Good Counsel | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 14, 1871

Good Counsel.

Sydney Smith cut the following from a newspaper, and preserved it for himself: “When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one to a fellow-creature; it is easily done. A left-off garment to the man who needs it, a kind word to the sorrowful, an encouraging expression to the striving—trifles in themselves light as air—will do it, at least for twenty-four hours. But if you are young, depend upon it, it will tell when you are old; and if you are old, rest assured it will send you gently and happily down the stream of time into eternity. By the most simple, artificial sum, look at the result. If you send one person, only one, happily through the day, that is three hundred and sixty-five in the course of one year. And supposing you only live forty years after you commence that course of medicine, you have made fourteen thousand six hundred beings happy, at all events, for a time.”