An Act of Kindness by American Messenger

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, Cal. · Feb 24, 1909

An Act of Kindness.

By American Messenger

It was blue Monday at the manse when a book-agent rang the bell. He had set out with high hopes of earning some money for a college course, but had lost money instead, and homesick, heartsore, disheartened, he came that rainy day to the house where the minister was wearied with his ministry, and the mistress of the manse was suffering with a nervous headache. They could not spare the money for his book, but they did keep him by them for three days, and sent him out with a springy step and a refreshed spirit.

The sequel came some years later when, at a meeting of the Synod, the minister introduced to his wife one who had thrilled the audience with his eloquent presentation of the truth, and who told her that the treatment he had received at the manse made him desire to be what seemed to him the noblest thing he had ever known, a Christian pastor.