DON'T SNUB HIM | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 17, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 41.

DON'T SNUB HIM.

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

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 because his home is plain and unpretending. Abraham Lincoln’s early home was a log cabin.

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 of dullness in his lessons. Hogarth, the celebrated painter and engraver, was a stupid boy at his books.

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

Don’t snub a boy for any reason—not only because he may some day outstrip you in the race of life, but because it is neither kind nor right.—Good Housekeeping.