Which Is Worth Most? by Lee McCrae

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 23, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 33.

Which Is Worth Most?

By Lee McCrae

(Lee McCrae, in S. S. Times)

NCE upon a time there were two sisters, equal in talents, equal in opportunities.

Said one: "I can not teach. I do not know a thing about it." So she took up her needle and began to embroider a centerpiece for her table.

Said the other sister: "I can not teach. I do not know a thing about it. But I ought to do it." So she laid down her needle and went to a teachers' meeting.

At night-time one had a few inches of beautiful embroidery to put before the eye; the other's hands were empty, but there was an inspiration in her soul that made her say, "I ought and I will."

The next day one sister plied her needle in and out the linen, and at nightfall there were several inches of fine work to show when the other came from a great lecture, her note-book full of splendid instructions which she had labeled, "Keys to Child Nature."

When night came again the pattern showed bravely in the linen, while the sister had heard "the best way to tell a story."

A few weeks after, the centerpiece was spread proudly upon the family table for guests to exclaim over; and a boy was going home from Sunday-school happy because of a story told by his new teacher.

Just a few months, and the linen was in a washerwoman's careless hands. At the same moment a boy was pondering over and over a great truth that had been put into his mind.

When the months grew to be a year, one sister was tucking a tattered centerpiece into a rag-bag, and the other sister had the heart of a boy prepared to lay before the heavenly Father.

O, friends, don't you see? It is just a question of what is most worth our doing.