' One who had only two
or three sheep promised one of them. My little girl, Sherin, had
asked, a few days before, for a new dress. She now sent word to me
that she would do without it for a year, if I would give the money
for the gospel. I cannot fully describe the spirit of the meeting:
we went out wondering and congratulating each other at having
witnessed such a pleasant sight. At the evening meeting one said, 'I
heard in the market what you were doing; I give a gun, the price of
which was seven and a half tomans.' Some gave for themselves, and
others for their wives and children. Moses gave four monats for his
brother's children. There were tithes and sixths, fifths and
fourths, thirds and halves, of crops of hay and grapes. Priest
Abraham said, 'We say a thief will never own a house. Did you ever
see one that had wealth? We are thieves, and therefore are so poor.
We have robbed God. I will give a tithe of my vineyard.' Another
replied, 'And I of every thing.' And a man, who had before given one
quarter of his vineyard, now gave the half. A widow, who had nothing
but a cow, pledged a hepta [four pounds] of butter.
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