Give Yourself

GIVE YOURSELF.

"What can we do for you?" asked the church visitors of the poor old soul whom they found on the pallet of straw in the attic. They thought she would say "bread," "fuel," "covering," for she lacked all of these. "What do you want?" "People," she said; "send some one to talk to me. I am lonely." It is kind treatment that the weary world most needs. To Artabazus, a courtier, Cyrus gave a cup of gold, but to Chrysanthus, his favorite, he gave only a kiss. Whereupon the courtier said, "Sire, the cup you gave me was not so good gold as the kiss you gave Chrysanthus." Many a heart will still be hungry, vacant, famished and aching after receiving magnificent presents, because the giver is not in his gift. Only the heart can feed the heart. Many a noble heart has starved 'mid plenty because its famished affections were not fed. You cannot send the best of yourself in a ton of coal, a book, a doll or a check. "It will not go without you. You must go with it. Give yourself; this is what your friend wants. Success.