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The Greatest Folly

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 24, 1874

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 44, No. 22.

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The Greatest Folly.

The following is old, but it will bear reading often: A wealthy man was one day so much amused by the wit of his foolish attendant, that he gave him his cane, but told him that wherever he should find a greater fool than himself he must return the cane. In process of time the rich man neared his death. Sending for this fool, he bade him farewell. “Where are you going?” asked the fool. “To another world.” “When will you return?” “Oh never!” “Have you made preparation for the journey?” “Alas! I have not.” “Then, master, take back your cane; never could there be a folly so great as that.”