| The Joy of Service |
Chapter 19 |
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The son was right in saying that he lines should not be taken from his mother’s picture as it would not have been his mother’s picture at all if the marks of the years had been taken out. Beautiful in its way was the face of the young girl before there was a line of experience furrowed in it; but far more beautiful in its way is the face of the woman at seventy, – faded, wrinkled, deeply tracked – because it records a story of heroism, gentleness, endurance, patience, self sacrifice, pain, suffering, all the marvelous story of mother love.
Those who are young are only beginning to make their character, but every day will leave some mark. The lesson is the need of watchfulness over all their life. Every book they read, every picture they look at, every friendship they form, every touch of another life on theirs, every thought they cherish, every experience of joy or sorrow, of victory or defeat, has its place among the makers of their character.
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