If I Were Rich | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 3, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 46.

"If I Were Rich."

ONE evening, passing along a crowded street, I heard one boy saying to another, "If I were rich, I wouldn’t—" and then the rest of the sentence was lost as I hurried on with the throng. But I have wondered often since how that sentence was finished. Did the boy say, "If I were rich, I wouldn’t snub my poor relations;" or, "If I were rich, I wouldn’t spend all my money on myself;" or, "If I were rich, I wouldn’t work any more," or what?

We cannot know; but there is one thing quite certain. Whatever that boy does now that he is poor, he would do if he were rich. If he is generous now, he would be generous then. If he is mean now, he would be mean then. If he works faithfully now, he would work with fidelity then. For "he that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much."—Sel.