POVERTY PERSPECTIVE
In the depths of the depression of the 1930s, a government agent visited the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. The federal government was making small allotments to impoverished farmers for stock, feed and necessary equipment. The agent came upon a mountain woman who lived all alone and tried to grub a living from two acres of land. She had no floors in her cabin (save for the packed earth) and just a few sticks of homemade furniture. Daylight streamed through the chinks in the cabin walls. The agent looked around and then asked, “If the government gave you 200 dollars, what would you do with it?” The woman weighed the question for a moment and then replied, “Reckon I’d give it to the poor.” From Homiletics, October – December 1992, pgs. 9 & 10, – Hal Brady, Dallas, Texas, September 29, 1991, quoting Harold Koh, The Tinsel and The Hay, published by Tidings, Nashville, 1968, pg. 77
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