KINDNESS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 5, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 39.

“Over a winding, wayside wall, Ragged and rough and gray, There crept a tender, clinging vine, Tireless, day by day. At last its mantle of softest tint Covered each jagged seam; The struggling wall, half broken down, Became, with that leafy, tinted crown, Fair as an artist’s dream.

“O for the kindness that clings and twines Over life’s broken wall, That blossoms above the scars of pain, Striving to hold them all! O for the helpful, ministering hands, Beneficent, willing feet, That spread rich mantles of tender thought O’er life’s rough places, till time has wrought Its healing—divine, complete!”