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Stretch It a Little

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 15, 1862

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 20, No. 7.

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Stretch It a Little

STRETCH IT A LITTLE.—A little girl and her little brother were on their way to the grocer's the other morning. The roofs of the houses and the grass on the common were white with frost, and the wind was very sharp. They were both poorly dressed, but the little girl had a sort of a coat over her which she seemed to have outgrown.
As they walked briskly along she drew her little companion close up to her, saying, "Come under my coat, Johnny."
"It is not big enough for both," he replied.
"I guess I can stretch it a little," she said, and they were soon as close together and as warm as two birds in the same nest.
How many shivering bodies, and heavy hearts, and weeping eyes there are in the world, just because people do not stretch their comforts a little beyond themselves.