Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1902 — THE PLEASURE OF GIVING, [ARTICLE]

THE PLEASURE OF GIVING,

Successful Man Who Did Not Experience It Until Late in Life. To the present generation the name of Gov. E. D. Morgan, of New York, Is scarcely more than a dim echo from the pages of history; but there are men still living who remember him as one of the group of great war Governors whose firmness and courage served their country so "magnificently in her darkest hour. It was one who so remembered him who told this Incident: Governor Morgan was a very rich man, but until he was 70 years old he never had given away any of his wealth. Then one day be sent for his old friend, Dr. Adams, the President of Union Theological Seminary, and told him that he wished to give a large sum of money to the college. The doctor, almost incredulous at first, was soon convinced of the sincerity of the offer, and a time was set at which he was to go and get the bonds. At the appointed hour the doctor appeared and bonds to the value of more than 8200,000 were put into his hands. The Governor stood and watched until the doctor’s carriage was out of sight. Afterward he spoke of It to another friend. “I am an old man,” he said. “I have had a successful life and done about all that I had planned to do, and I supposed that I had been happy. But I know now that until I stood and watched Dr. Adams drive away with those bonds I never had known what happiness was. I cannot regret too deeply that early in life I did not form the habit of giving.”