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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 18, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 3.

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BILL PAID.

A WELL-TO-DO deacon in an Eastern State was one morning accosted by his pastor, who said: "Poor Widow Green's wood is out. Can you not take her a cord?"
"Well," answered the deacon, "I have the wood and I have the team; but who is to pay me for it?"
The pastor replied, "I will pay you for it, on condition that you read the first three verses of the forty-first psalm before you go to bed to-night."
The deacon consented, delivered the wood, and at night opened the Word of God and read the passage:—
"Blessed is he that considereth the poor; the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth; and Thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing; Thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness."
A few days afterwards the pastor met him again.
"How much do I owe you, deacon, for that cord of wood?"
"O!" said the now-enlightened man, "do not speak of payment; I did not know those promises were in the Bible. I would not take money for supplying the widow's wants."—Anonymous.