Exodus 35:29 The children of Israel brought a willing offering to the LORD, every man and woman… The Rev. Dr. D. Fraser tells the following: — After a sermon preached by him at the opening of a church elsewhere, a lady of fashionable position in society came to him. "Why should I have two watches while the house of God remains unpaid for?" He replied, "Really, I cannot tell why." She then said, "Well, I will give the better watch of the two toward the cost of the church." She did so, and a jeweller paid £25 for it, which was a sensible addition to the fund. Dr. Fraser added that at another collection, on the previous Sunday, a lady who had not a piece of gold, and who did not care to give silver, took the chain off her neck and put it on the plate. She would lose nothing by that. They might say that these were impulsive women. Well, impulsive women might rise up to condemn illiberal men in the day of the Lord. Parallel Verses KJV: The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses. |
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