It is in loving, not in being loved, The heart is blessed; It is in giving, not in seeking gifts, We find our quest. Whatever be thy longing or thy need, That do thou give. So shalt thy soul be fed, and thou, indeed, Shalt truly live. --_M. E. Russell._ The world is a looking glass, Wherein ourselves are shown,-- Kindness for kindness, cheer for cheer, Coldness for gloom, repulse for fear,-- To every soul its own. We cannot change the world a whit, Only ourselves, who look in it. --_Susan Coolidge._ I would say to all: use your gentlest voice at home. Watch it day by day, as a pearl of great price; for it will be worth to you in days to come more than the best pearl hid in the sea. A kind voice is joy, like a lark’s song, to a hearth at home. It is a light that sings as well as shines. Train it to sweet tones now, and it will keep in tune through life.--_Elihu Burritt._ In a world in which so many people wear the same clothes, live in the same house, eat the same dinner, and say the same things, blessed are the individuals who are not lost in the mob, who have their own thoughts, and live their own lives.--_Hamilton Wright Mabie._ There are people who go about the world looking for slights and they are necessarily miserable, for they find them at every turn.--_Drummond._ He who has a thousand rooms sleeps in but one.--_Japanese Proverb._ Be happy, peaceful and satisfied just as you stand, having sufficient steadiness and independence to hold your own against the eddies and rapids about you. Apply practically that which you perceive spiritually. Accept your position as it is, and make the very best of it till it passes. Work with it, knowing that Infinite Wisdom is guiding you: and so cease all anxious thought, and rest.--_God’s Light as It Came to Me._ Aspire, break bounds! I say, Endeavor to be good, and better still, And best! --_Robert Browning._ CHRISTMAS DAY. Glory be to Thee in the highest heavens, O Thou God of our salvation. Thou hast proclaimed peace on earth and infinite good will to men. Unto us has been born a Guide and Deliverer. We hail the morning which commemorates His birth. We thank Thee that we may unite in the joyful commemoration which makes us one with millions of Thy children in all parts of the world.--_Altar at Home._ Lift up yourselves to the great meaning of the day, and dare to think of your humanity as something so divinely precious that it is worthy of being an offering to God. Count it a privilege to make that offering as complete as possible, keeping nothing back, and then go out to the pleasures and duties of your life, having been born anew into His divinity, as He was born into our humanity on Christmas Day.--_Phillips Brooks._ Then wisely weigh Our sorrow with our comfort. --_Shakespeare._