WHILE Gossner was living with Fenneborg, a poor traveler asked the latter to lend him three dollars to reach home. Fenneborg at the time possessed but three dollars; but as the poor man asked in the name of the Lord Jesus, he lent him all he had, even the last penny.
Some time after, when in extreme want, he recollected this fact while in prayer, and with child-like faith and simplicity he said, “O Lord, I lent Thee three dollars, and Thou hast not given them back to me. Thou knowest how urgently I need them. I pray Thee to return them to me.”
A letter arrived that day which Gossner delivered to the old man with these words, “Here, sir, you receive what you advanced.” It contained two hundred dollars, sent by a rich man at the solicitation of the poor traveler, to whom he had lent his all.
Fenneborg, quite overcome with surprise, said in his simple way, “O clear Lord, one cannot say a simple word to Thee without being put to shame.
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