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Could Not Pay for Her Seat

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 7, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 19.

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Could Not Pay for Her Seat

A WORKER in a Roman Catholic field writes:—
"A poor woman was visiting in —. On Sunday she had been to the cathedral to attend services. She saw the rector and asked for a seat while in the city.
"He asked, 'Have you any money to pay for it?'"
" 'I have not much money with me, but I want to come to church,' was her reply.
" 'Look here, woman,' he said, 'I want to tell you it takes money to run this church. If you do not have the money to pay for your pew, you can stay away. We are not running this church for souls; we want the money, and must have it. Do you hear?' "
"The next day she came to our mission crying, to seek for comfort and counsel. We told her that the Lord receives any poor soul who comes to him. Come without money and without price, he says. She studied the truth for these last days, and soon began to obey it."