Please tell me who taught her to play with it ?" It is one of the unexplained mysteries of human nature that people receive their griefs as direct from the hand of God, but not their joys.

Why does not a kind Father mean for us to profit by the one as much as by the other?
And since into nearly every life falls more sunshine than shadow, why leave the sunny places and go out of our way to sit and mope in the darkest, dreariest shade we can find?
I believe in the Gospel of Cheerfulness.

It is your duty and mine to get every drop of cream off of our own especial pan of milk.

And if we do have to drink skim milk, shall we throw away the cream on that account?
If it were not to be used it would not be there.

God does not make things to have them wasted.
All of us have our worries--some small, some great--and the strength and depth of our characters are proved by the way in which we meet the trials.