PENNIES, OR PROMISES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 30, 1900

PENNIES, OR PROMISES.

“If I had heaps of yellow corn And fields of waving wheat, I’d quickly send a cargo where They’ve not enough to eat: I’d load a ship myself alone, With grain of every kind, And make my harvest offering The best that I could find. Or, if I had just money, why, That, too, would do much good; For it should go to India To buy the children food.”

’Twas little Rob who said these words, So generous and so bold; What he would do when he was rich He very often told; But, oh, this same dear little boy, When he had dimes to spend, Bought something for himself alone, Had none to give or lend. But truly now, if Rob expects To be a generous man, He’d better practice when he’s small By giving what he can.

— Children’s Missionary Friend.