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You see, I was running away that night. I had in my car a very large sum of money, which I had
stolen from my employer. I want you to know, sir, that I had good Christian parents. But I had
forgotten their teaching and had gotten in with the wrong crowd. I knew I had made a terrible
mistake.

But you and your wife were so nice to me. That night in your home, I began to see what I was
wrong. Before morning, I made a decision. Next day, I turned back. I went back to my employer

and made a clean breast of it. I gave back all the money and threw myself on his mercy.

He could have prosecuted me and sent me to prison for many years. But he is a good man. He

took me back in my old job, and I have never strayed again. I’m mar ried now, with a lovely wife
and two fine children. I have worked my way to a very good position with my com pany. I am not
wealthy, but I am comfortably well off.

I could reward you handsomely for what you did for me that night. But I don’t believe that is
what you’d want. So I have established a fund to help others who have made the same mistake I
did. In this way, I hope I may pay for what I have done.

God bless you, sir, and your good wife, who helped me more than you knew.

I walked into the house and handed the letter to my wife. As she read it, I saw the tears begin to
fill her eyes. With the most serene look on her face, she laid the letter aside.

“For I was a Stranger, and ye took Me in,” she quoted. “I was hungered, and ye fed Me; I was in
prison, and ye vis ited Me.”

- Hartley F Dailey

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

- Aesop