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A Dying Usurer and the Silver Crucifix

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 8, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 6.

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A Dying Usurer and the Silver Crucifix

A FAMOUS usurer of Paris being on his death-bed, his confessor presented a silver crucifix to him, with a view to awaken him to a sense of his situation. The dying miser, after examining the cross with the most minute attention, suddenly exclaimed, “Sir, I can lend you but a very small sum on such a pledge.”