Show THE FACE IN THE PICTURE we do not know how it came there or when it first appeared for then it was only shadowy like a ghost we almost feared but gradually the features deepened til of our holy of holies apart A face that is in a picture in the innermost room of the heart sometimes wt wo think we have seen it amid the busy throng at a crowded crossing maybe as life goes jostling on A smile a glint a gesture a reminder that recalls with a start the face that is in thle the picture in the innermost room of the heart what matter how friends may fail us there remains that face so true what matter the bitter estrangements estrange ments it can never misconstrue what matter what arrows assail us balm for the wound of the dart Is that comforting face in the picture in the innermost room of the heart looking ever looking with a zest anew each morn waiting ever waiting with a hope each day reborn lonely always lonely as we draw from the crowd apart to the friendly face in the picture in the innermost room of the heart ff happy is he who finds it this complement of the soul the reward of the favored only as fate unwinds the scroll but hope at the end of the rainbow the coveted wealth doth impart ven een a face that is in a picture in the innermost room of the heart for sometime there is arranged a meeting in the scheme of infinite love when all the woe of the waiting will dissolve in the joy from above the loved one the hour the place where to meet is never to part jart the face that is in the picture in the innermost room of the heart edna M thompson war is the negation of real civilization you get rid of your enemies only by making them your friends and you can do that only by loving your enemies that is one of the great laws of life sir wilfred grenfell 0 there is no brotherhood for human beings if there is not a common fatherhood F W maurice |