Show Depending on Praise Even when we know that we do net deserve praise there is something inexpressibly inex-pressibly sweet in getting it and moat If us swallow it greedily without detecting the misfit Life is too apt to become insipid in-sipid without ij This is not to say that a certain amount of commendation is not necessary to healthful mental and moral growth From infancy to old age humanity must have appreciative words from time to time They are wholesome and stimuiat Ing but to depend upon praise and flattery flat-tery for ones happiness to sink into gloom without them to allow ones cheerfulness cheer-fulness to lapse when the outside world seems to be unaware of ones important presencethis is simply despicable Church Standard |