Don't Write There

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 8, 1864

Don't Write There

Don't Write There.— "Don't write there," said one to a lad who was writing with a diamond pin on a pane of glass in the window of a hotel. "Why not?" was the reply. "Because you can't rub it out." There are other things which men should not do, because they cannot rub them out. A heart is aching for sympathy, and a cold, perhaps a heartless word, is spoken. The impression may be more durable than the diamond upon the glass. The inscription on the glass may be destroyed by the fracture of the glass, but the impression on the heart may last forever. On many a mind and many a heart there are sad inscriptions, deeply engraved, which no effort can erase. We should be careful what we write on the minds of others.