The church then purchased the lot and held another prayer meeting to
determine the second time what to do with the Wyatt fifty-seven cents.
It was unanimously decided to organize a "Wyatt Mite Society" to invest
the money. There were to be fifty-seven children in the society, and
each was to invest one of the pennies so as to secure the largest
possible amount for the new church. It seems almost miraculous that
wherever a child tried to sell the penny not one would buy it after
hearing the story, but nearly all did give a liberal donation. One lady
gave fifteen hundred dollars. Finally, the pennies all came back, were
put in a coin frame, and kept as a sacred souvenir. Then joyful
enthusiasm seized upon the people and hurried them along in many
different enterprises for raising money. One Sabbath the pastor was
overpersuaded to exchange with Doctor Pierce of Mount Holly, and the
joyful people presented the pastor, on his return, with a subscription
list of ten thousand dollars. But to that account the practical and
critical business man can answer that in any enterprise enthusiasm, hard
work, and economy secure success almost invariably. So that even the
matter of raising one hundred and nine thousand dollars by a people, all
poor, industrious persons, may not be absolutely convincing to the
skeptic who questions the personal interference of God in answer to the
call of his children. But there was another phase of the history of that
campaign which seems to be absolutely unaccountable on any other
hypothesis but the direct and special interference of superhuman
intelligence.
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