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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 9, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 2.

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HELEN A STEINHAUER

By Helen A Steinhauer

Don’t

HELEN A STEINHAUER

Don’t what?
Don’t make old people feel as if they were “back numbers,” and therefore not wanted.
Don’t shut them out of your lives and your homes as if they were intruding. Remember that if they have kept their hearts green, they still take the liveliest interest in the young people whom they have been permitted to see grow up into useful manhood and womanhood.
Don’t forget how their pathways have narrowed, and their lives been shadowed by the dropping of their contemporaries out of the race, leaving them almost alone, and — O! so lonely.
Don’t forget that if time lasts, you, too, will grow old and crave just what you are withholding from them. Therefore now do as you then would fain be done by, and see if you as well as they are not happier for so doing.
Believe me, this course of action pays!
Battle Creek, Mich.