Kindness by Dr. Holland

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 26, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 45.

Kindness.

By Dr. Holland

THE world is full of kindness that never was spoken, and that was 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 on the rocks and on tops of hills where nobody can get them; these do not make anybody warm. You might freeze to death for want of wood in plain sight of these fallen trees, if you had no means of getting the wood home and making a fire of it. Just so in a family; love is what makes the parents and children, the 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 were not any love among them; the house will seem cool even in summer, and if you live there, you will envy the dog when anybody calls him poor fellow.—Dr. Holland.