DISAPPOINTING PLEDGE
A church canvasser, taking part of his lunch hour, called upon a highly prosperous insurance broker. He quickly explained the church budget and the executive grumpily agreed – and scrawled on his pledge card the sum of one dollar a week. Disappointed at the smallness of the pledge, the canvasser gently suggested it could be a little larger. “I’m a businessman who takes a business view of all financial matters.” snapped the insurance man. “What I have pledged is quite enough.” “Well” said the canvasser as he rose to leave, “with such a low premium rate, you can hardly expect much protection.” Robert C. Shannon, Stewardship Source Book, Standard Publishing 1987 pg. 79
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