Money: A Popular Exposition [Sermons].
by Thomas Binney (9780217789295)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CONSCIENTIOUS SPENDING, SAVING, AND GIVING. 277 these call for money, and every Christian entrusted with it is bound to give of it to these objects. Now, just as a steward, servant, or agent in any secular concern has to feel that his mind is his master's, as well as his hands, and that his attention, thought, tact, talent, should be vigorously and faithfully given to the interests of his employer; so, we say, the Christian Stewardship of money, demands, on the part of God's servant, in respect to every form of its use and disposal, the exercise of reflection; a reference to conscience; the recollection of responsibility to God; attention to the appeals of humanity as addressed to the ear of justice and love. Everything is to be weighed as in the balances of the sanctuary; a decision formed; and then energy, skill, schemes and plans wisely constructed, prudential limitations or beneficent liberality as may seem best. Spending, saving, giving or lending, all being done so as best to meet what may be felt to be the Master's will, and what may best evince at once the wisdom and the fidelity of his servant. Again: in proportion to the trust confided to a steward, much may be left to his intelligence and honour as to the manner in which he may discharge his obligations. Instead of stringent rules and specific prescriptions regulating his procedure, the nature and end of his office may be defined, but in carrying it out he may have to be "a law untohimself." Now, this is precisely the case as to the Christian Stewardship of money. God has given no precepts definitely regulating expenditure. He has not said how much or how little is to be saved. He has not required that any specific per centage on property or income, is imperatively to be laid aside to be given away. Nor, with ...

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