ions thereby demanded.

6. I will regard my health, strength, life, and property, as valuable
only as instruments of advancing the kingdom of Christ; and therefore
hold them all without reserve at the call of God.

7. I will seize every opportunity for doing good by example, by
conversation, by labor, and by contribution.

8. I will daily and prayerfully consider whether the circumstances of
the age in which I live do not require of me as great sacrifices in
alms-giving as were made by the Jews in contributing two tenths of their
income to the service of the Lord.

9. In laying all my pecuniary plans, and in all my labors to carry them
into effect, I will have the glory of God uppermost in view, and
therefore make it one of my leading objects to acquire property for
distribution; being thus, according to the injunction of Paul, "not
slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord."

10. To give to charitable purposes such portion of my property as God,
by his Word and providences, seems to demand, I will deem as sacredly
incumbent upon me as to make an economical expenditure of it in the
support of myself and family.

11. For the sake of strengthening the benevolent tendencies of the
soul, I will perseveringly cherish all its generous impulses by doing or
giving as they shall dictate, so far as scripture and ability prescribe.

12. I will fix upon a system of giving which shall be made solemnly and
prayerfully in view of my circumstances and calls; in the clear light of
God's Word and of the awful retributions of the last tribunal. As to
amount and frequency of donations, I will endeavor to make them such as
I shall wish they had been, when, bowing before the great white throne,
I shall gaze into the face of my crucified and exalted Saviour; actually
participating in the fruits of his unutterable sacrifices for me.

13. Cherishing, amid the toils of gain, an abiding sense of the
strength of the selfishness of the human heart, and the consequent
dangers of acquisition, I will daily pray and strive for disinterested
benevolence as the greatest good; also for direction as to the amount of
sacrifices I ought to make; and then agreeably to my prayers, act
according to the dictates of conscience uttered in the presence of God.

14. I will frequently and at stated periods solemnly renew these or
similar resolutions.

Now, if you refuse to make these solemn resolutions your own, can you
assign an