"GIVING IS JOY." 
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Germans food became so scarce as to be almost 
unobtainable. The story of such suffering and 
hardship stirred the scholars very much, and they 
resolved to make gifts to the fund for assisting the 
distressed Poles. Not many of them had money to 
play with. To buy singlets, books and little extras 
when required, claimed pretty well all they pos- 
sessed. And yet out of their poverty they felt they 
must do something. Some sold books they had 
finished with, or thought they had ; others disposed 
of yams, or some article of clothing they felt they 
might manage without; and in the end the pro- 
ceeds of these sales, with the gifts of pocket-money, 
totalled more than eight pounds. They gave freely, 
in the glad spirit of sacrifice, and felt Giving is 
Joy." I often had callers at the mission-house. 
All in the district timed their visits for when they 
knew I was likely to be at liberty. Their errands 
were of a widely different character. One of the 
most memorable of such calls was paid to me by 
an old lady who was nearly blind. She was one 
of our oldest church members, and had been 
threatened with blindness for a long while. Indeed, 
for quite a time she was so blind that her grandson 
had to lead her about wherever she went. Then, 
in answer to prayer, so she said, her sight improved 
sufficiently for her to go about unattended. vSo 
great was her joy and gratitude that she called on 
me to say that she had brought her grandson, 
Thomas, to give him to the Lord's service. Her 
words to me were : Take Thomas for your Insti- 
tute, teach him book and all good fashion, that 
he can become a missionary for God in his own 
country." Now Thomas, by helping fishermen 
