“The Lord has commanded us to lay by and store.” That’s what Orville Hall would always say on Sunday just ahead of passing round the collection plate at church. His words were, ever and always, just this and just the same. I was but a child then and puzzled at why God’s wanting us to lay by and store should be remarked right as we were about to give up some of what we’d laid by to the church. It seemed to me that if we took this command seriously, we might want to give a...
