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Show USE AND ABUSE OF BLESSINGS. 327 Let us hold before our mind the miser. If the people of this community feel as though they wanted the whole world to themselves, hate any other person to possess anything, and would hoard up their property, and place it in a situation where it would not benefit either themselves or the community, they are just as guilty as the man who* steals my property. You may inquire- " What should be done with such a character ?" Why, CUT HIM OFF FEOM THE CHUECH. I WOuld disfellowship a man who had received liberally from the Lord, and refused to put it out to usury. We know this is right. I recollect well the days brother Grant was telling of, when it was so hard to raise fifty dollars for brother Joseph. I also remember we had a man for trial before the high council, a man who had plenty of money, and refused to loan it, or use it for the advancement of the cause of truth. He would not put his money out to usury. I was going into the council when he was making his plea, and he wept and sobbed. His name was Isaac McWithy,"a man about fifty-three years of age. I knew him when he lived on his farm in York State. He told them, in his plea, what he had done for the cause, that he had always been a Christian, and had done so much for the churches, and for the priests, and been so liberal since he had been in this church, which was between three and four years. Some of the brethren said- "Brother McWithy, how much do you suppose you have ever given for the support of the Gospel ?" The tears rolled down his cheeks, and he said, " Brethren, I believe I have given away in my lifetime two hundred and fifty dollars." I spake out and said, " If I could not preach as many months each year in this kingdom as you have been years in this Church, and give no more |