Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1868 — How to Raise Twenty Dollars for Religious Purposes. [ARTICLE]

How to Raise Twenty Dollars for Religious Purposes.

A preacher on a frontier settlement had been collecting money for some ohurch object. There was still some twenty dollars wanting, and after vain efforts to make up the deficiency, he plainly intimated, as he locked the church door one day after service, that he intended to have that said-twenty dollars before any of them left' the house. At the same time he set the example by tossing afive dollar bill on the table. Another put down a dollar, another a quarter of a dollar, a fourth a half dollar, aud so on. The parson read out every one and then tho state of the funds. “That’s seven find a half my friends.” “That’s nine and,a quarter.” “Ten .and six bits are all that are in the hat, friends and Christian brethren.” Slowly it mounted up. “Fifteen.” “Sixteen and three biro,” and so on until it struck #19,50. “It only wants fifty cents, friends,Ao jnako up the amount. Will nobody make it up ?” Everybody had subscribed* and not. a ceut more was Tdrthcom' ing. Silence reigned, and how long it might have lasted it was difficult to say, had not $ half dollar been tossed through the open window, and a rough explanatory voice shouted, “Rare, parson, there’* your money; letontmy gih I’m about tired of waitin’ on. her!”