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 The "Christian Stewardship" Series. No. 2. 
 
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 HOW IT WORKS 
 
 : : By : : 
 
 Rev. S.^Chadwick 
 
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HOW IT WORKS. 
 
 By Rev. S. CKadwicR. 
 
 THERE is a close connection between what a 
 man gives and what he gets. GoH calls for the 
 w/to/e tithe, not for a tithe. There are some 
 Christian people who think it is sufficient if they give 
 a tenth, but such people are not equal to a decent Jew. 
 The Jew gives a tenth after the first-fruits of his 
 increase, and every third year a tenth for the poor ; 
 and probably he would give one-fifth or one-fourth of 
 all he possessed. There is no definite sum laid down 
 in the New Testament, but the command of the Old 
 Testament is intensified and enlarged in the New. 
 
 The principle of giving the first-fruits to God is 
 recognized in St. Paul's epistles. I believe people 
 who give much lose much of the blessing of it because 
 they give contrary to the principles laid down in the 
 Bible. They often give as a result of impulse or 
 rivalry and competition. God has never let go His 
 right to the things material. 
 
 But having settled whether it is to be a tenth or a 
 quarter, or whatever it be, remember that the propor- 
 tion is the Lord's and not ours ; and whosoever will 
 thus honor God with His substance, in return God 
 will honor him with prosperity. I will call the wit- 
 nesses once again. I can furnish anyone with the 
 names and addresses of all the cases I mention. In 
 the north of England two brothers went into business. 
 They were bom in a very small cottage, and had 
 
nothmg to s art business with. But they were enthu- 
 mstjc m rehgion. They were determJed to give to 
 he Lord, and they made an arrangement tha^the 
 Lord Jesus Christ should be a partner in the once,^ 
 
 ol all profits. They so gave and prospered. The 
 first year they had a nice lot of money to give The 
 
 TCtr "'^ "^^ ^'■" "«'- The third yLar 
 they had agam more. At the fourth year the profits 
 were so great that they went into four figures Then 
 they thought that the proportion to be «t asid^'f" 
 God was too much to give to charity. Always te 
 susp,uous when you change your terms. It w^ f„ 
 
 b.g lot they divided it, took half for themselves and 
 gave the other half away The next yea^ on tSe 
 
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 a copper. And before the end of six months of the 
 following year they came to a crisis 
 
 selve's' Tth^'r "" °r '^^' ^"^ '<"''«<' 'hem. 
 selves in the office to face the situation And 
 
 Wilham said to James. "We have never „^ 
 since we robbed God. The first chaise on the^u^ 
 ness must be to pay back what we have S" 
 They knelt down and prayed and made this pronSe 
 Before the end of the year the business pulled roZd 
 Strange enough, after some years, they made a simt 
 ar mistake, and had a similar experience. tX 
 hey are amongst the wealthiest Christian pe-ple in 
 the land. They prospered as they honored G^ Z 
 
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 their 
 
 giving. 
 
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 wii?mTn!f ""t*" "■*" '■" ""^ ""'^ °f England (I 
 newcastle) He told a man that he went into busi- 
 give a third of all he made. He went on like that 
 
 third H '*'"' '"°"«''- "« ''-^ °" ^P«nding a 
 third and g,vmg two-thirds. As he felt his family 
 
 had quite enough, he now stops in business and gives 
 thl Lme TK^'I"' '^°°"^' °'^»^°'^- *" »>™-t 
 from Mr Wooley. That seems a large amou«^ 
 g've. But unless a man cultivates a habit of systema- 
 
 Zr'l^ "L *"' l"" ""' "■""'• '° e-'''. he will give 
 ittle when he is rich. The most striking case cfme 
 
 to my knowledge in Leeds, during the time of the 
 Armenian atrocities. A man wrote me, and sent £, 
 for the sufferers. I did not know him. I did not 
 ^ther ,o find him out, and I did not hear from him 
 again tor two years. 
 
 Last year my treasurer rang me up on the tele- 
 phone, and said we must find £6,000 before Christ- 
 mas or we should be in a hole. We had a week of 
 prayer On the Monday night I received a letter 
 from this gentleman saying he wanted to see me 
 He gave me all directions as to the tram I should 
 
 / 't!^ ]^' '''' °^ ^' ^ P"* °" ^y Sunday suit 
 and walked down the street he named, trying to find 
 the house of a man who would give ;^i25. I could 
 find nothing but workmen's cottages. A policeman 
 5aid Are you looking for anybody?" I said "I 
 am looking for a man named So-and-so." He said 
 

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 ' -'" r Cttan^ I'l"'"^ ^" ^'^^ ^'^-d house " 
 '" a mansion " uT ^^'^ '" ^ ^°«age, but al 
 about here • 1 '*'*^' " ^^erc is ,! 7 "**" 
 
 J'oung fe,w came •„ "1?"' '° ^ "is mothe a 
 --ed ,«, ,,,„ ^^l He «o,d n,e four years ago he 
 °n h.s own account. Be,?» *"' '"'o business 
 
 r^Va,?:r°"-x.:er:-,^^^^^^^^ 
 B^^^:^4]r^ -0-- 
 
 «"« suc.ess whici, h^cr" ^° y°'' account for 
 "^'d to his wife "V "' '° >">"'" The 11 
 «"P'y th:s, tha le h^ve :"T" ^"^ -^ " "is 
 ;"; Profi.s shall be J.^VS^h"" '"^ «"' ha o 
 
 That ,s their explanation for '^f"^ "'" P™^Per us." 
 T^elT °''""'""S™°neyatsuch 
 
 --Pe^- .ho introduced n,e to the Cut, o. 
 
systematic giving was a widow woman, who was my 
 landlady. She had been very poor. She was talk- 
 ing about this matter, and told me her income at one 
 time was only ten shillings a week, and she gave a 
 t^nth then. I said, " How did you manage it ?" She 
 said, " When I got my ten shillings, I put them on 
 the Bible in a row, and I took the best looking of the 
 ten out, and put that in the Lord's box. Then I had 
 nine shillings left." I said, "How did you live?" 
 She said, " I do not know, unless it was this : I be- 
 lieve when I had taken one shilling for the Lord, the 
 Lord made every penny of the nine shillings go as 
 far as twopence." 
 
 The best woman in my cl.urch is a washerwoman. 
 Last May we were talking about our Extension 
 Scheme, and we wanted money. She said, "Mr. 
 Chadwick, I do not think I can do any more, and I 
 am troubled." I said, " ! don't think you ought to 
 give more, but go and pray about it ; and pray for 
 us, and we shall be content, and don't you trouble." 
 But she said, "I want to give something. I wash 
 four days a week, and I get two shillings a day and 
 my meat, and I really feel I cannot give more," On 
 the Saturday she came with a bright, beaming face, 
 and said, " I can help you." " What can you do ? " 
 I said. She said, " Mrs. So-and-so wants me to wash 
 for her on a Friday, and I am going to wash every 
 Friday for God," Every Friday she washes for the 
 Lord, and brings the two shillings and puts them into 
 the fund, and she says Friday is the best day in the 
 week. She is certainly the happiest looking woman 
 
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 in Leeds. She honors the Lord, and the Lord fills 
 her with His presence. 
 
 When in Leeds, I appealed to the men in financial 
 difficulties, and I said, " Here is the way out of your 
 difficulties, and your cure for .bad times ; adopt this 
 Scriptural, reasonable method; honor God with all 
 your increase in all your business." There was a 
 man there who had given an intimation to his lawyer 
 to call his creditors together on the following week. 
 On the Sunday night he called on the lawyer, and 
 told him he had better not do it. He went home to 
 put into practice this new gospel. On the following 
 Sunday I got a letter containing ten shillings. He 
 said he could not trust liimself to wait to the end of 
 the month, but he would divide his takings now, at 
 the end of the first week. He sent ten shillings the 
 second week, and fifteen the third week, and a sover- 
 eign the fourth week. Then he told me the whole 
 aspect of affairs had changed, and that he had taken 
 more money in the month than he had ever taken in 
 six months in his business previously. 
 
 Examine these facts in the light of Scripture and 
 experience. I only ask you to try it If your wages 
 are regular, and come in week by week, it is as simple 
 as A B C. Put away what you resolve to give to God 
 each week. If you are in business, make arrange- 
 ments in your book-keeping, and honor God by your 
 giving, by taking Him into partnership, and as surely 
 as there is a God in heaven His promise will be 
 fulfilled.