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The Crown Piece in the Collection Plate

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 26, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 39, No. 15.

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The Crown Piece in the Collection Plate

A young man having put a crown piece into “the plate” in Edinburgh church by mistake instead of a penny, asked to have it back, but was refused. In once, in forever, “Aweel, aweel,” grunted he, “I will get credit for it in Heaven.” “Na, na, said Jeems, the doorkeeper, “ye’ll get credit only for the penny ye meant to gi’e.”