Poor, but Rich

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 15, 1909

A POOR blind woman in Paris put twenty-seven francs into the plate at a missionary meeting. “You can not afford so much,” said one. “Yes, sir, I can,” she answered. On being pressed to explain, she said: “I am blind, and I said to my fellow straw-workers, ‘How much money do you spend in a year for oil in your lamps when it is too dark to work at night?’ They replied: ‘Twenty-seven francs.’”

“So,” said the poor woman, “I found that I save so much in the year because I am blind and do not need a lamp, and I give it to shed light in the dark heathen land.”—Selected.