The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 6, June, 1881Various
History
The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 6, June, 1881
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
When Mrs. Vinton learned of the poverty of the donor, her heart was
touched, and she said: “This is holy money and must not go into
the general fund.” So she laid it aside by itself. Soon afterward,
while narrating the circumstance to a Hartford gentleman, he said
to her: “It is cold weather; ‘Frankie’ should have a wrapper,” and
he handed her a ten dollar bill, which she wrapped around the five
franc piece, “to keep him warm.” The next day another ten dollar
bill was given by Deacon Day, of Hartford, “To buy ‘Frankie’ an
over-coat, as the weather had grown colder,” while Mrs. Kent, of
Suffield, happened to remember: “These are stinging nights to sleep
alone; ‘Frankie’ must have a bed-fellow,” and a five dollar gold
piece was laid by his side. Mrs. Vinton then said: “If ‘Frankie’
had a few more wrappers I would send him to Boston.” So she
wrote out “Frankie’s” history and forwarded it to Dr. Ives, with
an appeal for other articles of clothing. The good doctor read
the letter from his pulpit, and thirty dollars were secured and
forwarded to Mrs. Vinton. She now felt that she could furnish a
suitable outfit to enable “Frankie” to appear among city people,
so she sent him first to Boston for the purchase of Bibles for the
Karens, and next to Philadelphia for a box of medicine, also for
the Karens, and afterward to a Mrs. Thompson to buy some eye-water
for the poor heathen, who suffer so much from the glare of the
sun. All the good people where he visited were glad enough to see
him, but none of them seemed to care to keep him long, so he was
sent back every time with the supplies he wanted, to Mrs. Vinton.
Just on the occasion of his last return, Rev. Mr. Vinton came back
from a tour among the churches where he had been pleading for his
mission in India, and his wife told him “Frankie’s” story. After
hearing it, he said: “I, too, have had a donation which has touched
my heart. At Norwich, a Mrs. Chapell came to me and tearfully said,
handing me a little roll of money: ‘This belonged to my poor boy. I
cannot put it into the general fund, but will you, Mr. Vinton, take
it and apply it to some special purpose?’”
Mrs. Vinton at once said: “That, too, is holy money, it will do to
go with my ‘Frankie.’ This money shall build a house for the Lord
in Burmah, and it shall be called ‘Frankie’s Chapel.’”
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