Do you remember the story of "Lulu and the Wool"? This is a true tale of
the same little girl when she was grown older.
Lulu's home was at the top of a hill, and the road leading up to it was
very steep. One summer evening, as Lulu walked home from town, she
overtook a woman coming from market, and carrying a heavy basket as well
as a bundle which was tied up in a blue checked handkerchief.
The poor woman stopped to rest just as Lulu came up to her. "Let me
carry your bundle," said Lulu. And before the woman could answer she had
picked it up and was trudging along.
"Perhaps your mother would not be pleased to see you carrying my
bundle?" sighed the woman. "Some people think it is vulgar to be seen
carrying parcels."
"It is never vulgar to be kind," answered Lulu. "That is what mother
would say." So they walked on until they came to the cottage, and Lulu
left the grateful woman at her own door, and forgot all about it.
Some years after, Lulu had been away from home, and, missing her train,
she returned laden with parcels one dark, wet night. There was no one
to meet her, no one to help to carry her parcels, and the rain was
pouring down. She hurried outside to look for a cab, but there was not
one to be had, so she began to walk up the hill. After going a very
little way she stopped to rest, the parcels were so heavy; and just then
a man came up and said: "Give me your parcels, miss, they seem too heavy
for you". And Lulu, astonished, handed them to him. He carried them to
the door of her mother's house, and hardly waited to hear the grateful
thanks Lulu would have poured out.
Have you ever heard these words: "Give, and it shall be given unto you".
I think they came true in this little story. Do not you?
Let us all try to build a good deal of the "pure gold" of Kindness into
our "Temple".