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The King and the Stable Boy

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 3, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 14.

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The King and the Stable Boy

A KING walking out one morning, met a lad at a stable door, and asked him, “Well, boy, what do you do? what do they pay you?” “I help in the stable,” replied the lad; “but I have nothing except victuals and clothes.” “Be content,” replied the king, “I have no more.”
All that the richest possess beyond food, raiment, and habitation, they have but the keeping or the disposing, not the present enjoyment of. A plough-boy who thinks and feels correctly has enough to make him contented; and if a king have a discontented spirit, he will find some plea for indulging it.—Selected.