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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 17, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 11.

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SPEAK GENTLY.

A young lady had gone out for a walk, but forgotten to take her purse with her. Presently she met a little girl with a basket on her arm, a wee, pale, care-worn creature.
"Please, miss, will you buy something from my basket?" said the girl, showing a variety of book-marks, match-cases, needles, books, etc.
"I am sorry I can't buy anything to-day," said the young lady; I haven't any money with me. Your things look very pretty." She stopped a moment and spoke a few kind words to the little girl, and then, as she passed, she said again, "I am very sorry I can't buy anything from you to-day."
"Oh, miss," said the little girl, "you've done me just as much good as if you had. Most persons that I meet say, 'Get away with you!' but you have spoken kindly to me, and I feel a heap better."
That was considering the poor. How little it costs to speak kind words, and how much they are worth. If we have nothing else to give, let us at least give love and sympathy.—Star and Crown.