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 his last penny. Sometime after, when in extreme want, he recollected this fact while in prayer, and with childlike faith and simplicity, he said, “O, Lord, I lent Thee three dollars, and Thou hast not given them hack to me, though 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 200 dollars sent by a rich man at the solicitation of the poor traveler to whom he lent his all. Fenneborg, quite overcome with surprise, said in his simple way, “O, dear Lord, one cannot say a simple word to Thee without being put to shame!”
C. G.