The Home Circle by Eben E. Rexford

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 25, 1889

The Home Circle.

By Eben E. Rexford

SPEAK KIND WORDS.

Oh! speak kind words to one and all, As through the world you go; Let helpful deeds beside your path Like flowers of beauty grow. The fragrance of a loving word Will linger in the heart, As sweetness haunts the flower we prize When summer days depart.

As we go journeying on through life, Perhaps we may not know The good our loving words have done To those who come and go. But God will know; and surely he, In his good time and way, The giver of each kindly word Will royally repay.

So speak kind words to one and all; This life is all too brief To waste in discord and in strife, And fill the heart with grief. With sunshine born of loving words Let's scatter clouds of pain, And thus make bright the sorrowing face, As skies are, after rain. —Eben E. Rexford.