Give Me Strength To Help Him

We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities
of the weak, and not
to please ourselves.

ROMANS 15, verse 1.


The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned,
that I should know how to speak a word in season
to him that is weary.

If there be some weaker one,
Give me strength to help him on;
If a blinder soul there be,
Let me guide him nearer Thee.

J. G. WHITTIER.

Ask Him to increase your powers of sympathy:
to give you more quickness and depth of sympathy,
in little things as well as great. Opportunities of
doing a kindness are often lost from mere want of thought.
Half a dozen lines of kindness may bring sunshine
into the whole day of some sick person.
Think of the pleasure you might give to some one who
is much shut up, and who has fewer pleasures
than you have, by sharing with her some
little comfort or enjoyment that you have learnt to
look upon as a necessary of life,--the pleasant drive,
the new book, flowers from the country, etc.
Try to put yourself in another's place. Ask "What should I
like myself, if I were hard-worked, or sick, or lonely?"
Cultivate the habit of sympathy.

G. H. WILKINSON.