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Pearl, Of Great Price: Sold Cheaply Through Ignorance
One of the first diamonds found on the South African diamond fields
was picked up by the child of a small farmer as he was playing beside
a brook near his father's cottage. Some months afterwards, a peddler
came to the cottage with a pack on his back. As he was displaying his
wares, the peddler spied the stone on a shelf in the room. He took it
up and examined it, and then asked the mother what she would take for
it. She pointed to the child and said, laughing, "It belongs to that
bairn, not to me." The peddler then offered the boy a box of wooden
soldiers worth a few cents in exchange for the stone, and the child
gladly accepted the offer.
That stone, was a very precious jewel. The peddler took it to
Capetown where he sold it for a large sum to a jeweler. When the
jeweler sent it to Europe to be sold, he obtained $125,000 for it, and
it now adorns a royal neck.
Neither the child nor its parents were wise enough to know its
value. Similarly, multitudes barter away, for a mess of pottage, the
Pearl of Great Price which is within the reach of all. --Topical
Illustrations
