Accepted With Caution.
A wealthy and generous American gentleman, attending one Sunday a church maintained by a coloured congregation, was so pleaded with the ministers bimple seirnon and the attitude of t!ie wor?>hip| ers that he dropped five dollars into the basket when it was passed for the usual collection. So large a contribution seemed to fill with amazement tho deacons who had passed the baskets, and one of them in a whisper confided the fact of the unusual contribution to the pastor, who arose and said to the congregation : " Beloved fren's, de collection hab brought fo'th de munit'eent sum ob sixteen do'lars and forty-nine cents, purwided, bredren, purwided de five-doilar bill gib by de white gemraan am not counterfeit."
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Otago Witness, Issue 1981, 11 February 1892, Page 46
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120Accepted With Caution. Otago Witness, Issue 1981, 11 February 1892, Page 46
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