The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-02-27
Gives All He Makes.

z. Duke, who went West from Car
roll county, Ca, to grow up with
the country, has covenantcd to de-
vote his twenty-one nickel stores to
God.
He and his wife agreed with their
consciences three years ago to turn
the earnings of his stores to the
uses of Christianity when his savings
should amount to 100000. He then
had $4,000.
Within a year he had $4,000;
within another year his savings were
little short of s10O,0O0; last year the
sum he named was completed, and
on the first day of this year he en-
tered upon his covenant. AS he ex-
planned Wednesday morning at the
home of his brother-in-law, A. P.
Morgan, at Oakland City, he will con-
duct the twenty-one nickel stores
during the remainder of his life pure
ly in the interest of God.
Every penny earned from the
candies, the toys, the thousand and
one things of a nickel store, will be
used in the Christian church. These
stores will support missionaries,
they will pay the salaries of minis
ters, they will comfort the needy,
they will furnish the lessons Of Chris
tianity to the untaught. The nickel
stores scattered through Texas will
spread Christian influence through
out the States and to foreign lands.
Mr.. Duke married in Carroll coun-
ty years ago, and set forth for the
West to find young mans country.
With 500 he entered business. His
one-room store was the size OF
close-in modern fiat and his stock in
trade would furnish one counter of
the smallest of his twenty-one nickel
stores.
But even then he gave tenth of
his earnings to Christian work.
Bit by bit the stores grew, and
finally other nickel stores of H. q.
Dukes appeared in other Western
towns. They seemed to meet with
instant success. Wherever he es-
tablished nickel store he prospered.
And as he prospered he increased
his gifts to the church.
81 believe" he said Wednesday
morning, that these gifts were the
secret of my success. They taught
me many things. They impressed
upon me the value of money; they
convinced me of the necessity OF
method and system in all things;
they showed me how essential it is
to have more than petty interests.
cat last 1 decided that had earn
ed enough, and 1 told my wife that
whatever else I earned should be
given to the church and work of the
church. She agreed that when |
had 100000 I should stop earning
money for myself or for any one
but God, and we made covenant of
that sort. l am now keeping 1t.
Last year 1 made something over
$4,000, and 1 think that by increas-
ing the number of my stores l can
increase these earnings to $4,000
or $4,000 a year, all of which shall
be used as l have agreed.
Il am a member of the First Bap-
tist church of Dallas. I am sixty
years old and I Joined the church
at the age of thirty-fve years. Dur
ing a large part of my life / have
devoted a part of my means to the
church
when I first went West I met a
man, a lawyer, named R. L. Rudy,
who gave a tenth of his income to
church work. He gave with such
little effort and got such good from
his giving that my pastor, Mr.. Nc
Connell, and myself decided we
would do the same thing. We
we're not willing to let any one else
get more out of religion than we
did. So we also began tithtng, and
/ found that this giving to God was
the greatest experience of my life.
No man, no matter what his condi-
ton, what his responsibilities, should
give less than one-tenth to the
church. Only then can he know the
full benefits of religion.
LAS 1 made more money | gave
more. From a tenth, | Increased
nv gifts to seventh, then to fifth,
and now to all. During the first
year that 1 began Systematically CIV
ing to the church my offering
amounted to s110; second year,
s154; third, $3.50; fourth, sSS; fifth,
$3.50; sixth, s662; seventh, s556;
~;~L&b eoS0. ninth SSS6. tenth