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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 -

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"STRANGER, WHY SHOULD I NOT SPEAK

TO YOU?" "STRANGER, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?" says Walt Whitman.

This would be love's way. But convention steps in and says, "No, you must not speak to strangers," and we obey.

Time and time. again, when I meet our soldiers and sailors on the street, my first impulse is to offer them my hand and express my gratitude for the great debt which I personally owe them. I know that these boys are giving up their vocation, their chosen career, their home, those dearer to them than life, to fight for me, and it seems coldblooded to pass them without any sign of recognition. But the iron habit of convention too often strangles my natural impulse, and I pass them by without a word or sign of recognition, or of my feeling toward them. I never do so, however, without

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