Brigham Young:
Suppose that in this community there are ten beggars who beg from door to door for something to eat, and that nine of them are imposters who beg [so as] to escape work, and with an evil heart, practice imposition upon the generous and sympathetic, and that only one of the ten who visits your doors is worthy of the bounty. Which is best—to give to one or to repulse the ten because you do not know which is the worthy one?
You will all say, administer charitable gifts to the ten, rather than turn away the only truly worthy and truly needy person among them. If you do this, it will make no difference in your blessings, whether you administer to worthy or unworthy persons, inasmuch as you give alms with a single eye to assist the truly needy.
(Journal of Discourses, Vol. 8, p. 12)
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A good counsel to a question I often feel within me when choosing to give of what little I have.
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