Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1905 — SYMPATHY. [ARTICLE]

SYMPATHY.

Sympathy is food to a starving heart. Sympathy is two hearts pulling at one load. Sympathy is the staff on which trouble leans. Sympathy is the cream that rises on the milk of human kindness. Sympathy in sorrow’s hour is like the gentle rain to drooping flowers. Sympathy is the least the rich may give, the most the poor can offer. Sympathy is the blossom grown from the costly bulb called personal suffering. Sympathy is a well toned instrument that readily responds to notes of weal or woe. Sympathy is the most powerful human magnet for attracting and holding friendship. Sympathy is perfect forgetfulness of oneself in true feeling for the unhappiness of others. Sympathy is love’s healing balm spread by pity’s tender hand on sorrow’s heart wound.