LOST TIME | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 8, 1881

LOST TIME.

"O, Miss Jennie!" cried a little girl to her Sabbath-school teacher, "I am so sorry, but I have lost a whole morning."

"Lost a whole morning!" repeated Miss Jennie, with a grave look upon her sweet face; "how is that, Clara?"

"Why, mother was so busy, and she left Harry in my room, and really, Miss Jennie, the little fellow was so full of fun that I have done nothing but play with him."

Just then Harry put up his dimpled arms to "love" Clara, as he called it in his baby-talk. He pressed his lips upon her cheek, saying, "Me love 'oo, C'ara."

"You have not lost your morning, Clara," said her teacher. "You have helped your mother, and have bound your little brother to you by your kindness. Such a morning may have been well spent, my dear."

A few days after this Mrs. Palmer was seized with a severe illness. She could not bear the least noise or confusion, and little Harry's noisy play distressed her very much. So Clara took the little fellow to her own room, rocked him to sleep at night, and cared for him almost as well as his mother could, until Mrs. Palmer recovered.

"My dear child," said the physician, as he placed his hand upon the little girl's head, "if your mother had not had so kind and thoughtful a daughter, I fear that she would not have recovered so soon—if at all!"

Thus little Clara had her reward. Never call that hour lost which is spent in making others happy.