THE STRONGEST BOND

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 19, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 29.

THE STRONGEST BOND.

SELF-SEEKING cuts men apart like a knife. Common interest in another's need draws them together as blood kin. Watch a crowded thoroughfare, filled with men and women who for the time being are jostling each other in their self-centered purpose to accomplish their own ends; let a single human being in the crowd fall by the way or show need of assistance, and in a moment a dozen people, strangers to each other, will have drawn close together in their common effort to meet a fellow-being's need. In that turning away from thought of self to effort for another the helpers realize their common bond and let all that is best in them come to the front; and they take it for granted that those with whom they are thus working are worthy of their confidence and esteem. The image of God, who is love, flashes out for a moment from those who are made in God's image. Why not let that image shine through us all the time? Living for others will clear the way.—Anon.