GIVING: Try the 'One Day' policy with local charities
Hearing of Lake City Church’s “One Day” of giving being pegged at “… the amount each parishioner earned in one day,” my mind recalled a similar “one day of salary” being used as a benchmark.
Samuel Colt died a multimillionaire at age 46 having established one of America’s most iconic businesses, which still exists. The 1873 Colt Peacemaker was initially priced at $17, which meant the Company’s goal that the gun’s cost be that of, “one day’s salary of the common laborer” was achieved. The story may well be apocryphal, so the author of this letter wishes to make no further connection between an arms manufacturer and a church.
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