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Title: Fifty years syne : a jubilee memorial of the Presbyterian Church of Otago, 1848-1898
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Chisholm, James, 1838-1903 Presbyterian Church, Otago, N.Z
Subjects: Presbyterian Church of New Zealand
Publisher: Dunedin, J. Wilkie
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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ss the street for a bottle of whisky onSaturday night, saying, Youll get back a penny ochange, and see that you get it in hapennies, as yin othem will do for the plate the morn. That ninepence,too, has the look of being made up of threepenny bits.They may have been worn enough, but none of themcould possibly have given rise to such lamentable bathosas this :—A worshipper was singing with great vigourand seeming devotion these lines of Dr Watts hymn— Were the whole realm of nature mine,That were an offering far too small. And all the while, in anticipation of the collection, hishand was in his pocket scraping the edge of a threepennybit, to make sure that it was not a fourpenny. All such guesses are likely to be wide of the mark,and, indeed, when flippant critics grow humorous orcynical, and when well-to-do people grow contemptuousover what they deem shabby contributions, they need tobe reminded that the mites of the widow were of more * The Elder at the Plate. By Nicholas Dickson.
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