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Show j DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE I A . By Dr. James I. Vance How much is there in a dollar? It all depends. We had finished our every-member canvass in the church. There were individual givers whose contributions climbed into four figures. Our objectives had been reached and exceeded, and I felt good. I was calling on an aged woman, one of the Inmate3 of an institution which mothers the old who have no home. There were some we had deliberately de-liberately decided not to canvass, be-1 cause we felt they Avere not able to give anything, and to solicit a gift would be to embarrass them. She was of this number. i "The canvassers haven't been to ' see me yet." she said, and there was 1 a note of disappointment, half of1 yearning in har voice. "I haVo been waiting for them to call. My money j is put away and waiting Tor them." "No," I replied evasively. "Thoy have not quite finished their work." Bui I felt rebuked. Pastor, suppose I give it to you to turn in for me. I don't want anything to happen to it." "Very well," I said. "I will see that your gift goes just as you wish." , She walked over lo a closet, I opened the door, and after pushing aside various articles, produced a worn purse, from which she took two crumpled five-dollar bills. As she laid them in my hand, her face was aglow with the joy that money cannot can-not buy, and she said: "It is such a privilege to be able to do something for our Redeemer's work!" As I took thai saint's gift to her God, I thought of another woman long ago who cast two mites into the Lord's treasury, but it was. all her living, and the Master said: "She hath cast in more than they all." Those two worn five-dollar bills cannot be counted. There are things i there you Cannot get' into figures. They defy mathematics. They must be computed by invisible standards. Prayer is there, and longing, and self- denial, and sacrifice, and love, and failiiand expectation, and fellowship, j Go(n is in that money. The bills were soiled, but the gift was as clean as the smile of a seraph. Money is to be measured by motive. mo-tive. Let the church beware lest it merely counl its gifts. The biggest givers are the givers with the highest high-est motive, and motive climbs upon the altar stairs of sacrifice and love, j |