " home missions " are included in this instance the ordinary domestic 

 missions, mission church building, work among the IMormons, New Mexi- 

 cans, colored people, Indians and Chinese in the United States and the work 

 of the missionary department of the denominational publishing societies. 

 Of course city missions are "' home missions," but the city missionary work 

 of local churches is not included because it is impossible to get anything 

 more than fragmentary statistics concerning it. 



The accompanying table includes only 11,889,427 of the evangelical church 

 membership in the United States in 1890. But the remainder is made up of 

 colored people (600,000) and foreigners who give very little to missions, and 



