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THE WOODCUTTER'S BIBLE

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 12, 1892

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 6.

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THE WOODCUTTER'S BIBLE.

A poor woodcutter in the Hartz Mountains, whose children needed a Bible to use at school, bought for a few cents a very shabby copy, which they took home every night to let their father have the pleasure of reading after his hard day's work. Once, while thus reading the Book of books by the flickering light of a wretched oil lamp, he found two pages pasted together, and when he had carefully separated them, there lay a hundred thaler bill, with a slip of paper on which was written: "This money is intended for the pious reader who seeks instruction from this book. May it bring a blessing." To the poor woodcutter the sum was a little fortune.—Selected.