I’LL RUN FOR JIMMY

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 27, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 35.

“I’LL RUN FOR JIMMY.”

JIMMY was a little lame fellow about twelve years of age, pale and sickly-looking, supported by two crutches. He was looking wistfully at some of his playmates playing ball, and was eager to join in the game. The other boys, very good-naturedly, tried to coax him to stand on one side, and let some one else take his place. Still Jimmy urged that he might be allowed to join the game.

“Why, Jimmy,” said one at last, “You can’t run you know.”

“O hush,” said another—the tallest in the party. “Never mind; I’ll run for him,” and he took his place by Jimmy’s side, prepared to act. “If you were lame like he is,” he said in a whisper aside to the other boys, “you wouldn’t like to be told of it all the time.”

He was a true gentleman, for you know that thoughtfulness for the feelings of others is the mark of the gentleman wherever you find him. Manners or fine clothes pale into insignificance unless there is the proper spirit behind them.—Selected.