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FROZEN KINDNESS

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 27, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 13.

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FROZEN KINDNESS.

This world is full of kindness that never was spoken, and that is not much better than no kindness at all. The fuel in the stove makes the room warm; but there are great piles of fallen trees lying among rocks and on top of the hills where nobody can get at them, which do not make anybody warm. You might freeze to death for want of wood in plain sight of all these fallen trees, if you had no means of getting the wood home and making a fire with it. Just so in a family; love is what makes parents and children, and brothers and sisters happy; but if they take care never to say a word about it,—if they keep it a profound secret as if it were a crime, they will not be much happier than if there was no love, among them; the house will seem cold even in the summer, and if you live there, you envy the poor dog when everybody calls him “poor fellow.”—Selected.