MOST PRECIOUS POSSESSION
Pastor Rittenhouse and his family were on vacation travelling down the highway when they saw a suitcase fly off the top of a car going the opposite direction. They stopped to pick it up but the driver of the other car never stopped. The only clue to the driver’s identity was a twenty dollar gold piece inscibed: “Given to Otis Sampson at his retirement by Portland Cement Company.” After extensive correspondence, Otis Sampson was located and contacted. He wrote a letter telling him to discard the suitcase and all its contents, and send only the gold piece. Mr. Sampson used the phrase “my most precious possession,” several times to describe the gold piece. Pastor Rittenhouse did so, and wrote a cover letter telling Otis Sampson about his most prized possession, Jesus Christ. A year later, the pastor received a Christmas package. In it was the twenty dollar gold piece. Mr. Sampson wrote, “You will be happy to know we have become…
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