Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1893 — The Widow’s Mite. [ARTICLE]

The Widow’s Mite.

Rev. Theodore Pryor, D. D., furnishes the following: “Fifty vears ago John H. Rice, of Richmond. Va.. went North to beg aid for Hampden Sidney College. In Philadelphia a poor washerwoman said to him: ‘I and my children live from day to day from my labor. After hearing your appeal for the college yesterday I went home and fasted, and now I bring you for the collage the amount 1 saved by the fasting.’ Dr. Rice said that it was the greatest contribution of all the great gifts he raised during that trip.”—fiicimond Religious tlerah-.