Praise and Kindness at Home

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 12, 1911

Praise and Kindness at Home

“Do not be niggardly of praise; it will inspire to better deeds and create an ambition for better living. Censure may utterly discourage the fallen, and certainly can never lift them up. Avoid giving all your smiles and politeness to the transient guest, the passer-by in the outside world. One of the most pitiful things I ever heard was the heart-broken wish of the little child of a man famous for beautiful manners in public: ‘O, wouldn’t it be nice if he would act that way at home!’ Sadder still is the case if the mother lets her ‘serving’ so cumber her that she has no time to be kind and courteous to the children.”