5毛7分钱建起的教堂

从来没有救世主

在美国费城有一很小的教会，有一次这教会在上主日学的时候，有一个穿的很破烂的七、八岁叫海蒂的小女孩，她在走廊那里哭，牧师走过来问她为什么哭？她说：“主日学的教室已坐满了人，再没有座位，所以我进不去。”

牧师听了很受感动，说：“我领你进去。”牧师进去后，告诉主日学的老师这个孩子非常渴慕神的话语，能不能给她一个座位，让她坐在这里面？这个孩子就坐下了。

上了第一堂主日学的课程，这个孩子有一颗感恩的心，特别的感恩，她就做了一个祷告，她说：“主啊，我要存钱建一个大教堂，让像我这样的穷孩子都有机会上主日学！”

这个孩子后来成为这个牧师的好朋友，但令人意想不到并极感惋惜的是，这个孩子得了一场大病便离世了，才八岁就在主里睡了！

牧师就为她举行了追思礼拜，在追思礼拜的时候，发现她的遗物中有一个小铁盒子，这个铁盒里面有五十七分钱（美金），还有一张纸条，写给牧师的。纸条上说：“牧师，这是我献给神的全部，要把我们小小的教堂建大一点，让更多的孩子能够上主日学！”这是她惟一的遗言。当牧师看到这张纸条的时候，眼泪就止不住流了出来。

主日崇拜的时候牧师就把那个小纸条和那个破旧的钱包放在讲台上，然后就告诉大家说，我们要完成这个孩子的心愿，神要通过这五十七分钱来做出超乎我们所求所想的大事，神要通过这五十七分钱来祝福我们的教会！

当那天信息结束的时候，下面坐着一名新闻记者，他就把这个故事写出来登在报纸上，没想到全国的人看到都非常的感动，很多人都为这个教会捐款。

有一个费城的大地产商人，他捐了一大块地，在费城是最好的地段；他把这块地卖给了这个教会，价钱就是五十七分钱。

然后在五年的时间里面，教会的弟兄姊妹同心的捐献，这五十七分钱变成了 25 万美元，那是在 1900 年的时候，可能相当于今天的上千万，当然这个孩子的愿望实现了。

今天在费城，你会看到一个很大的教堂能坐 3300 人，这教会名叫圣殿教会，他们也建立了在费城的一座著名大学，名叫天普大学。

健康美丽财富

感动泥！

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回复 1# 从来没有救世主

温暖和感动！
:crying:

从来没有救世主

http://library.temple.edu/collections/scrc/hattie
"THE HISTORY OF FIFTY-SEVEN CENTS"Sermon By Russell H. ConwellSunday Morning, December 1, 1912.

We are here to unveil this picture of Hattie May Wiatt, a little girl who died in 1886. Years have gone rapidly by, but she still speaks. We intend to put this picture in the pastor's study, in the most prominent place, and keep it there through the years to come, that people as they pass through may ask: "What meaneth that picture?" And the story, simple and wonderful, may be told.

Little Hattie May Wiatt lived in a house near the church in which we then worshipped, at Berks and Mervine, which is now occupied by the Christian Church. It was a small church and was crowded, tickets of admission were obtained sometimes weeks in advance for every service. The Sunday school was as crowded as the rest of the congregation, and one day when I came down to the church, to attend Sabbath school, I found a number of children outside. They were greatly disturbed because they could not get in, on account of the crowd of children already in the Sunday school rooms of the church, and little Hattie May Wiatt, who lived near by, had brought her books and a contribution, and was standing by the gate, hesitating whether to go back home or wait and try to get in later. I took her up in my arms, lifted her to my shoulder, and then as she held on to my head - an embrace I never can forget - I carried her through the crowd in the hall, into the Sunday school room, and seated her in a chair away back in a dark corner. The next morning as I came down to the church from my home I came by their house and she was going up the street to school. As we met, I said: "Hattie, we are going to have a larger Sunday school room soon", and she said: "I hope you will. It is so crowded that I am afraid to go there alone". "Well", I replied, "When we get the money with which to erect a school building we are going to construct one large enough to get all the little children in, and we are going to begin very soon to raise the money for it". It was only in my mind as a kind of imaginary vision, but I wished to make conversation with the child. The next that I heard about it was that Hattie was very sick, and they asked me to come in and see the child, which I did, and prayed with her. I walked up the street, praying for the little girl's recovery, and yet all the time with the conviction that it was not to be.

Hattie May Wiatt died. She had gathered 57 cents - some have written 54 - which was left as her contribution towards securing another building for the children. After the funeral the mother handed me the little bag with the gathered 57 cents. I took it to the church and stated that we had the first gift toward the new Sunday school building; that little Hattie May Wiatt, who had gone on into the Shining World, had left behind her this gift towards it. I then changed all the money into pennies and offered them for sale. I received about $250 for the 57 pennies; and 54 of those cents were returned to me by the people who bought them. I then had them put in a frame where they could be seen and exhibited them, and we received by a sale of the $250 changed into pennies money enough to buy the next house north of the church at Berks and Mervine. That house was bought by the Wiatt Mite Society, which was organized for the purpose of taking the 57 cents and enlarging on them sufficiently to buy the property for the Primary Department of the Sunday school. In the Wiatt Mite Society was Mr. Edward O. Elliott ( now one of our trustees) who has charge of this picture, and was then a member.

The portrait of Hattie May Wiatt appears by courtesy of the Baptist Temple Church in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.

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回复 1# 从来没有救世主


    从版，该怎样感谢你呢.........？

还是感谢上帝吧，愿他深深滴祝福你：因为你把这么好的分享放在这里，但愿能放进读者心里，去生根发芽——结果子(l)

刀近平

当年的美国是以白人为绝对主导，富强、优雅、文明、强势；现在的美国杂七杂八的，又黑又黄又白，堕落是肯定的。

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回复 6# ~!@#$%^&*()_+

因为他们离神远了，那么鬼就有机会了

kenchiang

感激,感动,感谢! 收藏了.

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回复 8# kenchiang


   没错，谢谢小丛放在这里分享