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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 -

Rosa Bonheur, the great painter and lover of animals, bought from the owner of a menagerie a lion which he declared untamable. The artist, however, believed that love would accomplish the impossible. "In order to secure the affections of wild animals you must love them," she said, and in a comparatively short time her love had effected what the lion tamer had given up as hopeless. She used to play with and fondle the huge animal as if he were a kitten. When old and blind he died with his great paws clinging affectionately to the mistress whose love had tamed him.

It is interesting to see how quickly even the fiercest animals yield to the magic of love. Under the kindly treatment of one who really loves them, one who, like St. Francis, looks upon them as his "little brothers and sisters," the wild expression gives place to a milder, gentler one; the suspicious look is replaced by a trustful one; the brute nature is gradually softened, and distrust gives way to confidence; affection takes the place of dislike and fear; love goes out to meet love. The more love we give to any animal, the gentler and more tractable it becomes. Note the gentle, peaceful,

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