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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 -

husband, the good father in the meanest hobo, in the most degenerate beggar that crawls in his rags. Love sees only the ideal man or woman, the being made in his Creator's image, which persists in every one of us no matter how low we may have fallen.

The loving mother does not see the criminal in her son. No matter what his faults or blemishes, she looks beyond them to the divine ideal. She sees an ideal man. She sees him as God sees him, not as society sees him, not as the judge on the bench sees him.

How often we hear the expression: "How that mother can see any good in that ugly brat of hers is more than I can understand." But the mother does see something beautiful in that "ugly brat"; she sees great possibilities in her boy, where others see none. She sees him in the years ahead a good husband, a good father, a good citizen. The fond mother does not see her homely or defective child as other people see it. She sees her boy growing into a splendid man with all his possibilities unfolded and given expression. She does not see her crippled girl as other people see her. She looks beyond the physical deformity, and

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