The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-02-05
GIVES ALL He MAKES
COVENANT MADE YEARS Ago TO
BE FULFILLED

BE FULFILLED
MONEY GOES TO CHURCH
Beginning at the First of the Year
All the Earnings Of Twenty-One
Fiye-Cent Stores Of b. q. Duke In
Texas Will be Given by Him to
Charity.
The Atlanta Journal says that H.
2. Duke, who went west from Car
roll County, Ca, to grow up with
the country, has covenanted 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 q year he had $4,000;
within another year his savings were
little short Of 100000; last year the
sum he named was completed, and
on the first day Of this year he enter
ed upon his covenant. AS he explain
ed Wednesday morning at the home
of his brother-in-law, A. P. Morgan,
at Oakland City, he will conduct the
twenty-one nickel stores during the
remainder Of his life, purely in the
interest Of God.
Every penny earned from the can
dies, 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 ministers, they
will comfort the needy, they Will
furnish the lessons Of Christianity to
the untaught. The nickel stores
| scattered through Texas will spread
Christian influence throughout the
states and to foreign lands.
Nr. Duke married in Carroll Coun-
ty years ago, and set forth for the
west to find young mans country.
With 800 he entered business. His
| one-room store was the size Of 2
close-in modern hat and his stock IN
Ptrade 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 store grew, and finally
other nickel stores Of H. q. Dukes
appeared in other western towns.
They seemed to meet with instant
success. Wherever he established a
nickel store he prospered. And as
he prospered he increased his gifts
to the church.
"I believe he said Wednesday
morning, "that these gifts we're 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 ali things;
| they showed me how essential 1t Is
to have more than petty interests.
eat last decided that had earn
ed enough, and I told my wife that
whatever else I earned shoulud be
given to the church and work Of the
church. She agreed that when had
100000 I should stop earning mon
ey for myself or for any one but God'
and we made a covenant Of that sort.
am now keeping 1t.
Last year I made something over
$4,000, and think that by increas-
| ing the number Of my stores l can
Increase these earnings to 100000 or
$4,000 a year, all Of which shall be
used as I have agreed.
"I am a member Of the First Bap-
tist church of Dallas. I am sixty
years old and joined the church at
the age Of thirty-fve years. During
a. large part of my life have deyot-
ed a part Of my means to the church.
when first went west I met a
man. q lawyer, named r. L. Rudy,
| who gave a tenth Of his income to
church work. He gave with such lit
| tie effort and got such good from his
giving that my pastor, Mt. McCon-
nell. and myself decided we would
do the same thing. We were not
willing to let any one else get more
out OF religion than we did. SO we
also began tithing, and / found that
this giving to God was the greatest
exnerience Of my life. No man, no
matter what his condition, what. his
responsibilities, should give less than
one-tenth to the church. Only then
ran he know the full benefits Of re-
ligion.
"A al made more money I gave
more. From tenth, increased m,
gifts to a seventh, then to a nftn'
ard now to all. During the first year
that I began systematically giving to
the church my offering amounted to
s11o: second year, s154; third
$3.50; fourth, s3sS; fifth. 1890; s'rtn
$3.50: sixth. 1852. seventh, s556;
eighth. $3.50; ninth, 1855; tenth
s1.o40: eleventh, $3.50: twelfth, ST.
143: fifteenth, s2,47e; sixteenth,
s3,s7s; seventeenth, s1,eo4; elen-
teenth, $4,000"
In pamphlet published by him at
the request OF the Baptist laymen OF
Texas. he gives his experience OF
"Gifteenth Years OF Tithing."
81 have tried the Lord in this ousl-
ines way" he says, land I would no
more quit tithing than would Quit
providing for my family. Tith1ns
hae svstematized our business as