PROFITS FOR MISSIONS
BUSINESS MAN’S WORK. LIVING ON SALARY ALONE. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) 1 LONDON, March 11. The Baptist Missionary Society reveals a remarkable case of a would-be missioner who was rejected for service in the Congo owing to ill-health. He decided to go into business and devote all profits to the Society. This was a. decade ago. He has already given £25,000. He was 25 when the doctor refused to pass him. He said: I have £75 of loose money. I will give it. “As I cannot work myself, money shall work for me.”
Though he began business without any capital, the next year he gave £4BO, the third year £IOOO, the sixth year £3OOO, and! the tenth year £4908. In the year of his marriage his subscription was £3963. He wrote saying that probably subsequent gifts would not be so large, but the next donations, wag increased. In order to live the man pays himself a salary. His books are audited, and the Society benefits to the last penny of the profits.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10350, 13 March 1925, Page 5
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