STRETCHING THE SOUL
It’s a good story which was told many years ago by R. Lee Sharpe. And a short but big sermon it was too! Let’s relate it mostly in Mr. Sharpe’s own language: “I was just a child. One spring day Father called me to go with him to Mr. Trussel’s black-smith shop. He had left a rake and a hoe to be repaired. And there they were, ready, fixed like new. Father handed over a silver dollar for the repairing. But Mr. Trussel refused to take it.” “‘No,’ he said. ‘there’s no charge for that little job,’ But Father insisted that he take the pay, still extending the dollar.” “If I ever live a thousand years.” said R. L. Sharpe, “I’ll never forget that great man’s reply: ‘Ed, can’t you let a man do something now and then — just to stretch his soul?'” “That short, but big sermon from the lips of that humble, lovable blacksmith has caused us to…
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