Winsome People

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 9, 1902

THEY are the people who love to diffuse happiness. They are happy themselves because they have made others so. They are thoughtful, considerate, and courteous — ever seeking to provide joy and peace for others, ever striving to avoid and remove anything and everything that wounds unnecessarily. It is an unspeakable delight to be near such people.

“Why are you always thinking of others?” asked a friend of a winsome lady beloved by everybody. “I wouldn’t wear my life out bearing other people’s burdens.”

“Wouldn’t you?” came the questioning answer, with a sweet but reproving smile. “I could not wear it out doing better work than helping the weary and heavy laden.”

“To do God’s will — that’s all That need concern us; not to carry or ask The meaning of it, but to ply our task Whatever may befall.”

It is a great mistake to think any kindly act too insignificant to be noticed by our Father in heaven. Faber says, “Every solitary kind action that is done, the world over, is working briskly in its own sphere to restore the balance between right and wrong. Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three never converted any one unless they were kind also. The continual sense which a kind heart has of its need of kindness keeps it humble. Perhaps an act of kindness never dies, but extends the invisible undulations of its influence over the breadth of centuries.” — Christian Work.