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Perfect you—perfect everybody

BARBARA J. PRESLER

A friend of mine who sells Oriental rugs and invited me over to see her collection of prayer rugs said, "Don't expect them to be perfect! Not only do you have to allow for mistakes a machine would rarely make, but the expert rug makers will put small, deliberate errors in because they believe it would be wrong for man to be perfect—only Allah is perfect.

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Please, God—thank you, God

LOWELL N. CANNON

They are wise parents who teach their children at an early age the importance of including in their conversation the words "please" and "thank you.

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Signs of the times

The new trend toward ethics and morals is not primarily a swing back to biblical authority, but it is a challenge to the "everything is relative" brand of conduct of recent years.

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God's child naturally

ALTA ZARA JOHN

Because man is naturally the child of God, he is the direct recipient of God's goodness and love.

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But he built the ark, too!

JANE CLARK WALKER

Talking contemptuously about people's shortcomings is a destructive habit easy to fall into; and we may find we do it most often concerning the people closest to us or those who are accomplishing something good in the world.