Encouraging the Good in Others

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 30, 1881

Encouraging the Good in Others

creetur, who goes around a good deal like a dog without any owner. He knows folks despise him. But Jim's right handy with tools, an' when I take my saw to him to have it filed, an' tell him he does that job better'n any other man I know, I think it helps him to have a little more respect for himself, I do. You see it's dreadful easy to look at faults—at faults in children, an' faults in hired folks, an' faults in prayer-meetin's. But as I look at it we'd do a great deal better to think more about the good things in 'em.—Examiner and Chronicle.