Had His Doubts.
A wealthy and generous Englishman, while travelling in America, attended a church maintained by a coloured congregation, and was so pleaseel with the minister's simple sermon anel the attitude of the worshippers, that he dropped sdol into the basket when it was passed for the usual collection. So large a contribution seemed to fill with amazement the brethren who passed the baskets, and one of them, in a whisper, confided the fact of the unusual contribution to the pastor, who rose and said to the congregation : "Beloved fren's, de collection hab brought fo'ih de munif'cent sum ob sixteen do'lars and forty-nine cents, purvided de sdol bill gib by de white gemman am not counterfeit."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2401, 8 March 1900, Page 65
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117Had His Doubts. Otago Witness, Issue 2401, 8 March 1900, Page 65
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