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Show Overcome evil with good in trying to help those in any trouble. A minute ago I read about a wnman who wont two thousand miles in ordor or-dor to get away from her many sympathizing sym-pathizing friends. How is It that the sympathizing friend manages to Ircrease our sorrows! sor-rows! By having n big heart and a llttlo head or by having an artificially big heart? My troubles have been more pain-till pain-till on account of sympathizing friends becauso In placo of lining me up they sat on me. Something might bo said about tho false friend who enjoys sympathizing, to see suffering, but wo will limit this artlclo to tho real friend who falls down In trying to comfort you In your misery. A good many examples nnd illustrations illustra-tions might bo given, but unless I get down to something useful I will disobey dis-obey my headline. You nnd I may not have been very skillful In tho past whllo delivering bad nows or talking to a friend tho first time after tho friend's misfor-tuno. misfor-tuno. How can wo be moro skillful from now on? Tho first tlmo I ever wrote n Christian Chris-tian paragraph in a private letter was ono In a letter to a beautiful girl cousin whom I bad visited. Soon after I heard from that family that my cousin was dead, but that my letter had been a great comfort to her. You cannot make mo bcllovo that 1 wroto that paragraph to my cousin from any every day promptings. It was, In my mind, a product ot somo momentary goodness or a superior power. In trying to comfort othors we should stop and think and appeal to tho greatest and best thought wo know, In order to sympathlzo In a way to comfort. Much or tho discomforting sympathizing sympa-thizing may bo duo to laziness In saying say-ing anything wo happen to think or In using worn-out sentences that mean nothing. It thcro Is anything wo need, original origi-nal preparation for It Is for times when wo talk to friends with breaking break-ing hearts and bleeding memories. |
