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A Rich Man

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
September
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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A tax collector one day carne to a poor minister dn order to assess the valué oí his property and determina the amount of taxes. The minister asked the man to be seated. Then the latter took out his book and asked: "How much property do you possess?" "I am a rich man," answered the minister. The official quickly sharpened his pencil and asked intently: "Well, what, do you own?" The pastor replied: "I am the possessor of a Saviov who' earned for me life everlasting, and who has prepared a place for us hi the eternal city." "What else?" ''Healthy and obedient childreD." "What else?" "A merry heart, which enables me to pass through life joyfully." "What else?" "That is all," replied the minister. The official closed his book, arose, took his nat, and said: "You are, indeed, a rich man, sir, but your property it not subject to taxation."

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News