Silent Influence

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 1, 1872

We are touching our fellow-beings on all sides. They are affected for good or for evil by what we are, by what we say and do, even by what we think and feel. May flowers in the parlor breathe their fragrance through the atmosphere. We are each of us silently saturating the atmosphere about us with the subtle aroma of our character. In the family circle, besides and beyond all teaching, the daily life of each parent and child mysteriously modifies the life of every person of his household. The same process on a wider scale is going on through the community. No man liveth to himself. Others are built up and strengthened by our unconscious deeds; and others may be wrenched out of their places and thrown by our unconscious influence.