1 Thessalonians 5:14 Now we exhort you, brothers, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men. In the town of Leeds I was waiting one wet wintry night outside the railway station, when a ragged, dirty boy, selling papers, came up to me and said: "Buy an evening paper, sir. Please do. Only seven left, and they's all my profit." The boy's eagerness to sell arrested my attention, and on looking down I saw a bright, intelligent face with a look of honesty in it. So I questioned him, and found his parents were, he supposed, "drinking at a public house in Briggate." "Had he no cap to wear that rainy night?" "Yes," but he had lent it to his sister, who was waiting for him in an old doorway across the road till he "sold out." The cap wasn't on her head because she had "no boots and stockings, so I told her to put her feet inside my cap to keep 'em warm and prevent her ketchin' cold." Surely this was "a self-sacrificing chivalry worthy of the knights of old, for a boy who thus cared for his sister exhibited the true spirit of bravery." (Told in Dr. Bernardo's "Night and Day. ") Parallel Verses KJV: Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men. |
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