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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 5, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 1.

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LENDING A PIE.

"Mother," said little Johnny, "haven't you a pie that you would like to lend to the Lord?"
"Why, Johnny, what do you mean?" she asked; for she thought at first it was a joke.
"Don't you remember," said he, "that the Bible says, 'He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord?' I don't believe old Betsy has had a pie for a long time; I thought perhaps you would like to have me take one to her; then you would be lending to the Lord, you know."
One of mother's best pies went to old Betsy; only she was sorry she had not thought of sending one before. But if she had, she would have lost Johnny's way of "putting it."—Moravian.