Just a Word Helps by Young Evangelist

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Dec 15, 1910

Just a Word Helps

By Young Evangelist

A YOUNG girl was passing an aged aunt one day, when she suddenly stopped, laid her hand gently on the white head, and said: “How pretty your hair is, Aunt Mary!”

The simple words brought a quick flush of pleasure to the wrinkled face, and there was a joyous quiver in the brief acknowledgment of the spontaneous little courtesy.

A young man once said to his mother: “You ought to have seen Aunt Esther to-day, when I remarked, ‘What a pretty dress you have on, and how nice you look in it!’ She almost cried, she was so pleased. I hadn’t thought before that such a little thing would please her so.”

“I never expect to eat any cookies as good as those you used to make, mother,” said a bearded man one day; and he was shocked when he saw her evident delight in his words; for he remembered that he had not thought to speak before for years of any of the thousand comforts and pleasures with which her skill and love had filled his boyhood.—Young Evangelist.