"You Could Have Said 'O!'"
A LITTLE boy showed his hurt finger to his father. "Well, I can not help it," said the busy man. "Yes, you could; you could have said 'O!'" replied the grieved boy. "Sympathy is in itself a help," says one writer, "and sympathy prompts to an expression of itself in help. If in our hearts we feel with another, we want to share his sorrows, and enter into his joys. And if it be known by another,—as it will be,—that we have real sympathy with him, he will be helped and cheered thereby, and he will know he can call upon us for any needed expression of our sympathy in practical help. Sympathy is the outcome of a loving heart. It is the expression of love for Christ, and of love for those who are dear to Him. There are calls for sympathy in every sphere in which we are placed in the providence of God." Let us bear "one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ." Let us "rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep."— The Little Christian.