THE MORE IMPORTANT COIN
Jessie David Roberts tells in “Bears, Bibles and a Boy” about his days as a young pastor around the early 1900s. He received no fixed salary but got the plate offerings, and even though he was grateful for all he got to help pay for clothes and books he was reminded of the story of the Quarter which refused to speak to the Penny. The humble penny rebuked the shiny snob, saying, “So you think you are quite important — well, I am found at church much more often than you!” He said his mother had given him a large piggy- bank which the pennies kept well supplied.
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