It is a generous contribution, but I cannot take it any longer.
It is fortunate that my wife has saved up this money to buy a sewing-machine, so that we can pay back your contribution in full." He paused; no one of us spoke a word.
"Mr.Nash," he continued, and his face was good to see, "I am the minister here.

I am convinced that what the community needs is more of a religious and social spirit, and I am going about getting it in the way the Lord leads me." At this I saw Mrs.Minister look up at her husband with such a light in her eyes as any man might well barter his life for--I could not keep my own eyes from pure beauty of it.
I knew too what this defiance meant.

It meant that this little family was placing its all upon the altar--even the pitiful coins for which they had skimped and saved for months for a particular purpose.

Talk of the heroism of the men who charged with Pickett at Gettysburg! Here was a courage higher and whiter than that; here was a courage that dared to fight alone.
As for Mr.Nash, the face of that Chief Pharisee was a study.

Nothing is so paralyzing to a rich man as to find suddenly that his money will no longer command him any advantage.