A SCOTCH WOMAN’S MISSION MONEY.
By Louis Albert Banks
“If I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.” Some one tells the story of a Scotch woman who lived on oatmeal porridge that she might give to missions. A friend gave her a sixpence to buy a chop. She said, “I have been without chops for nine years; I can do without the chop.” She gave the sixpence to missions. The friend, some time after, being at a dinner where a number of wealthy people were present, told the story of that chop. Many were deeply impressed, and one lady among them spoke up, and said, “I never went without a chop for Christ yet; I will give a thousand pounds for missions.” Another and another spoke, until, around that dinner-table, the old Scotch woman’s sixpence worth of mutton-chop had grown into twelve thousand dollars to send the Gospel to the heathen. He who fed the thousands of people with the few loaves and fishes long ago had blessed that chop, and made it large enough to feed the multitude again. O! if there be love with it, a chop foregone for Christ’s sake is worth more than a million of dollars given without love.—Louis Albert Banks, in S. S. Times.