One day a father told his children the following parable:
"The superintendent of an island was one day called by his lord, the king, to give an account of his administration.
"The friends in whom he had placed his trust let him go alone and did not move from their homes; others whom he had also trusted accompanied him to the ship; but others still, whom he had trusted very little, accompanied him all the way to the king's throne and spoke in his favour winning for him the sympathy of the king."
The children did not understand who these friends were: "Man also has three kinds of friends on earth, but most times he comes to know them only when he is called from this world to give an account of his actions. The first of these friends, that is, money and earthly goods stay behind; others, that is, relatives, accompany him only as far as the tomb; the third, that is, the good works, follow him into eternity right to the throne of God where each one of us will be rewarded according to his actions, and even a drop of water handed to one who is thirsty will not remain unrewarded.
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