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Love's Way

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An Invitation - Try Love's Way - The Greatest Thing in the World - Making Life a Song - The Dream of Brotherhood - Driving Away What We Long For Most - Employers and Employers - Spite Fences - Work and Happiness - Practising Love's Way - Training the Child - How to Lighten Your Words - Survival Value - The Miracle Worker - Our Little Brothers and Sisters - The Thing That Makes a Home - "Stranger, Why Should I NOT Speak to you?" - "I Serve the Strongest" - The Daily Orientation - Scatter Your Flowers As You Go - Love Letters From God - The Harmony Bath - Heroism at Home - What the Bee Teaches Us - Love's Way and Christmas Giving - Contents -

which otherwise would hold them down and embitter their lives.

A poor crippled boy classifies his friends by their tact, or their lack of it, in referring to his misfortunes. He says he often meets people who don't mean to be unkind, but who are constantly reminding him of his defect. They will ask him if he has always been that way; or if there is really no help for it; if it doesn't make him very unhappy, and other equally foolish questions. On the other hand, those who have enough imagination, as well as love, to put themselves in his place, never treat him as though he is inferior physically, or make him feel that he is placed at a disadvantage in life. They never refer to his handicap any more than if it did not exist, and he loves them all the more for their tenderness. These he ranks as his best friends.

Real friends never remind us of personal blemishes or deficiencies. Nor do they upbraid us for our sins or shortcomings. When Elizabeth Fry was doing her marvelous work among the prisoners in London, she was asked by a visitor to the prison what crime a certain girl prisoner had committed. "I never asked her,"

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