How often in the word of God we read of the sin of disobedience! Disobedience to God's commands and disobedience to parents are the sins spoken of specially in the Bible. It is spoken of in Timothy as one of the sins of the last days.
Two servants of an Indian Rajah once paid a dreadful penalty for the sin of disobedience. One of them had been strictly ordered to keep away from a cave in a wood near the residence of the Rajah, and also to prevent any other person from going there. This servant, however, instead of resolving at once to obey the command he had received, began to consider the probable reason of his having been forbidden to enter the cave, and persuaded himself that his master had a great treasure hidden there.
He, at length, resolved to get possession of it, Knowing that he could not roll away the stone from the mouth of the cave himself, he communicated his design to a fellow-servant, who willingly engaged in the plot, on being promised a part of the booty.
When the night came, and the silvery moon was pursuing her course through the heavens, they stole quietly into the wood, and approached the cave, thinking only of the manner in which they should dispose of their treasure.
But, alas! what sudden calamities come upon evildoers! No sooner had they, with great labor, rolled away the stone, than a tremendous tiger, with eyes glaring in fury, sprang upon them, and tore them to pieces!