Make Us Courteous and Kind

March 18.

Finally, be ye all of one mind,
having compassion one of another,
love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous.

1 PETER 3, verse 8.


Make us of one heart and mind;
Courteous, pitiful, and kind;
Lowly, meek, in thought and word,
Altogether like our Lord.

C. WESLEY.


A little thought will show you how vastly your own
happiness depends on the way other people bear
themselves toward you. The looks and tones at
your breakfast-table, the conduct of your
fellow workers or employers, the faithful or
unreliable men you deal with, what people say
to you on the street, the way your cook and
housemaid do their work, the letters you get,
the friends or foes you meet, these things make up
very much of the pleasure or misery of your day.
Turn the idea around, and remember that just
so much are you adding to the pleasure or
the misery of other people's days. And this is the
half of the matter which you can control.
of happiness or of suffering is largely beyond
your power to determine. Whether each day
of your life shall give happiness or suffering
rests with yourself.

GEORGE S. MERRIAM.