A LITTLE LOVE | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 19, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 37.

A LITTLE LOVE.

ALL over this broad world, in dark, out-of-the-way corners where we should least expect to find it, grows the wonderful plant, love, blossoming into kindly, helpful deeds that fill all life with their fragrance and beauty. The following incident furnishes a beautiful instance:—

A ragged woman was crossing the corner of a public park in London where the children of the poor are accustomed to play, many of them barefoot. A burly policeman stationed on the corner watched the woman suspiciously. Half way across she stopped and picked up something which she hid in her apron. In an instant the policeman was by her side. With gruff voice and threatening manner he demanded:— “What are you carrying off in your apron?” The woman seemed embarrassed and refused to answer. Thereupon the officer of the law, thinking that she had doubtless picked up a pocketbook, which she was trying to make way with, threatened to arrest her unless she told him at once what she had in her apron.

At this the woman reluctantly unfolded her apron and disclosed a handful of broken glass. In stupid wonderment the policeman asked:— “What do you want with that stuff?”

A flush passed over the woman's face, then she answered simply, “If you please, sir, I just thought I'd like to take it out of the way of the children's feet.”

There are many things, sharp and cutting as bits of glass, that get in the way of the wandering feet of God's children. Shall we not follow the example of this humble woman, and do what lies in our power to take away these obstacles and make the path safer and surer for their feet?—Young People's Weekly.