No good deed is ever forgotten.
Children's Story★★★★Illustration 1. No good deed is ever forgotten. An incident is related of a little girl whose mother was a sick widow. She stopped a young man on the street and asked him to buy her chestnuts.
He was poor but he could not withstand her pitiful look. He handed her a coin and said, “I cannot use your chestnuts, but you are welcome to this.”
She thanked him and hurried away. Twenty years passed. The little girl grew to womanhood and became the wife of a banker. Passing the library one day, she saw a man with her husband.
She recognized him as the man who had been kind to her years before. When he had gone, she enquired his errand.
Her husband told her that the man came to see if he would give him a position in the bank. His wife said to him, “Will you give him the position?” He replied, “I don’t know.” She said, “I wish you would.”
And then she told him of her poverty and the man’s generosity. The man who had applied for the position sat that night beside his sick wife’s bed when a note was brought to him.
Reading it, he exclaimed, “We shall not starve! I have the position.’ He found with the note a two hundred and fifty dollar check, with the words, “In grateful remembrance of the silver piece a kind stranger gave the little chestnut girl twenty years ago.” (Christian Herald.)
The point
A young man's kindness to a poor girl leads her years later to ensure his financial security, illustrating that good deeds have lasting returns.