Rev. A. J. Potter, the “Fighting Parson” of Texas, tells this:
Holding services at a place one time I took up a collection
for the support of missions. There was a poor old lady present
who I noticed dropt a $5 gold piece in the hat. I knew she was
very poor and not able to afford so much, and thought she had
intended to throw in a quarter, but made a mistake. So next day
I met her husband and said to him: “Look here, your wife put a
$5 gold piece in the hat yesterday; I think she must have made a
mistake.” “No, no,” he replied, “my wife didn’t make no mistake.
She don’t fling often, but, let me tell you, when she flings she
flings.”
It is just such “flings” of the generous giver that lend “wings” to the
glorious gospel.
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