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Porters and doormats

MARCEIL RUTH DeLACY

When Jesus said, "Unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also," Luke 6:29.

"Who can steal from you?"

Beverlee Asher

During exams in my senior year of college I was ignoring most people and situations, devoting all my attention to schoolwork.

Don't be handled by error!

HELEN B. CHILDS

Who of us hasn't felt handled—or taken in—by wrong thinking at one time or another?

Maintaining a good "build"

HOWARD NOBLE CHASE

Instructing his helpers on the basics of building with fieldstone, an experienced stonemason always stressed this point: "Don't spend time hunting for a stone of ideal size and shape.

You don't have to be weighed down

FABIAN CRAIG

A weight problem is often a question of dominion over false appetite.

Destroying guilt—an aid to healing

ROBERT A. MOSS

Illness, bodily malfunctions, and many diseases called incurable may be rooted in a deep and abiding sense of guilt.

Release from self-condemnation

CYRIL ALEXANDER BARBER

Do you ever mentally chastise yourself for some human failing that you might readily forgive in others?

Appreciate yourself

ERIC BOLE

"I'm not good enough," "I always get things wrong," "I'm never going to succeed.

The colt

Julia Sivori de Montenegro

One morning Juan and Romulo got up earlier than usual to see if their father's favorite mare had dropped her foal.

Parable

JOHN LINDSAY RENNIE

Years ago, as a husky lad in my teens, I was given the job of breaking a large granite boulder into pieces suitable for lining a driveway.

Satisfaction—guaranteed!

HAL H. HOERNER

The centuries break, the earth-bound wake,God's glorified!Who doth His will—His likeness still—Is satisfied.

You don't need to suffer

MARGARET COLEMAN BROWN

"If God loves me, as you say He does, why is He making me suffer so?