My First Experience With Credit

Matthew 5:42 (KJV) Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow from thee turn not thou away.

"Mother was sick. We didn't have any bread. Mother told Nannie we didn't have anymore bread and she was sick and not able to wash and get any money. I cried and worried might nigh all night studying and worrying about where we could get something to eat. The next morning I went to town early to a small store. I told the merchant of the store that I wanted to buy a barrel of flour on a credit and charge it to me and when I get to work I would pay him. The old merchant looked over his glasses and said, "Tom, I'll sell you this barrel of flour and if you pay me for this, come back and get anything else in the store on credit but if you don't pay me for this don't ever ask for anything else on credit. I went to the old man who had raised this merchant's wife and told him what I had done and wanted to know if he had anything on the farm I could do to earn some money. He put me to cutting corn stalks while he was plowing the ground, 12 hours a day for 50 cents a day. I cut stalks a week. He let me off a little early on Saturday evening. I took my $3.00 he paid me, in my pocket and went down to the store. When I went in to the store the merchant said, "Can I do something for you?" I told him I wanted to pay some on my account. I give him the $3.00. I shore felt good about that.