A REWARD OF GIVING

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 13, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 11.

A REWARD OF GIVING.

No good deed is ever forgotten. An incident is related of a little girl whose mother was a sick widow, and who stopped a young man on the street and begged him to buy her chestnuts. He was poor, but could not withstand her pitiful look. He handed her a coin, and said, “I can not use your chestnuts, but you are welcome to this.” She thanked him, and then hurried away. Twenty years passed. The little girl grew to womanhood and became the wife of a banker. Passing the library one evening, she saw a man with her husband whom she recognized as the man who, years before, had been kind to her. When he had gone, she inquired his errand.

“He came to see if I would give him a vacant position in the bank.”

“Will you?”

“I don’t know.”

“I wish you would,” she said, and then told him the story of her poverty and the man’s generosity.

The man sat beside his sick wife’s bed that night, when a liveried servant brought him a note.

“We shall not starve,” he exclaimed; “I have the position.”

He opened the note and found inclosed a $250 check, with the words, “In grateful remembrance of the little silver piece a kind stranger gave the little chestnut girl twenty years ago.”—Christian Herald.