Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1901 — They Counted Honestly. [ARTICLE]

They Counted Honestly.

Some years ago a hoEhe missionary had been preaching on an Island whose principal product Is the clam. One day he received an unexpected compliment as to the thoroughness of his spiritual work. The good man was working In his shirt-sleeves on a new church. A stout sea-captain hailed him: “Are you the minister here?” “Yes, Bir.” “Well, I’ve got ten dollars for you.” “For the church?” “No, for yourself. I like your way of doing things here. I’ve come to this island for clams a good many years, and always found them a thousand or fifteen hundred short when I got home. It will pay me to have you keep preaching doctrines which make people count their clams honestly.”