Stories and Anecdotes - Bishop Edwin H. Hughes

When Bishop Edwin H. Hughes of the Methodist church was a young preacher, he served a rural parish in the middle west. One day, in his sermon, he said that we own nothing, it all belongs to God. After the service, a farmer took the preacher home for dinner, and after a sumptuous meal the two men walked out to see the acres of farm land. The farmer told how he and his wife started out without a dime from anyone, but working together possessed this farm. “If we don’t own this farm, who does?” was the farmer’s question to the preacher. The preacher replied kindly, “Ask me that question one hundred years from today.”