Won by Kindness by W. E. Videto

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 5, 1914

Won by Kindness

By W. E. Videto

As a people, we have been slow to learn that many who grow bitter under the sting of cutting arguments may be won to the truth by kindness. I was forcibly reminded of this some time ago on meeting a certain minister. He had been so bitter that several years before, when we were looking for a place to hold meetings, we thought it best not even to ask for a certain church when we learned that he controlled it.

The last time we met him, he seemed entirely changed; he was friendly, and even cordial, in his greeting. We learned that one of his sons had been helped by an Adventist neighbor in a time of serious trouble. Another son had gone to one of our sanitariums and left the institution practically a well man, enthusiastic over our health principles, and grateful for the kindness shown him. The father's heart could resist all argument, but it yielded to the kindness shown his sons. Are there not many seemingly hard hearts around us that can be touched by some little act of kindness shown to themselves or to their loved ones? W. E. Videto.