Kindness
One
day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay
his way
through
school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry.
He
decided he
would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he
lost his nerve
when a
lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal
he asked for
a drink of
water. She thought he looked hungry so brought him
a large glass
of
milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, "How much
do I owe you?"
"You don't
owe me anything," she replied. "Mother has taught
us never to
accept pay
for a kindness." He said..... "Then I thank
you from my heart."
As Howard
Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically,
but his
faith in God
and man was strong also. He had been ready to give
up and quit.
Years
later that young woman became critically ill. The local doctors
were
baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where they called
in
specialists to study her rare disease.
Dr. Howard
Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard
the
name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes.
Immediately
he rose and went down the hall of the hospital to her room.
Dressed
in his
doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at
once.
He went
back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her
life.
From that day he gave special attention to the case. After a
long struggle,
the battle was won.
Dr. Kelly
requested the business office to pass the final bill to him
for
approval. He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge and
the bill
was sent to her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure
it would take
the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and
something
caught her attention on the side of the bill. She read these
words....."Paid
in full with one glass of milk". (Signed) Dr.Howard
Kelly.
Tears of
joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed: "Thank
You, God,
that Your love has spread abroad through human hearts and hands."
Special
Note: Doctor Kelly was a world famous cardiologist at
Johns
Hopkins Hospital who (along with Dr. Helen Taussig) developed
and
perfected the blue baby surgery to save millions of children born
with this
birth defect (a hole in their hearts).
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