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Honest Dues

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 3, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 27.

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Honest Dues.

“MRS. SMITH said you were the best laundress she ever had, Norah,” we remarked as dainty muslins were taken from the rack.
“Did she, ma’am?” The woman looked up for a moment, but her face expressed no particular pleasure at the praise. “’Twas meself she should have said it to, then, long ago, but she never did. All the months I worked for her she never said if things pleased her or no; she just looked at ’em and said nothing. I’d do my best for her, but all the time I did be feeling she wasn’t satisfied. I thought she was an honest woman.”
“Honest, Norah?” we questioned. “Why, she paid you, didn’t she?”
“She paid me the money, ma’am; but if she liked me work, ’twas no more than me dues for her to say so,” was the answer, with a touch of indignation. “She kept that back.”
Norah was right, and we went away thinking how many of us are guilty, either carelessly or wilfully, of withholding dues of that sort. From the sermon which uplifts the soul to the humblest task in the household, the one who faithfully ministers to our needs has earned the meed of acknowledgement as truly as the compensation in coin.—Wellspring.