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The Grace of Human Tenderness

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 20, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 29.

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The Grace of Human Tenderness

By F. B. Meyer

TENDERNESS does not mean weakness, softness, effeminateness. It is consistent with strength, manliness, truth, and bravery. It does not show itself alone in the touch, but in unselfishness, thoughtfulness, considerateness, forbearance, patience, long-suffering. But however it shows itself, it is as the bloom on the peach, as spring showers on the earth, as the music of the angels stealing down on the plains of Bethlehem. You may not have much of this world's wealth to distribute, but you may give something far better, and spend a useful and beneficent life, if you will practise this lesson of shedding around you the grace of human tenderness in word and act and by the spirit of your every-day life.—F. B. Meyer.