Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1888 — ASTONISHED THE BRETHREN. [ARTICLE]

ASTONISHED THE BRETHREN.

How a Poor-Looking Man Gave $75,000 to the Bible Society, „ Hpringfield Union. The mah isjstill living who, seventeen years ago, walked into the.rooms of the Bible Society in Boston and electrified the jiersons lie found there, first hv his appearance, and secondly by the communication which he hail to make. His appearance indicated more thlin poverty, for his shabby clothes were tied together with strings. What in the world had brought such a man there was the question every one asked himself, and their wOnder can be better imagined than described when the stranger remarked that he had property to the amount of $75,000 that he would like to turn over to the society if he could be guaranteed 10 per cent annuity upon it during the remainder of dis life,his age then being seventynine.

The officers suppressed their amazement as well as they could, took his name, verified his schedule of possessions and submitted the case to the directors. They looked the matter over in the light of actuaries’ tables, etc., and finally, after ,much deliberation, decided that the risk was too great, and so notified the wouldbe donor. Not long after he came back and renewed his proposition to turn the money over to the society and said that he would be content with 7 per cent, annually. That proposition was accepted, and for some years he appeared regularly at the expiration of the drew his interest, taking S2OO in cash and the company’s note for the balance. After doing this for seven years or so he turned those notes back to the company, saying that he had no use for them. He is now at the age of ninety-six, blind, deaf, anil crippled by a fall so that lie can notwalk, and the Brfalc Society payethe bills for his support. • ~ —- The largest and finest hospital in the world has been completed in Baltimore after ten years of continuous work. It will be opened with formal ceremonies next autumn. It bears the name of Johns Hopkins, which has been so widely familiarized in both -hemispheres- by the university which he founded and which is said to be better known in Europe for original works in science and education than any other American institution. John Hopkins was a poor Quaker’s son.

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