w, and it seemed as
if the traveller's coat would be blown from his back or torn to tatters.
But the harder the northwind blew the tighter the man drew his coat
about him, and the wind could not get it off his back. After it had
spent all its force it gave up in despair.

Then the sun had its turn. It came out without noise or violence like
the northwind. It did not whistle in the treetops nor bluster through
the bushes. It did not buffet nor struggle with the man. It just went on
pouring forth its heat. And it seemed as if it could never win, any
more than the northwind. But soon the traveller took out his
handkerchief and wiped the perspiration from his face. Then, before
long, he took off his hat. Soon he unbuttoned his coat, and finally he
took it off of his own accord. The sun had won the contest against the
northwind!

Now, a fable is meant to teach a lesson. The lesson of this fable is
that gentleness wins where only strength and rudeness fail. If some one
has done you a wrong, the way to deal with him is not to try to "get
even" with him, as we say. Nor is the best way to get angry with him and
scold him. The Bible tells us that the way to overcome your enemy is to
do good for evil, for it says by so doing you will "heap coals of fire
upon his head."

Usually it is the weak people who bluster like the northwind, and storm
and brag. Strong people are usually quiet. There is an old saying that
"if you are right you can afford to keep your temper, and if you are
wrong you cannot afford to lose it." Be gentle. You will win more that
way than by getting angry.

THE BOY AND THE TURTLE

Theodore Parker was one of the greatest preachers America ever had, and
this story is told of him as a boy. One day, as he was going across the
fields, he came to a pond where he saw a small turtle sunning itself
upon a stone which rose out of the water. The boy picked up a stick, and
was about to strike the turtle, when a voice within him said, "Stop!"
His arm paused in midair and, startled, he ran home to ask his mother
what the voice meant. Tears came into his mother's eyes as she took the
boy in her arms and told him that it was his conscience which had cried
"Stop!" Then she told him that his conscience was the voice of God, and
that his moral safety depended upon his heeding that inner voice.

The same thing is true of all boys and girls. If you obey that inner
voice in questions of right and wrong, it will speak to