26 WHAT KIND OF HEART

ancéj they do +n fact think more of internal
goodness. Mankind, in all ages and countries,
love, réspect, and revere the person who has
a good heart; the person, whose soul is habi-
tually exercised by piety toward God and
love toward mankind, is always esteemed
and loved in return.

Such a person is almostsure to be happys
even if he is destitute of money, he has that
which in this world is of more value, the
good will, the sympathy, the kind wishes
and kind offices of his fellow-men. If a per-
gon wishes success in life, therefore, there is
no turnpike road to it like a good heart. A
man who seeks to extort, to require, to com~
mand the good-will of the world, will miss
his object. A proud person, who would
force men to admire. him, is resisted; he 1s
‘Yooked upon as 4 kind of robber, who de-
mands what is not his own, and he is usually
as much hated as the person who meets you
on a by-road at night, and, holding a pistol
in your face, demands your purse.

The proud person, the person who de-
mands your respect, and tries to force you
into good will toward him, turns your feel-