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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 20, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 3.

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SPEAK GENTLY.

A YOUNG lady had gone for a walk, but forgot to take her purse with her. Presently she met a little girl with a basket on her arm.
“Please, miss, will you buy something from my basket?” said the girl, showing a variety of book-marks, watch-cases, needle-books, etc.
“I am sorry I can’t buy something to-day,” said the young lady. “I haven’t any money with me. Your things look very pretty.” She stopped a minute and spoke a few kind words to the girl, and then, as she passed, she said again, “I am very sorry I can’t buy anything from you to-day.”
“O miss,” said the little girl, “you’ve done me as much good as if you had! Most persons that I meet say, ‘Get away with you!’ But you have spoken kindly to me, and I feel a heap better.”
This was “considering the poor.” How little it costs to speak kind words, and how much they are worth! If we have nothing else to give, let us at least give love and sympathy.—Selected.