TRUE HONESTY

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Apr 22, 1875

At a slave-market in one of the Southern States, in the days of those monstrosities, a smart, active colored boy was put up for sale. A kind master who pitied his condition, not wishing him to have a cruel owner, went up to him, and said:—

"If I buy you, will you be honest?"

The boy with a look that baffled description, replied:—

"I will be honest, whether you buy me or not."

How many would, like the colored boy, be honest whether circumstances were favorable or not?

"I cannot be poor," said Bernard, "so long as God is rich, for all his riches are mine."