p. 571 | Maggie's Sixpence

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 17, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 36.

Maggie's Sixpence.

A MISSIONARY told us the other day a very affecting little incident. He had been preaching a mission sermon in Scotland, and telling of the condition of the poor women of India, and he observed that many of the audience seemed quite affected by his account. A few days afterwards, the pastor of the church where he had preached, met on the street one of his parishioners, a poor old woman, half blind, who earned a precarious livelihood by going on errands, or by any other little work of that kind that came in her way. She went up to him, and with a bright smile put a sixpence into his hand, telling him that was to go for the mission work in India. Her minister, knowing how poor she was, said, "No, no, Maggie; that is too much for you to give; you cannot afford this." She told him that she had just been on an errand for a very kind gentleman, and instead of the few coppers she generally received, he had given her three pennies and a silver sixpence; and, said she, "The silver and the gold is the Lord's, and the copper will do for poor Maggie." How many lessons do God's poor teach us! "Poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom!"—At Home and Abroad.