Mrs. Dennett was standing on the platform waiting for the train to come, when an old man stepped up to her and said: “Excuse me, madam, but I want to thank you for something.”
“Thank me?” she questioned.
“Yes, ma’am. I used to be ticket collector at Trenton, and whenever you went by you always gave me a cheerful smile and a ‘good morning,’ and you do not know what a difference it made to me. Sunshine or rain it was always the same, and I thought to myself, ‘I wonder where she gets that smile from: one cannot always be happy, and yet she seems to be, and I knew that smile came from inside.’
“Then one morning you came by, and you had a little Bible in your hand, and I wondered if perhaps that was where your smile came from. On my way home from work that night I bought a Bible, and have been reading it ever since. I have found the Lord Jesus Christ as my Saviour, and now I can smile too, and I want to thank you.”
“For Thou exceedest all the fame
Our ears have ever heard;
How happy we who know Thy name,
And trust Thy faithful Word.”
ML 06/23/1968