“I’ll keep it, Mother,” said he, “so that it will stand as a reminder to me in prosperity that I was once poor and in bondage; and in my happiness that it may tell me of the days when I was forsaken and in prison, with only my mother’s faithful hand to comfort me.
“I’ll put it away and keep it, Mother, lest in my prosperity some day I may forget the Lord; forget that He giveth, and that He taketh away, also; that His hand chastiseth in the 370 same measure that it bestows blessings upon us. I’ll leave it up here, Mother, on the old shelf; right where I can see it every time I take down the Book.”
W. B. C.