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Show Pleasant Word. Did you give one to the last person you met. If so, and that is your habit, you are to be congratulated, as are also all whom you meet. It is a delightful habit, and one which all can cultivate. The cost of pleasant words is little. Their value is great. Children are hungry hun-gry for them. Weakness finds strength in them. Discouragement is dispelled by them. They inspire hope. They live in an atmosphere of sunniness and cheerfulness, and they beget such an atmosphere. They make old hearts young and sad hearts glad. They wipe tears away with a touch as gentle as the hand of an angel, and with a commanding com-manding voice they bid despondency be gone. Pleasant words are pleasant both to speak and to hear. They are neither coarse nor harsh. They do not have a metallic sound, but rhythmic and musical. mu-sical. They suggest In sound the song of birds and the laughter of childhood, and in spirit the ray of sunshine and the zephyrs of nature's choicest summer sum-mer days. They woo and lull, and soothe and charm. Their quality Is balm, their mission to heal. Blessed, thrice blessed, pleasant words! They are most truly spoken when to speak them is the habit of one's life. They are better spoken by force than not at all, but their aroma Is most fragrant fra-grant when they are uttered with a spontaneity begotten of habit, and when back of them lies a heart warm with the love of Jesus Christ Rev. & L. Hamilton. |