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Love's Way

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An Invitation - Try Love's Way - The Greatest Thing in the World - Making Life a Song - The Dream of Brotherhood - Driving Away What We Long For Most - Employers and Employers - Spite Fences - Work and Happiness - Practising Love's Way - Training the Child - How to Lighten Your Words - Survival Value - The Miracle Worker - Our Little Brothers and Sisters - The Thing That Makes a Home - "Stranger, Why Should I NOT Speak to you?" - "I Serve the Strongest" - The Daily Orientation - Scatter Your Flowers As You Go - Love Letters From God - The Harmony Bath - Heroism at Home - What the Bee Teaches Us - Love's Way and Christmas Giving - Contents -

There is only one way to correct faults in men or women and that is by always appealing to the best in them. It is a question of the expulsive power of a stronger affection. If you wish to get a knife or other dangerous article away from a child, give him a toy or something that he likes better, and of his own accord he will drop the thing you don't want him to have. But the moment you try to pull it away from him, to force him to give it up, you arouse the natural antagonism in him and he is going to fight you. Men and women are only grown up children.

As a rule, however, men are the chief sinners in bringing discord into the home, in neglecting their part in contributing the things that make for the family's happiness.

Although marriage is supposed to be a partnership, the average man cannot seem to get the idea out of his head that he has the right of proprietorship, that he is really the owner and the boss not only of the house but of every one in it, and that he is under no obligation to contribute anything to it beyond the material things.

I know a man of this sort, a very able man,

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