The Hand-Basket Portion

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 23, 1879

The Hand-Basket Portion.

In the Weald of Kent, when the daughter of an old farmer is married, if it be inquired what portion the old man gave, the answer is, “He gave them not much money, but the old people are always sending them something—there is always something sent from the farm-house.” Then the observation usually is, “Ay, here is a hand-basket portion, which is generally the best, for there is no end to that.” Even so our everlasting Father gives to his poor children a “hand-basket portion”—a basket being that which we generally fetch our daily provisions in. And God sometimes even puts his blessing in the basket, and then it seldom comes home empty; as it is written, “Blessed shall be thy basket.” Deut. 28:5.—Christian Treasury.