GIVEN IN LOVE | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 9, 1880

GIVEN IN LOVE.

A LITTLE girl, seven years old, died in Philadelphia a year or two ago. When the doctor told her she could not live, she bade her mother send for the pastor of the church, and gave him her little savings-bank.

"Open it," she said.

There were four dollars and a few cents.

"Take them," said the child, "and build a church for poor people, those who sit in the back seats of our church. They must not pay for anything. I want all the seats to be free."

The clergyman took the money. "My child," he said, solemnly, "it shall be done with God's help."

When the child was dead, he placed her little bank and the pittance it contained on the pulpit, and told her story. Tears were in every eye.

One wealthy man after another came forward with his offering. Children came, women also, and the poor with their mites.

A week or two ago the completed church ready for its occupants was dedicated to the service of that God who willed that the widow's mite and the poor little child's offering should not fail of their errand.—Sel.