p. 12 | Too Busy to Be Kind

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Feb 2, 1905

Too Busy to Be Kind

THERE is much food for thought in the words, “too busy to be kind”—a something, perhaps, that will “strike home” to each and every one of us. The Young Woman says: “We hear so much about making every minute count, and always having some work or course of study for spare hours, and having our activities all systematized, that there is no place left for small wayside kindnesses. We go to see the sick neighbor, and relieve the poor neighbor, but for the common, every-day neighbor who has fallen by the way, so far as we can see, we haven’t a minute to spare. The old-fashioned exchange of garden-flowers over the back fence, and friendly chats about domestic matters, help to brighten weary days, and bring more cheer than many a sermon. We ought not to be too busy to inquire about the girl at school, or to be interested in the letter from the boy at sea. It is a comfort to the mother’s lonely heart to feel that somebody else cares for that which means much to her. May no one be able to say of us that he was too busy to be kind.”—Selected.