A Thankless Service

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 2, 1872

A Thankless Service.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Home Missionary from Northern Iowa, tells the following story which we hope may come to the notice of the “brother in the church,” for it is quite possible that his guilt is simply that of thoughtlessness, and that only a hint is wanted to put him on the track of doing the right thing:

Here is a man worth over $25,000. I have been to see him three times, over such a road! There are seventeen big, steep hills in two miles. He has had sickness and death in his family. It took me three-fourths of a day to attend the funeral. I broke the springs to my buggy in going. A few days after he sent for me to come and baptize his child, who was sick and was expected to die. I went; the doctor came while I was there, stayed a short time, and was paid twenty dollars for his trip. After he was gone, I asked this brother in the church to let me have some oats for my horse. He very coldly told me that he had not any to spare. At the same time he had not room enough for his grain; and a carpenter was at work putting up another building.