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"As related by Evangelist Theopolis, B. Larimore, there was an illustrious author, preacher, lecturer, scholar and educator who was in Florida for his health one winter until January. He did not have the money to stay longer. He did not make his needs known. From there he "plunged into Northern winter" for his home. When he reached the railway station, $1.00 would have taken him in a closed carriage. But he thought he, of necessity, must save 90 cents, so stood in the cold waiting for a street car, by which he got near home. From there he walked the remainder of the distance over the snow. "One week from that cold night he was ready for the grave." But when it was "forever too late to bless the fallen hero, his coffin and grave were deluge with floral offerings, any one of which cost more than $100.00 (the amount that would have kept him in Florida until spring, F. H.)" It was believed that there were multitudes of men and women who "that very day would have given $100.00 to restore him to life and health." Evangelist Larimore further says of Burns, Scotland's greatest poet: "He lived in poverty and died in want, having actually begged bread. Many who refused to give him bread, gladly gave gold liberally to build a costly monument to perpetuate his memory -- or, to tell the truth, to gratify Scottish vanity. When his aged mother saw the monument, she said, as she brushed blinding tears away: 'Ah, Robby, ye asked them for br'ad an' they gie ye a stun'." |
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