with God in prayer and asks to be made like Christ, then a light is
lighted within him which causes his face to shine. You remember Christ
said, "I am the Light." Let Him into your heart, and you will shine
inside.

"The man worth while is the man with a smile
When everything goes dead wrong."




THE STORM-KING EAGLE


If you have been up the Hudson River from New York to Albany by the
day-boat, you will probably have noticed a high mountain on the
right-hand side of the river by the name of Storm King.

I want to tell you about an eagle that used to live there. He could be
seen there almost any day soaring high above the mountain-peak. And many
a hunter had tried to shoot him. But he avoided them all. And how do you
think he did it? Did he hide from them? No. Just by flying so high that
the bullets could not reach him, or, if some chance bullet did reach
him, he was so far away that it just kissed his plumage and fell back to
earth without doing him any harm.

I wish that every boy and girl were as wise as that old eagle. That is
always the way to avoid being wounded by sins: just keep high up above
them. I mean by that, when you are tempted to do anything that is
wrong, not to stop and argue with yourself whether you will get caught