Part 6 (2/2)
”The way I reason is this-a-way,” he began ”All that so else Take a train to suin, you find that all he has in the world, besides his pipe and a little tobacco, is his feelings It's all ood many think they have s”
He looked at h he had expressed the solution of the difficulties of the world, and the wonderful, kindly eyes beaood,” I said, ”but what do you do? How do you go about it to aid your fellow his own personal actions in thethem the salvation which the Bible teaches You know I stand on the Bible, from cover to cover”
”Yes, I know you stand on the Bible, but what do you do? You don't merely preach the Bible to them What do you do?”
”No, sir, I don't preach the Bible at all I stand on it o wherever I can be useful If anybody is sick or in trouble, I'o I'll be a nurse I'll work and earn the I can--that's what I do”
”How can you give when you haven't anything? They told me in Noank that you never worked for money”
”Not for myself alone I never take anyI earn or take is for the Lord, not me
I never keep it The Lord doesn't allow a et money what do you do with it? You can't do and live withoutaway across the river and the bridge to the city below, but now he brought his eyes back and fixed the now for twenty years or h I've never had more money than would lastand I've been able to help others I've run pretty close soain I've been cooing to have to ask you to get me my fare to New Haven tootten ain, when it was necessary for o, without five cents in my pocket, and He's been there towhen you're about His work He wouldn't forget you--not for a minute”
I looked at the man in open-eyed ao down to a depot without money and wait for money to coht in his eyes, ”if you only knehat it is to have faith!”
He laid his hand softly on mine
”What is car-fare to New Haven or to anywhere, to Him?”
”But,” I replied o there--how do you actually get it? Who gives it to you? Give me one instance”
”Why, it was only last week, brother, that a wo me to come and see her She's very sick with consu to die I used to know her in Noank, and she thought if she could get to see me she would feel better
”I didn't have any money at the time, but that didn't make any difference
”'Lord,' I said, 'here's a woman sick in Maiden, and she wants ht down to the depot, in time to catch a certain train,' and I went And while I was standing there a ive you this,' and he handed me ten dollars”
”Did you know the man?” I exclaimed
”Never saw hienially
”And didn't he say anything more than that?”
”No”
I stared at hie off my astonishment:
”Why, bless your heart, I kneas fro”
”Youthe Lord to help you, and He did?”