Providential financial aid for a missionary
Published October 13, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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A young man from Salt Lake City, called to a mission, had seventy-five dollars and owed seventy-five dollars to a non-Mormon gentleman and twenty-five dollars in tithing. He decided to pay his tithing first and then offer the remaining fifty dollars to the creditor, promising to pay the rest later. Upon hearing of the mission, the creditor forgave the remaining twenty-five dollar debt.
In Their Own Words
“A young man in Salt Lake City was called on a mission. He had seventy-five dollars, but he owed seventy-five dollars to a gentleman who was not a member of the Church, and he owed twenty-five dollars tithing. He felt that he should pay his tithing first, and then go to the gentleman, pay him the fifty dollars he would have left, and ask him to wait for the balance. He did this, and was very agreeably surprised when the gentleman turned to him and said, 'So you are going on a mission. Well, I will make you a present of the remaining twenty-five dollars.'”
— W. A. M., as quoted in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 69, No. 37
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), Vol. 69, No. 37 (1907). https://archive.org/details/millennialstar6937eng (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Full first-person account: The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 69, No. 37 (1907), page 587 https://archive.org/details/millennialstar6937eng
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