INTERESTS QUICKENED BY SACRIFICE.
The giving to a good cause increases love for that cause, or creates affection for it where none existed before. Father Chidlaw, of Ohio, tells of a woman in his field, who declined to give money for a bell in the neighborhood church because she never liked the sound of bells and was glad to be beyond their reach. At last, however, she was overpersuaded, and gave five dollars under protest. When the bell was in its place and sounded out its ringing notes, someone asked this woman what she thought of it. “Well, I’ve always said that I never liked bells,” she replied, “but I confess that’s the sweetest sounding bell I ever heard.” “Ah!” says Father Chidlaw, “she heard her five dollars jingling when the bell rang. That was why its sound was so sweet to her.” —The Occident.