Story Of Chickens And Church Collection by William Barclay

  There was a lady farmer who had a special way of supporting her church. One day she came up to the parish priest and put two hundreddollar into his hands for the parish building fund.
   The pastor looked surprised and so the lady explained, "That money is actually from my chickens. You see, I'm against working on the Lord's Day. But my chickens don't know any better. They keep on laying eggs on Sundays too. Somehow it does not seem right to me to be making money off of their Sunday work. So I lay aside all the eggs they lay on Sundays and I sell them separately, and give the money to the Church."


--William Barclay