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Show TENDERNESS. Tenderness does not mean weakness, softness, effeminateness. It is consistent con-sistent with strength, manliness, truth and bravery. It does not show itself alone in the touch, but in unselfishness, thoughtfulness, considerateness, forbearance, for-bearance, patience, long-suffering. But however it shows itself, it is as the bloom of the peach, as spring showers on the earth, as the music of angels stealing down on the plains of Bethlehem. Bethle-hem. You may not have much of this world's wealth to distribute, but, you may give some-thing better. and spend a useful and beneficent life 'if you will practice this lesson of shedding around you the grace of human tenderness, in, word and act and by the 'Spirit of your life. i |