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GENEROSITY, THOROUGHGOING
Rev. A. J. Potter, the “Fighting Parson” of Texas, tells this:
Holding services at a place one time I took up a collection for the support of missions. There was a poor old lady present who I noticed dropt a $5 gold piece in the hat. I knew she was very poor and not able to afford so much, and thought she had intended to throw in a quarter, but made a mistake. So next day I met her husband and said to him: “Look here, your wife put a $5 gold piece in the hat yesterday; I think she must have made a mistake.” “No, no,” he replied, “my wife didn’t make no mistake. She don’t fling often, but, let me tell you, when she flings she flings.”
It is just such “flings” of the generous giver that lend “wings” to the glorious gospel.
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GENIUS
Oh, some there are with beauty bright,
And they are lust of eyes,
And some who blind us with the mind