Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1900 — Humility ana Honesty. [ARTICLE]

Humility ana Honesty.

Of the late Dr. N. J. Burton, pastor of the Park Church, Hartford, his son, tbe poet, Richard Burton, tells this beautiful story; “Among my father’s effects was found an old check, yellowed by ago and torn across, the date 1870 or thereabouts. It had been sent by the editor of the Independent, with an urgent request for a contribution, tbe amount of the honorarium to be written in according to tbe contributor’s Judgment and pleasure—a rather dangerous liberty to allow some of tbe literati. But the check remained, never filled out, la ills poeketbook.’’ The Incident In typical. It wan fairly pathetic to ace how distrustful he was of his own accomplishments, how nelfdcprcclatlug. Yet at rare Intervals, he realised he liad done something not ordinary, and then. In fitting privacy and with a beautiful frankness, would fay so.