A lesson in frugality

One of Isaac Black's grandsons, Vernon Black, relates this: "I believe the best lesson I ever had in being economical or thrifty was one winter I helped him in the flour mill. We decided to save every kernel of corn that we found that didn't found its way into the grinder. After the milling season was over, we had about one gallon of corn. He then proceeded to tell me he would dry it and give it to some family who was not so fortunate as us that if we had let the corn go maybe those people would have had to go hungry a few days. And that is the way the Lord would have us do it."