DON'T SNUB HIM by Anon

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 17, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 11.

DON'T SNUB HIM.

By Anon

Don’t snub a boy because of physical disability. Milton was blind, and was also deaf.

Don’t snub a boy because he chooses a humble trade. The author of “Pilgrim’s Progress” was a tinker.

Don’t snub a boy because he stutters. Demosthenes, the greatest orator of Greece, overcame a harsh and stammering voice.

Don’t snub a boy because of the ignorance of his parents. Shakespeare, the world’s poet, was the son of a man who was unable to write his own name.

Don’t snub a boy who seems dull or stupid. Hogarth, the celebrated painter and engraver, was slow at learning, and did not develop as soon as most boys.

Don’t snub a boy because he wears shabby clothes. When Edison, the great inventor, first entered Boston, he wore a pair of yellow linen breeches in the depth of winter.

Don’t snub any one,—not alone because they may far outstrip you in the race of life, but because it is neither kind, nor right, nor Christian.—Anon