LEND A HAND | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 12, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 37.

LEND A HAND.

A young girl on a railroad train gave a bunch of roses to a little cripple. The child held them to her lips, and pressed them to her heart, and fell asleep. The train reached its destination. The father came in from the smoking-car. At the sight of his little one lying peacefully with her head against the stranger, and the roses in her hand, he said in a voice full of feeling:—

"I'm not a prayin' man, but the Lord's blessin' rest on you for your kindness to my bairn!"

The child roused as she was taken in her father's arms, and said:—

"I've been in heaven, pa; I've got some roses."

There was a mist in other eyes than the father's, and more than one heard a divine voice, saying, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me."—Selected.