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Kindness Is Catching

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 14, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 2.

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Kindness Is Catching

By Humane Press Bureau

On the playground fence a teacher put a cake for the birds, telling her pupils of their usefulness and intelligence, and the wrong of injuring them. Next day her most unruly boy ate only half his lunch, and put the other half on the fence. Kindness is contagious, and example is powerful. That fence is now the favorite perch of many birds, even when the yard is filled with noisy boys, and the unruly boy has changed for the better. Surely those boys will all be nobler men and better citizens for the tuition of such a teacher.
While every child should be intellectually educated, it is certain that education of the heart is even more essential to the welfare of society and to individual happiness, and children are entitled to both.
A noted American has said, “The spirit of cruelty is the deadliest enemy to a high civilization.” And Humboldt said, “Cruelty to animals is a characteristic vice of a vulgar people.” As all crime is cruel, to abolish cruelty is to abolish crime.—Humane Press Bureau.