Bertie was a rosy-faced, healthy boy. His mother lived in a little
cottage in the country, and she was too poor to buy dainties for her
child, but the good, plain food he ate was quite enough to make him
hearty and strong.
His usual breakfast was a basin of porridge mixed with milk, and one
bright, sunny morning he was sitting on the doorstep, waiting until it
should be cool enough for him to eat, when he saw a very poor, old man
leaning on the garden gate. Bertie felt sure the old man must be wanting
something to eat, he looked so pale and thin, and being a
generous-hearted boy, he carried down his basin of porridge to the old
man, and asked him to eat it, which he did with great enjoyment, for he
was very hungry. I think you will understand now what being Generous
means. We may do good by giving away things that are of no use to us,
but that is not being generous.
(Blackboard.)
We are Generous when we go without Things, that Others
may have them.