Poor, but Rich

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 14, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 15.

A POOR, blind woman in Paris put twenty-seven francs into a 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 nights?’ 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 to the dark heathen lands.”