A TELEPHONE CALL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1091, 1 April 1911, Page 15

A TELEPHONE CALL.

AND.A CHEQUE FOR .£IOOO.

Bishop Welldon (Dean of Manchester), at a meeting of St. Map; s Hospital io Women and Child™, hold at J anchesier recently, in handing over a cheque toi £m t'o tho Lord .Mayor of Manchester, told tho following story:— ' "I was sitting in my study one morning when I was runs up on the telephone, with a request that I would go and see an old gentleman in a distant part ot the city. I made my way to the house indicated, and was shown upstairs into a room where I saw an elderly gentleman lying on a.sofa. I-said to him. think-'-you -want-to' see. me <~ He replied tint he.-did,', rind:-said: that he ivasmot a Manchester, mail. -.After.-Some conversation' he- remarked that,he .-had ..been a man of lmsiness, that God had prospered him, and that he would like to make some acknowledgment of the goodness which he had experienced. Eventually ho nut his hand into his pocket and. producing a cheque, said, 'I should like "to give vou this.' It was a cheque for croon "I said, 'Will you tell mo what you wish mo to do with this money?' and ho sajd,,;'You cap do like with'it; 'Th» only ooiifl||utp,;([;jmako is '\liEt"m'\; naine"ls-i'»cVcr'v:to : übe mentioned.' "