you clearly.

But if you neglect it, it will grow silent, and you will be left in
darkness and in doubt as to what is right and wrong.

Some people call this voice the "inner light," and that is a very good
name for it. Every time you walk by the light you put fresh oil in the
lamp, and the light grows stronger and the way clearer.

Whenever that inner voice speaks to you and tells you that a thing is
wrong, don't argue with the voice and give reasons for doing the thing
that is wrong. Obey the voice at once, as Parker did, and it will save
you endless trouble.

THE BOY AND THE NICKEL

A man once found a boy crying on the street, and asked the little chap
what he was crying about. The child told him he had just lost a nickel.
The stranger gave him another, and then the boy began to cry again. This
greatly astonished the man, and he asked him why he was crying again.
The little chap said, "Because, if I hadn't lost that other nickel, I'd
have two now."

That was, of course, a very foolish way to look at it, but that is the
way a great many people look at things. This is what is called
covetousness. Covetous people always want something they have not, and
so they are usually unhappy.

The way to be happy is to think of the things you have, and not of the
things you have not. A man was once told that Caesar was going to cause
him great unhappiness, and he replied that if Caesar could blot out the
sun with a blanket he might make him unhappy. But if he had the sun to
shine upon him, he would still be happy. We all have the sun to shine
upon us, and other things a-plenty to be happy over, if we will just
count them up. Let us not be like the little boy crying about the nickel
he did not have.

THE THREE FATES

Boys and girls in ancient Greece believed that there were three fates,
in the form of three women seated above the clouds, who spun the thread
of everyone's life, and cut it off with shears when death came.

We no longer believe in such things, but we still speak of fate. Boys
and girls sometimes say that they are fated to fail in examinations, and
so think they cannot help failing. But that is no more true than the
belief about the three women which the Grecian boys and girls held. As a
matter of fact, nothing outside of us makes evil things happen to us. We
make our own fates. Or shall I say, we _are_ our own fates? Someone has
said, "Our fates lie asleep along the roadside until we waken