p. 13 | Loyalty to Home by The Christian Herald

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 28, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 47.

Loyalty to Home

By The Christian Herald

A young girl attending a school some distance from her home was one day in her room surrounded by companions who were busy with embroidery and bits of fancy work. Some one asked for a needle, and the young hostess brought a needle-case. As she offered it, the one who had made the request glanced at it with a slight laugh and a perceptible lifting of eyebrows. It was an inartistic, old-fashioned, homely little needle-case; but its owner drew it back almost as if the look had been a blow, and smoothed it over with caressing fingers as she said, "My mother made it."

Love, loyalty, and a touch of defiance were in the words. What did these gay girls know of the plain little home and the dear, old-fashioned mother whose toil-worn fingers had sewed the bits of ribbon together and shaped them into a gift for her girl? The daughter saw it all as in a vision. These stylish young friends were good enough, but the old home and those it held were her dearest treasures on earth, and no sneer should touch them or their ways in her presence. Word and action showed the fiber of the girl. Had she been weaker or less loving, she would have been ashamed of her little possession and the home conditions it represented; and if she did not disown or apologize for it, she would at least have kept it carefully out of sight thereafter.—The Christian Herald.