We ask for so many foolish things. If we should get them we would
not know what to do with the answers. “Sophie,” the scrub-woman, of
Brooklyn, in her quaint, half-broken English, once said this:
“I heard about a countryman who was in the city for the first
time. He went into a restaurant and made up his mind to have
something fine, whatever the cost. He saw a man at the next
table put a little mustard on his plate, and he said ‘that must
be fine and expensive, he has so little, but no matter what it
costs, I will haf some.’ So he told the waiter to bring him a
dollar’s worth of that stuff. A plate was brought. He took a big
spoonful: it bit him; he spit it out and did not want any more.
So, we ask for things that if our Father should give them to us
we would only be bitten by them and be glad to get rid of them.”
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=Asking and Receiving=--See FAITH AND PRAYER.