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The Sweet Sound of Investment

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 20, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 4.

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The Sweet Sound of Investment

An old woman in a back district disliked, she said, the ringing of church bells. She was finally induced, however, to give five dollars toward one for the mission church.
The first time she heard it ringing, she said: “I’ve always declared I did not like bells. But I will say that is the sweetest-sounding bell I ever heard.”
“Ah!” said the missionary, “the secret of it is this: With every sound of that bell you hear the jingle of your five dollars.”
It is the dollars invested in the work of saving souls that cause the reports of progress from every land to sound like sweetest music in our ears, and the heavier the investment, the greater the joy.