The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-01-11
- the Divine call to the ministry = and the sys-
tenn he launched was the only system. There is
no other
No COMPROMISE

no other
No COMPROMISE
Thirteen years ago | started in, and have
gone through what few men, if any, ever have
gone through but God knows all about it.
"In 1907 God permitted me to be stripped
absolutely of everything from an ink bottle to
Ia stool chair.
II was summoned to the city of Chicago to an
office where there were several lawyers. They
said to me, Mr.. Voliva if you will agree to
preach as we want you to preach, you can have
the Tabernacle or anything out there you want
refused to compromise. I said, 4 will have
the Tabernacle some day, and I will carry deed
for it in my pocket
"This circumstance is mentioned for the reason
that it shows to you the secret of the blessings
that God has bestowed upon me, because would
never compromise, no matter how dark the way
or how many the obstacles. I stood my ground
through thick and thin
FACTS AND FIGURES - ECCLESIASTICAL AND
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENTS
"In the Waukegan Circuit Court had occa-
sion to file schedule in 1907, and | scheduled
for eighty-three cents as being the value of every
thing that had.
"Now, want to tell you what has been done
and what would be handed over if | should pass
away tonight and my will opened tomorrow.
ri have put into Shiloh Tabernacle, including
the Temple Site this pipe organ, the steel work,
and the repairs made here year ago, seventy
five thousand dollars
II have put into other properties one hundred
thousand dollars.
ri have reached the place today where I have,
exclusive of the Institutions and Industries,
yearly income of two hundred thousand dollars.
"But all this would not interest me at all if |
could not say what have said about Zion spirit
ually. This result is surely due to lions spiritual
condition.
IT will tell you another thing in financing be-
lieve in living absolutely within my income and
not beyond it. Consequently, | look at my re-
port on December 31st,-today was pay day-and
there is large balance.
Zion Educational Institutions are in the third
year. The pay roll of Zion Educational Depart
ment alone is twenty-four thousand dollars a
year. have now covered ffty-six pay-days right
on the tick of the clock-on the 10th and 18th of
every month-without any failure whatever
81 want you to stop and think what has been
done since 1907, starting, as we did, from nothing.
II am a firm believer in tithing.
"I am student enough of the Scripture to know
that the very least Christian can do is to pay his
tithes
II have had very hard row to hoe. | took
discouraged, bankrupt people; and what has been
done? God has done what He, has always done
with faithful servant and faithful people, and
what He has always done in accordance with His
Word.
IF | were to retire tonight and say to my sue
cessor, Take my shoes'-whether he could fill
them or not remains to be seen-I would turn
over to him splendid organization, with over
two hundred thousand dollars worth of property
and yearly income of two hundred thousand.
John Alexander Dowie used to say, Zion will
become powerful people, He was right. We
could not become otherwise with the right kind
of living and proper management and by taking
care of the resources that God puts into our
hands
Some day am going away and am going
to give Apostle Carey and a few others chance
to stand up here and talk to you,-men that know
all the details of my financial management. Let
them say anything they have to say
Il had lovely work in Australia and could
well have wished to remain there had lovely
Tabernacle that seated sixteen hundred people
started with an audience of fifteen and with
practically no income. soon had an income of
three thousand dollars month. | always had
bank balance for the work of from fifteen hum
dred to three thousand dollars had choir of
sixty members, ffty-nne of whom were con-
verified under my ministry Besides the choir and
officers, | had between two and three hundred
members in Melbourne alone, not speaking of
Adelaide, Sydney and other places I had to
leave all of it behind
II thank God for all we see in Zion tonight
We started with nothing and had all kinds of
opposition. Today everything is in good shape.
| do not know just now how it could be in any
better
1T is nice thing to have little balance a
little nest egg, and I tell you that egg is not
bantam egg either.