A preacher, doctor and lawyer were called to the deathbed of a rich friend. The rich man said they were the only three people he could trust to send him off to his reward with some of his money on him as he was sure he would have need of money in the afterlife. All three men agreed to put an envelope with $100,000 of the old man's money in the casket with him at his funeral. At his funeral each of the three men put the envelope into the casket as they had been asked to do.

A month later the preacher called a meeting with his other two friends and confessed that he had only included $20,000 of the old man's money in the envelope and had given the other $80,000 to a missionary in Africa for his ministry there.

The doctor broke down and admitted he had only included $30,000 of the old man's money in his envelope and had sent the other $70,000 to a medical missionary in South America.

The lawyer was incensed and told his friends how ashamed he was of their dishonesty toward their old friend and assured them that he had put his own personal check for the entire $100,000 in the casket.