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The Shoemaker's Dream

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 7, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 6.

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The Shoemaker's Dream.

GEORGE RENTON was a poor man; and often said, "If I were rich, I would show people how to give." In a dream, he saw a pyramid of dollars—all new, bright, and beautiful. Just then, a voice said to him, "Now is your time! You are rich at last; you now have an opportunity to exercise your generosity!" So he arose from his seat and went to the pile to take some money for charitable purposes. But the pyramid was so perfect that he could not bear to break it; he walked all around it, but found no place where he could take a dollar without spoiling the heap. So he decided that the pyramid should not be broken! . . . then awoke, awoke to know himself, and to see that he would be generous only while comparatively poor.