SYMPATHY.
TT Is wonderful how men change to a changed heart. We ourselves, being ennobled, see noble things, and loving, find out love. Little touches of goodness, of love, of courage in men, which formerly, looking for perfection, we passed over, now attract us like flowers on a dusty highway. We take them as keys to the character, and door after door flies open to us. The man reveals the treasures of his heart. We find aspiration, penitence, tenderness, in those we thought grovelling, hard and selfish. We trust men, we throw ourselves upon the good in them, and they become better now that they are not suspected of being evil .... Driven by our new principle to seek for good and not evil, and to find it in all, we take notice of ordinary men whom we have passed over, and it is with an exquisite surprise that we become conscious of the vast amount of daily sacrifice done by common men and women, by those whom we oall “dull," by those who ha to fight a hard battle like the poor.—-Stopford Brooke.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20254, 24 July 1937, Page 15 (Supplement)
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183SYMPATHY. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20254, 24 July 1937, Page 15 (Supplement)
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