Dr. Smollett’s Guinea by E. A. A.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 10, 1871

Dr. Smollett’s Guinea.

By E. A. A.

DR. SMOLLETT, the celebrated physician and writer, was once solicited by a wretched-looking beggar to give him a shilling. By mistake, the doctor handed him a guinea. The beggar turned away, but soon discovered the error. He hobbled back, and returned the guinea. Dr. Smollett was so pleased with the man’s honesty, that he gave him another guinea, saying as he did so, “What a lodging honesty has taken up with! I would rather be that man than a dishonest king,”

It pleases God to see us honest. If you always live in the fear of God, a blessing will attend you. We must not think that, because nobody is near, we can do wrong and not be wicked. Said a little boy who had gone with his father to steal corn, after they had looked all around,—“Father, you did not look up.” The father did not steal any corn that day.

God help you always to look up, and do always only those things which are pleasing in his sight.—E. A. A.