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other income on themselves and had given to home and 

 foreign missions only one one-hundredth part of their real 

 and personal property (which would have been unspeak- 

 ably mean and unchristian) their contribution would 

 have been $130,763,000 instead of $10,695,259. For the 

 one item of uncut jewels, largely consisting of dia- 

 monds, the people of the United States in 1888 paid 

 $10,000,000; and in 1880, church-members paid out nearly 

 six times as much for sugar and molasses as for the 

 world's salvation, seven times as much for boots and 

 shoes, sixteen times as much for cotton and woolen 

 goods, eleven times as much for meat, and eighteen 

 times as much for bread. From 1880 to 1890 the aver- 

 age annual increase of the wealth of church-members was 

 $434,790,000. And this, remember, was over and above 

 all expense of living and all benevolences ! That is, the 

 average annual increase of wealth in the hands of pro- 

 fessed Christians was forty times greater than their 

 offering to missions, home and foreign. How that offer- 

 ing looks, when compared with their wealth and its 

 annual increase, may be seen on the opposite page. 



if the members of our Sunday-schools in America, 

 gave, each, one cent a Sabbath to missions, it would 

 aggregate about one-half as much as is now secured, 

 with endless writing and pleading and praying, from 

 our entire church-membership. If each of these pro- 

 fessed Christians gave five cents — the price of one cigar 

 — once a week, it would amount in a year to $35,000,000. 

 If each gave one cent every day to that which he pro- 

 fesses is the object of his life— the building of the King- 

 dom—it would amount to $49,202,000. 



Immense sums are invested freely if there is only a 

 chance of large dividends. The Times of India says 

 that "nearly $25,000,000 have been invested in search 

 for gold in India, and that not $2,500 worth of the 

 precious metal has been obtained after three years of 

 labor." Christians have opportunities to invest, and 

 with perfect security, where they will realize thirty, 

 sixty, a hundred-fold — that is three thousand, six thou- 



