I want to turn these words around and make a motto of them for you boys
and girls. For I think that if every boy and girl would shine inside,
our homes, and the world in general, would be a much happier place.

Of course there are some boys and girls who shine only on the _outside_.
A little while ago I read a story about Byron, a great poet, of whom you
will learn later in school. A man said to Sir Walter Scott that he
wished he might have seen Byron when he was alive. He said he had only
seen a photograph of him. Scott said, "Yes, the luster is there [in the
photograph], but it is not lighted up." Now, there are some boys' and
girls' faces that have a luster, but it is not lighted up.

Or their faces are like a mirror that shines brightly only when there
is sunlight or some other light falling upon it. The mirror only shines
outside. The luster is not always lighted up. I know boys and girls who
shine outside only when other boys and girls play the game which they
want them to play, or when they get the clothes they want to wear or the
food they want to eat, or when they are out in pleasant company. But
when they don't have their own way, then their faces are very cloudy.

But the boy or girl who shines _inside_ is one who "irons out his
wrinkles with a smile" even though things do not exactly please him, and
he thinks of other people instead of himself.

Now, how can boys and girls shine inside so that they will always shine
outside whether they have their own way or not? Well, you remember that
the Bible says that when Moses came down from the mountain his face
shone, because he had been talking with God. That is the secret, boys
and girls. When a man or a woman or a boy or a girl talks often enough