Courtesy

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 24, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 20.

A MIGHTY, helpful element in a successful business is COURTESY. One may be kind and not courteous. One may be courteous — polite — but not kind. The first may be hidden by a gruff, coarse manner; the second may be mere formal politeness, a timid softness of surface. Let the courtesy be based in true kindness.

The just and courteous business man will not neglect the greatest Friend he has. He will not forget to be courteous to God. He will thank Him in the morning, as he wakes to consciousness, for life and the promise of a new day; and he will thank Him at night, ere he loses himself in unconsciousness again, for the blessings of the day that is over. More than this: If he truly recognizes a reason for thanking God, he will see in that also an imperative reason for asking God's help, God's forgiveness, God's acceptance through Jesus Christ.