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Seventh-Day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 31, 1884

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 5

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The Home Circle.

ONLY A PENNY.

“Mother, I've only a penny,” I heard a wee girl say, And it seemed so very little For me to give away.
“If it were only a five-cent piece, It wouldn't look so small; But it seems as if a penny Wasn't anything at all.”
“My dear,” said her mother, quietly, Though a smile o'er her features played, “You say you have only a penny— Of what are dollars made?”
“Of cents,” the little maid replied. “Then darling don't you see That, if there were no pennies, There would no dollars be?”
“Suppose that every little girl Should say, as you have done, ‘A penny is such a little thing, It can't help any one,’
“How many Bibles do you think That you would send away? So don't despise the pennies, But save them day by day,
“And soon you'll find you have enough For all you want to do; For in saving up the pennies You save the dollars too.” —Sel.