DEVOTION TO MISSIONS.
A REMARKABLE CASE. BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, March. 11.. ' The Baptist Missionary Society repeal a remarkaible case of a would-be missioner, who was rejected for seryice in the Congo owing to ill-health. Ho decided instead to go into business and devote bis profits to the society. This was a. decade ago, >and he haw already/given £25,000. He was twenty-five years old when the doctor refused to pass him. He said: “I have £75 loose money at the present moment, and I will give it. A s T can not work mysel f the money shall work for me/’ Though lie began. business without any capital, the nefct year he gave £4BO, the third year £IOOO. the sixth year £3OOO, and the tenth £4908. , . Tn the year of his marriage his subscription was £3963, and the man wrote saying that probably his subsequent gifts would not be so large. A« a matter of fact his next donation increased. Tn order to live the man pays himself a salary, the books are audited, and the society benefits to the last penny of the profits.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 March 1925, Page 5
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185DEVOTION TO MISSIONS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 March 1925, Page 5
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