Cornered | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 12, 1865

Cornered.

Covetous people often seek to shelter themselves behind the widow's mite, and to give a paltry sum to benevolent objects under cover of her contribution. The following incident has a moral for all such:

A gentleman called upon a wealthy friend for a contribution.

"Yes, I must give my mite," said the rich man.

"You mean the widow's mite, I suppose," replied the other.

"To be sure I do."

The gentleman continued—"I will be satisfied with half as much as she gave. How much are you worth?"

"Seventy thousand dollars," he answered.

"Give me then a check for thirty-five thousand, that will be just half as much as the widow gave; for she gave all she had."

It was a new idea to the wealthy merchant.