A CHEERFUL GIVER | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 14, 1881

A CHEERFUL GIVER.

"I was once attending a missionary meeting in Scotland," said a minister in making an address. "There it is the custom to take up the collection at the door as the people go out. A poor woman, in going out, dropped a sovereign into the basket. The deacon who held the basket said, 'I'm sure you cannot afford to give as much as that.' 'Oh yes, I can,' she said. 'Do take it back,' said the deacon. She replied, 'I must give it. I love to give for Jesus' sake.' Then the deacon said, 'Take it home to-night, and if, after thinking it over, you still wish to give, you can send it over in the morning.'

"In the morning I was sitting at breakfast with the deacon, when a little note came from this woman; but the note contained two sovereigns. 'You won't take them?' I said to the deacon. 'Of course I shall,' said he. 'I know that good woman well. If I send them back, she will send four next time.'"

This was indeed "loving to give."—Examiner and Chronicle.