CHILDREN’S PAGE.
ABOUT GIVING PENNIES—SELECTED.
FIVE KINDS OF PENNIES.
A boy who had a pocket full of coppers, dropped one into the Missionary-box, laughing as he did so. He had no thought in his heart about Jesus or the heathen. Was his penny not as light as tin?
Another boy put in a penny and looked around to see if anybody was praising him. His was the brass penny; not the gift of a lowly heart, but of a proud spirit.
A third boy gave a penny, saying to himself, “I suppose I must, because all others do.”
That was an iron penny. It was the gift of a cold, selfish heart.
As a fourth boy dropped his penny into the box he shed a tear, and his heart said, “Poor heathens! I’m sorry they are so poor, so ignorant and so miserable.”