Exodus 35:29 The children of Israel brought a willing offering to the LORD, every man and woman… The Rev. Dr. Dickson, of Baltimore, in an address at the Maryland State Sabbath-school Convention, spoke of the need of cultivating "the grace of giving" in early life. Twenty years ago, he said, he proposed to his Sabbath-school superintendent to take up a collection every Sabbath morning from the children. "Why, my dear pastor," exclaimed the superintendent, "you shear the sheep pretty often, and this looks really like wanting to shear the tender lambs!" The thought startled the speaker. A few days after, however, he was in the store of one of his parishioners, purchasing stockings. He had selected a good article, as he thought, when the merchant inquired, "Why do you not select the lambs'wool?" "Lambs' wool! why, are they better?" "Yes, they are a world softer, far more pliable, and I believe wear longer than those made from old sheep's wool." He did not remember, and needed not to inform the hearers, whether he took the stockings; but he knew that he took the fact to his superintendent, telling him that "lambs' wool was the best wool, and he meant to try it!" The many early traits of selfishness, avarice, covetousness, subdued by the earlier formed habits of giving in children who could tell! 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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