音频下载A Kind Word 友善的话语A successful businessman,addressing the commercial club of his city,told a stor......
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音频下载A Kind Word 友善的话语
A successful businessman,
addressing the commercial club of his city,
told a story of an orphan named Jim,
who was the laughing stock of the whole town.
Jim was 12,
and he never remembered having a kind word spoken to him in his whole life.
One day as Jim walked down the street,
he saw a bundle slip from the overloaded arms of a little lady just in front of him.
As she stooped to pick it up,
the others rolled down.
Jim sprang to her assistance,
gathering up the bundles and replacing them in her arms.
“Thank you, dear;
you are a nice little boy,”
she said kindly,
and went on her way after giving him a bright smile.
Jim was amazed;
a queer choky feeling passed over him.
These were the first kind words
he had ever heard in his whole twelve years of existence.
He stood and stared after her.
He knew that she was the busy little dressmaker
who lived in a small cottage on the outskirts of town.
He watched her until she was out of sight,
then he made straight for the woods and a stream that wound around the town.
He sat down on the bank of the stream and did some thinking.
“Thank you, dear; you are a nice little boy,”
he pondered.
Finally the boy pulled from his pockets
a piece of broken mirror and looked at himself.
He saw nothing but grime and dirt.
He went down to the water’s edge and scrubbed it off carefully,
almost painfully.
Then he looked again.
He scarcely recognized himself.
He stood erect and looked up instead of down for the first time since he could remember.
He distinctly liked the sensation.
A feeling of self-respect awoke within his being.
Ambition sprang full-grown into life.
At that moment the course of his life was changed;
a determination to be worthy of the kind words spoken to him by the little dress maker,
and to pass them on, took possession of his soul.
After telling this story of Jim,
the speaker paused;
and then he electrified the audience by saying,
“Gentlemen, I was that boy.
That gentle woman implanted in my life the first seed of kindness.
As a tribute to her memory I have told you this story.”
Oh, if all of us would learn the lesson:
“Say kind words to others.”
What transforming power it has!
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