Neighborly Kindness by Mrs. M. J. Bremner

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 12, 1902

Neighborly Kindness

By Mrs. M. J. Bremner

MRS. M. J. BREMNER

“If I can get the time” is an expression frequently heard. Many of us are too busy to be friendly or hospitable, too busy to visit the sick or to sympathize with the unfortunate. In the hurry and rush of living, we are losing many of the finer traits that should find expression among us as a people. If we each felt a friendly interest in our fellow men, the world would not be starving for kindness, as it is to-day. A little more consideration and practical effort to lighten a weary one’s load might be the surest way to prosperity. It would cut off many needless wants, and would lead us to give less attention to self. The pity of it is we are kept so busy catering to ourselves that we have no time to look after the comfort and convenience of our neighbor.

We should be on the alert for kind, helpful acts. This love for all men and women, this kindness, this self-sacrificing devotion emanating from a kind, compassionate heart, wins the world. It was the good, motherly heart of Queen Victoria that made her the world’s peerless queen. It was the love for men and women, and a desire to lift them above destructive indulgences, that made Lucy Hayes the most conspicuous and best-beloved of all the ladies who have resided at the White House.