One Minute Testimonials: Chocalate On Her Conscience

During the early years of my mother’s married life, she had a young girl, Ida, helping with the housework and babysitting.

One day mother left the girl with my four-year old brother for the afternoon. When mother returned she noticed that a box of chocolates on the library table had disappeared—only an empty box remained.

She questioned Ida, who said that my brother had eaten them all while she was upstairs cleaning. Mother accepted this explanation, gave small Bill a little lecture, and dismissed the matter from her mind.

Eighteen years later, and 1500 miles away, we were surprised (there were now three children) to receive in the mail a box of candy from a Mrs. William Brown. Mother puzzled over it until the next day when a letter came, explaining that Mrs. Brown was once Ida, the hired girl of long ago.

She went on to say that she lied that day about the candy as she had eaten the chocolates herself. She had accepted Christ as Savior, joined a church, and wanted to make restitution and seek forgiveness, where possible, for wrongs of her old life. Eighteen years had passed but she still remembered the box of chocolates.