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CAN’T RUB IT OUT

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 21, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 29.

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CAN’T RUB IT OUT.

“DON’T write there,” said a father to his son, who was writing on the window.
“Why not?”
“Because you can’t rub it out.”
Did it ever occur to you, child, that you are daily writing that which you can’t rub out? You made a cruel speech to your mother the other day. It wrote itself on her loving heart, and gave her great pain. It is there now, and hurts her every time she thinks of it. You can’t rub it out. You whispered a wicked thought one day in the ear of your playmate. It wrote itself on your mind, and led him to do a wicked act. It is there now; you can’t rub it out.—Anon.