The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-19

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| latter to punch his ticket twice. He
| insisted on Mr.. Rogers taking the
| money, but the latter laughingly de-
| clined.
Being a person Of stern business
| habits the shipper declared:
| you must take it. I insist on your
acceptance of this cents"
When Mr.. Rogers continued to de-
cline the cattlenlan finally said:
well, take 1t and help build your
| church with it,"
The other held forth his palm and
| took the cents. The<incident worked
on his mind all that night.
when I arrived home" said Mr..
Rogers yesterday, my wife asked me
how much I had collected toward the
church fund during the day. Seven
you're poor collector. I did much
better than that Whereupon I began
; to think. AS l lay in bed that night
the number seven seemed to run
| through my head so I could not go to
sleep. I thought Of all the mentions Of
seven in the scriptures.
Mentioned Often in Bible.
IT thought of the passage in Revela-
tons 1-20-Joh vision-which
reads: The mystery Of the seven
stars which thou sawest in my right
hand and the seven golden CANDLE
sticks. The seven stars are the angels
Of the seven churches and the seven
candlestickS which thou saWeSt are the
seven churches
Il thought of Pharaoh's dream Of
| the seven fat cattle which came out Of
| the Nile and Of the seven lean cattle
which came cut of the Nile and Of the
seven lean cattle devouring the seven
Eat cattle; OF the seven full ears Of
corn which came up out of the Nile
and Of the seven poor ears Of corn
that came up cut of the Nile and Of
the seven poor ears devouring the sew
en- full ears; of Jcseph's Interpretation
Of the dream to the effect that it fore
told period of seven years of plenty,
to be followed by seven years of fam
inc.
again thought of the Lords in
structions to Joshua of the way to
take Jericho-to march around the
city with seven priests blowing seven
rams horns for seven days and on the
seventh day to march around seven
times and the walls would fall.
Through my mind as fell into slum-
Der passed many more lines of the
holy writ-the letters written to the
seven churches of Asia, the building
of the world by the Lord in six days
and Of his resting on the seventh, and
my dreams that night were of the
holiness Of the number seven among
the Jews.
Is an Omen of Good.
when arose next morning I de-
termined that the little matter of sew
en- cents contained am omen which
pointed to the solutiona of our finan-
ctal problem. Gradually the thing
worked on my mind until by the time
I arrived at the office itChad taken the
II decided that we could erect our
church by means OF 7-cent collections
and without running into debt dol
lar. Later in the day Twas sitting on
the fence with four Or five of the boys
and it occurred to me that now was
the time to put my plan into opera
ton.
"Giving them each one of the firms
little leather memorandum books I
told them we would proceed to arrest
every passer-by and fine him cents
for the benefit of the Central Church
Of Christ building fund. In half an
hour we had arrested enough people to
net us $2.5G In fines. This was on Sat
urday, and / tell you felt proud when
marched home with my little coin
sack bullying with pennies and nickels
and showed my wife that 7-cent col
lections were not to be scoffed at
Seven. Angels Start Out.
cat church next day turned in the
$2.50 and explained how it had been
collected. Ever ybody entered Into the