The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-10-26

WQero IL is que, OF IdH IOT ldCA VI 1
however small or seemingly insight
icant the service may be. is tn
most unkindly act of ALL No on
should fail to make known his o
her appreciation of any pleasure O
help received. This knowledge o
an agreeable acceptance of another
efforts is necessary often for it
needed continuation or REPETITION
fe'se in time it may cease for lack
Eof incentive.
Pleasure shared is pleasure multi
piled. Whatever pleasure or happi
ness you may be able to bring to
another will be greatly increased ii
you will only express it in such a
way as to show is mutual charac-
! ter. 1t always gives us an added
feeling of enjoyment to know that
whatever time or thought is expend-
ed on us b, our friends is notGone
at the sacrifice of their own pleasure
or enjoyment. We love to feel that
they have rec eived in some meaSu e
at least, of tue pleasure and help IN
the giving that was in their hearts
to bring to us. To share our pleas
ures is but to increase them, not
only for ourselves but for those to
whom we would carry it.
One great trouble with many of
us-one great hinderance TO much
helpfulness we might carry to many
who Re, lily stand in need of US, when
there could be no loss of value on
our part in any manner or form, is
the looming up Of SELF in the
way-the making of our own pleas
ures the chief importance and Civ
ing them first pace ON all occasions
and at all times, until it becomes
set habit and part of our
nature. We act from a selfish de-
sire to please ourselves rather than
to please some one else We allow
a sense of anticipated pleasure to
prompt the act ins,ead of the need
of the act prompting the thought
and Offering the pleasure for the
doing. The deed is done for the
sake of the pleasure we derive from
it rather than for the higher and
more commendable purpose OF Civ
ing some one else pleasure and be-
ing helpful. We want to do good;
we want to do lots of good, but we
are very choice aud discriminating
in the selection of the subjects !
upon whom to expend our labor
Of lover and the subject is too often
dictated by our own selfish pleasures
Or interest. We reserve as our.
right and privilege to select the kind
IF service most coDgenlal to our
tastes and Offering us the greater
enjoyment and not the real need of
another as the incentive of our action
1t is easy for us to deceive our
selves into b slieving we are entirely
honest in extending help and kind
less to others. Many a good deed
S done in the name Of kindness
which deed was prompted by the
)urest selfishness. Many a kind
let is passed off as a beautiful
christian act when at the same time
many an old sinner is doing the
,ery same thing and from the same
motive.
The world is ever in need of help
ul kindness-kind thoughts, kind
words, kind deeds, they all have
heir place in the social life and
christian fellowship, and in promot
ne our happiness he,e on earth.
rhese three expressions, thought
and action make up the
rune of human life. They form
10Th life and its express. To take
rom life these vital parts of exis-
ence man would become a noDenity.
Motive gives character to the act.
t is the motive which prompts the
lct more than the act itself which
more often carries with it the great
II helpfulness. Any deed perform
d as an act Of kindness in what
Ver way it may be expressed, or
whatever meaning it is intended to ;
convey, as spiritual or moral force,
an be worth no more than what
hey represent.
Every thought, word and act pos
esses a quality which determines
he part each is to play in human
lie, for veal or woe, for for good or
vii, for life or death. AS we find
he one and escape the o,her we :
Jain joy, peace and happiness here
N earth without which life would
)e one continued existence of men-
al tortue and sorrow.
We cannot fully estimate the
worth of personal kindness as an
influence in winning people from
lfe of bitter and hardened resent
nenf adainst 11nfriendlu circnm