A faithful man will be richly blessed………….

A faithful man will be richly blessed………….

Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, was a very curious, but also a very clever man. One day he rang the bell for his page to come to him. A page is a little boy who runs errands in great houses, and waits upon people who live there. But when the king rang, no one came to answer the bell. The king then opened the door and found the page had gone to sleep. He saw a letter hanging out of his pocket and, being curious, took it out and read it. It was a letter from the boy's mother. She had thanked him for sending her part of his wages; and said God would reward him, if he continued to serve the king well. Having read this note, the king went out, got some money and slipped it into the boy's pockets. Then he went back to his room and rang so loudly that the page awoke. When he came into the room, the king said, "Surely you have been asleep." The boy stammered out an excuse, and putting his hands into his pockets found the money there. Some boys would have been glad at this, and said nothing about it to anyone. But this page was an honest lad, who knew he had not earned the money, and thought it did not belong to him. So he drew it out, pale and trembling but unable to speak a word. What is the matter said the king. "Alas, your majesty," said the boy, falling upon his knees, "Some one wishes to do me harm. I know nothing about this money which was in my pocket." The king was much pleased with his honesty, and told him to send the money to his mother, as a reward for bringing up her son so well. We never lose by being honest in everything we do. If this boy had said nothing about the money the king had put in his pocket he would not have been trusted so much afterwards. But when the king had found out how honest he was, he took care to help him as much as he could. A faithful man will be richly blessed, but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished. Proverbs 28:20.