IRREPRESSIBLE ODORS by Sunday School Times

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 16, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 11.

IRREPRESSIBLE ODORS.

By Sunday School Times

THERE are some things that can not be repressed. A boy was passing through a railroad-car with a basket of fruit, calling his wares. A passenger heard him doing so, and paid no attention. But when the boy came opposite his seat, the fragrant odor of the different fruits in the basket was so penetrating and irresistible that the passenger was compelled to turn and look at what mere words had failed to interest him in. It is as impossible for us to conceal the influence of our lives as it would have been for the trainboy to conceal the odor of that fruit. The words we speak count for little; the silent, ever outgoing influence of the lives we live count for much. That is what all people look at; that is what they know us by. And we can not deceive them. We think we can, and we are the only ones deceived. “By their fruits, ye shall know them,” and the odor of the fruit tells the story to the whole world. But with us rests the choice of what fruit seed we shall plant.—Sunday School Times.