WHAT would you do if you found a bag lying on the street containing $25,000 in small denominations? A truck driver in Brooklyn, New York, recently faced this very situation. The bag had fallen unnoticed from an armored security car during a minor accident.

For turning this sum over to the police, the truck driver took a lot of ribbing from his fellow workers who reminded him of what they could and would have done with the money had they found it. Detectives investigating the incident stated that the truck driver’s honesty was “amazing for this town.” One further stated: “I’ve been on the force for eighteen years and I’ve never seen anything like it. And if I’m on the force another eighteen years I don’t think I’ll ever see it again.”

Take, for example, the Brooklyn deliveryman who found that $25,000 bag of money and took it to the police. What was it that caused him to do so? The report in the Long Island Press quotes him as saying: “As a Jehovah’s Witness, I try to uphold the teachings of the Bible in my daily life. We point to Hebrews 13:18.” There the Bible says of Christians: “We trust we have an honest conscience, as we wish to conduct ourselves honestly in all things.”