Christmas Inspirational
Story
What Goes Around Comes Around
His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer.One
day,while trying to make a living for his family, he heard
a cry for help coming from a nearby bog.
He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his
waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling
to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could
have been a slow and terrifying death. The next day, a fancy
carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings.
An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself
as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.
"I want to repay you," said the nobleman.
"You saved my son's life." "No, I can't
accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer
replied, waving off the offer.
At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of
the family hovel. "Is that your son?" the nobleman
asked. "Yes," the farmer replied proudly. "I'll
make you a deal. Let me take him and give him a good education.
If the lad is anything like his father, he'll grow to a
man you can be proud of.
"And that he did. In time, Farmer Fleming's son graduated
from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went
on to
become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander
Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin. Years afterward,
the nobleman's son was stricken with pneumonia. What saved
him? Penicillin. The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph
Churchill. His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill.
Someone once said: What goes around comes around. Work
like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been
hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
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