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THE IMPORTANT THING

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 27, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 42.

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THE IMPORTANT THING.

A YOUNG woman whose life was full of lofty ambitions found herself occupied day after day with disagreeable household tasks.
As the future seemed to shut down over her hopelessly around these homely duties, the girl grew complaining and bitter.
One day her father, who was the village doctor, said to her: “Do you see those vials? They are cheap, worthless things in themselves, but in one I put a deadly poison, in another a sweet perfume, in another a healing medicine. Nobody cares for the vials themselves, but what they carry.
“So with our duties, insignificant and worthless in themselves, but the patience, or anger, or high thinking, or bitterness which we put into them, that is the important thing, the immortal thing.”—Silver Cross.