Compassion

Here’s EGW’s view of it: “The inhumanity of man toward man is our greatest sin”…

“Your son is here,” the nurse said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times before the man’s eyes opened. He was heavily sedated and only partially conscious after a massive heart attack…

In 1921, Lewis Lawes became the warden at Sing Sing Prison. No prison was tougher than Sing Sing during that time. But when Warden Lawes retired some 20 years later, that prison had become a humanitarian institution…

Ira Gillett, missionary in Portuguese East Africa, tells the story of a group of natives who made a long journey and walked past a government hospital to come to the mission hospital for treatment…

May our prayer, O Christ, awaken all thy human reminiscences, that we may feel in our hearts the sympathizing Jesus…

Sara Tucholsky, a softball player for Western Oregon University, hit the first home run of her life in a game against Central Washington. But she nearly didn’t get credit for it. As she rounded first base in excitement, she missed it!…

Olive Malvery has told us how that once, when she was living the life of the women in the East-end, she had worked and walked for a whole day without being able to earn enough money to get a bed; the very…

The nurse escorted a tired, anxious young man to the bedside of an elderly man. “Your son is here,” she whispered to the patient. She had to repeat the words several times before the patient’s eyes opened…

A few years ago at the Seattle Special Olympics, nine contestants, all physically or mentally disabled, assembled at the starting line for the 100-yard dash…

Drive-By he red light kept our car at the intersection where the two girls stood. I glanced over at the cardboard sign that one held. The sign’s message, in thick black marker, was the typical one— something about being homeless?…

A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in . They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night’s dinner…

Compassion is the most powerful antidote for hatred and bitterness that the human heart can find. It’s the one way to restore love to a broken relationship…

Wait For The Brick A successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something…

Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City was one of America’s most colorful public figures…

I heard a story once about a farmer who had some puppies for sale. He made a sign advertising the pups and nailed it to a post on the edge of his yard…

An ethics professor at Princeton Seminary asked for volunteers for an extra assignment. At two o’clock, fifteen students gathered at Speer Library where the professor divided the group of fifteen into three groups of five each…

If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.

A successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something…

A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago. They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night’s dinner…

He stood only five-feet-four inches tall, and always wore a carnation in his lapel. He was the Mayor of New York City during the Great Depression and during the worst days of World War II…

Six young men were slated to compete against one another in Seattle, Washington. The event was the hundred-yard dash. The men lined up, waited for the starting gun, and took off in a sprint…

Helen Keller early in her life, lost the ability to see, hear or speak. She was less than two years old when she was stricken with the disease that left her in this disabled condition…

I was once blind for six weeks. At the time it seemed like an eternity. Strange though it may seem, during that time, I “saw” the people in my life more clearly than ever…

Shortly after World War II came to a close, Europe began picking up the pieces. Much of the Old Country had been ravaged by war and was in ruins…

“What a comfort,” wrote a soldier from the hospital at Scutari with reference to Florence Nightingale, “it was to see her even pass…

An old man walked up a shore littered with thousands of starfish, beached and dying after a storm. A young man was picking them up and flinging them back into the ocean. “Why do you bother?” the old man scoffed…

Ken Ritz tells about an experience he had years ago: I was about 27-years-old and still in the Navy. I was driving across the country and stopped at a truck stop for dinner. Business was slow…

Emily Tubman for newly arrived blacks from America. (In 1943, the Republic of Liberia elected its eighteenth president, William Vaccanarat Shadrach Tubman, the grandson of two of Emily Tubman’s former slaves.)…

A few years ago at the Seattle Special Olympics, nine contestants, all physically or mentally disabled, assembled at the starting line for the 100-yard dash…

One late, rainy night a pastor was driving across the country on a lonely road. Suddenly, out in the middle of his headlights he saw a man running back and forth across the highway…

Each year we should see more and more of ourselves in the lives of others; we should identify ourselves more closely with them…

Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child…

Charles Spurgeon once found a boy, ragged and hungry, on the streets. Taking him home with him, the pastor fed and clothed the boy. Then he knelt down and prayed for the lad…

IN IOWA there was a storm that had flooded out a major city. People were gathering their goods to save what they could. One of the policemen saw a sight that touched his heart…

A number of years ago on the prairies of Kansas, a little boy was pedaling his bike, delivering newspapers…

In August 1997 Hans Hoerler, 40, fell from a tree on his three hundred and forty acre farm in Rhea’s Mill, Arkansas, and was paralyzed from the neck down. His wife and ten-year-old son ran to neighbor Ted Grigson for help…

President Abraham Lincoln often visited hospitals to talk with wounded soldiers during the Civil War. Once, doctors pointed out a young soldier who was near death and Lincoln went over to his bedside…

Near the entrance in the corridor of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the city of Baltimore stands a gigantic figure of the Christ in marble. There is a look of tender sym- pathy even in the face of stone…

The woman was old, and ragged and gray, And bent with the chill of a winter’s day; The street was wet with recent snow, And the woman’s feet were aged and slow, She stood at the crossing, and waited long, Alone, uncared…

A store owner was tacking a sign above his door that read “Puppies For Sale.” Signs like that have a way of attracting small children, and sure enough, a little boy appeared under the store owner’s sign…

During World War II, an American warship in the Pacific was transporting some wounded Japanese prisoners. The medical officer in charge took such excellent care of the prisoners that his fellow-—officers protested…

BISHOP FRANCIS J. McCONNELL once told me a story of one of his vivid experiences on Cape Cod when he was a student preacher. He was walking one stormy night with an old sea captain along the shore…

Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child…

In 1987, real estate agent Oral Lee Brown walked into a class of first-graders in a blighted neighborhood and made a promise—stay in school and I’ll see you through to college…

I am sorry for the man who can’t feel the whip when it is laid on the other man’s back.

When Heine stood before the great statue Venus de Milo he exclaimed: “But oh! what was it worth? For she has no arms, the goddess, no hands to reach out and help poor beaten souls like me!”

John was walking on the beach. The evening tide was making its way towards the shore. He saw thousands of starfish were being washed in with the tide…

Katie Fisher, 17, entered the Madison County Ohio Junior Livestock Sale hoping the lamb she had for sale would get a good price. For months Katie had been battling cancer…