GOOD IN ALL MEN
Our fellow man is as valuable as we. He may be down, but he has it in him to stand. A writer says of the windfalls of apples:
We remember that in the windfalls a
sweetness remains. That fruit, fallen untimely,
or cast earthward by the storm, yet
has not lost its flavor; often it is still sweet
and pleasant to the taste. And, therefore,
mindful of this, let us not think that the
human windfalls have lost all their sweetness.
Let us remember some good is left in
all, and seek to gather them up. (Text.)
(1269)
Good, Making—See Reformation.
GOOD, NOURISHING THE
Mr. Kaye Robinson, the brilliant English naturalist, describes a competition witnessed by him in the fields:
Owing to a peculiarity of weather the
poppies had managed to get a start of an
inch or so in the matter of height over the
wheat and barley, and the obnoxious flowers
were just beginning to burst into bloom
that would have converted the stunted grain
into lakes of scarlet, when down came the
rain; in a single day and night the wheat
shot up above the poppies, and for the rest
of the season the poisonous things were
overwhelmed in a wavy sea of prosperous
green and yellow gold.
The best way to improve the world
is not to fight against the evil directly,
but to so nourish and cultivate the good
that evil will be crowded out. (Text.)
(1270)
Good Old Times—See Science Shattering Superstition.
GOOD OUT OF EVIL
Again and again is it demonstrated how God makes the wrath of man to praise him.
When he was seeking to do evil only, in
the pursuit of his cruel and tyrannical
policy, Sultan Abdul Hamid was all the time
unconsciously promoting some of the great
designs of divine Providence. He did good
in ways altogether unintended, never for a
moment foreseeing how his own policy in the
end would recoil upon himself. For he
banished hundreds of the most enlightened
and patriotic of his subjects to various
provinces, little thinking how their influence
would work against himself. The
head of the revolutionary party, Ahmed
Riza, for twenty years quietly and steadily
during his exile worked in the cause of
liberty. And this heroic man toiled on in
face of the depressing obstacles furnished
by what seemed to be an utterly unresponsive
country. When he was living in
dire poverty in France he refused to accept
£2,000 a month from the Sultan, and at one
crisis he just as firmly and indignantly rejected
an offered bribe of a million pounds
simply to shut his mouth. (Text.)
(1271)
GOOD OUTWEIGHING THE BAD
It was a quiet little town, nestling snugly
at the foot of a big hill. Many of the
streets were lined with shade-trees. On one
of the principal thoroughfares there stood a
magnificent tree. Its shade and beauty
evoked the admiration of the passers-by. It
stood squarely on the middle of the sidewalk,
and might be regarded as an obstruction.
There were some who would have liked to
see that tree taken down, because it was
not where it should be, but the great majority
decided to let it remain because of its
beauty, its shade and its symmetry. So is it
with individuals. Sometimes a man is very
irregular at his business or he is careless in
some of his habits, and the question comes
up, what shall be done with that man. His
good qualities are considered and they discover
that they far outweigh his bad qualities,
and thus he is allowed to remain.
(1272)
Good Results from Bad Environment—See Missionary Adaptation.
GOOD SAMARITAN IN PARAPHRASE
The following is a Hindu version of the parable of the Good Samaritan given by a schoolgirl in the mission at Sukkur:
There was once a rich merchant going
home through a forest. He was suddenly
attacked by robbers, who beat him and
robbed him of all his money, leaving him
half dead. A Brahman passed by, and seeing
the man, said to himself, "He is only a
sweeper," and went away. A Mohammedan
also came that way, but he said, "This man is
no relation or friend of mine; why should
I have any concern for him?" and so he
went away. At last a Christian came, riding
