A LESSON IN PATIENCE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 4, 1897

A LESSON IN PATIENCE.

One of the happiest little boys I ever saw, says the Washington Star, is a cripple, and he will never walk. His lower limbs are paralyzed, and the little fellow is wheeled around in a chair made for his especial use. When I first saw him, I thought how awful it must be for a seven-year-old boy not to be able to run and play like other children, and without thinking, I asked:— “Isn't it lovely here? Don't you wish you could run and jump?”

“Yes,” said the little fellow, “I might like it, but I'm happy where I am, and perhaps I'd get hurt. Little boys do.”

Then I felt rebuked, and the little boy, whistling and singing in the chair, playing with whatever is given to him, the minutes of the hours by which the days are told like sunbeams lighting and gladdening life's pathway, has been a lesson to me ever since I first saw him.—Ram's Horn.