GLADNESS IN THE POST OFFICE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 89, 1 May 1937, Page 12

GLADNESS IN THE POST OFFICE

An excellent story is told of the l^e Dr. F. B. Meyer, It refers to a wayside towij in America that, when the time of day arrived for the post to arrive, the small post office was erowded out with negroes waitin^ for ters. As the Postinaster read out the naines, the negroes would prick up their e&rs with excitement and anticipation. Dr. Meyer noticed two old darkies who looked pavticularly sad, and ' he asked the Postmasfer if they ever got any letters.- "No, sir„" was the aflswer "You see, sir,#they don't under stand that there ' must be some- . oue at tfie other end to sCnd a letter before they can reeeive u Dr. Meyer was touclied by tipa, and when he retnrned toi England he asked a number of people to write to fliese two p6or old negroes, then he himself wrote to the postmaster for flewe about the negroes. "My dear sir," he replied, "I never had siich a scene in my post | office before-^I just couldn't hear myself speak because of the joy those old people got out of the fact that there was someane at ' the other end who cared to write to them. They shouted ahd jiimped for joy." Surely you and I, dear reader, can see through this — the One at the qther end, Who- has not l'orgotten nS— Who Knowsa Who Loves, Who Cares, ;