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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 8, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 32.

HE FOUND HEAVEN ON EARTH.

By Medical Missionary Record

IT is related that a minister one day preached on heaven. Next morning he was going down town, and met one of his old, wealthy members. The brother stopped the preacher and said:—

"Pastor, you preached a good sermon about heaven, but you never told me where heaven is."

"Ah," said the pastor, "I am glad of an opportunity this morning. I have just come from the hilltop yonder. In that cottage is a member of our church. She is in bed with fever, her two little children are sick in the other bed, and she hasn't a bit of coal or a stick of wood, nor flour, nor sugar, nor any bread. If you will go down town and buy five dollars' worth of things—nice provisions—and send them up to her, and then go up there and say, 'My sister, I have brought you these nice provisions in the name of our Lord and Saviour,' and then ask for a Bible and read the twenty-third psalm, and then get down on your knees and pray; if you don't see heaven before you get all through, I'll pay the bill."