of his team, or he will not play. If it happens
to be a girl, she insists upon everybody playing the game she wants, or
she will go home in a sulk. These people cannot agree long with anybody.
They are quarrelsome and peevish.

Some boys and girls are like horses: they make good single-drivers, but
they will not work with anyone else. Some horses go well enough alone,
but when you hitch them with another horse they crowd, or bite, or kick
it. They cannot "go double," as we say. That is the bramble-nature
showing out in a horse.

This is a bad trait, whether you find it in a horse, a man or woman, a
boy or girl. Christ says: "You know the rulers of the Gentiles lord it
over them. Not so shall it be among you; but whosoever would become
great among you shall be your minister; and whosoever would be first
among you shall be your servant." Jesus also said, "I am meek and lowly
in heart." So must all His followers be.

If you are getting any of the bramble-nature, and want to lord it over
everybody, you had better give it up. Some of the unhappiest people in
the world are bramble-bush kings.

WHERE IS HEAVEN?

Our great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers used to talk much about
where heaven was. And some thought it was up above the clouds, and
others thought it would be here on earth, after all the wickedness and
selfishness were done away. Every one, however, used to think that the
New Jerusalem, with its pearly gates and golden streets, was a real
place like the cities of to-day.

But we think of heaven more as the feeling in our hearts when we are
happy from being with our friends, or when we have done right and
unselfish things. We know what it is, then, to have heaven on earth. And
when we have heaven on earth, we know pretty nearly what the real heaven
is like.

Let me show you what I mean. Not long ago a speaker in a rescue mission
asked the children if they could tell him where heaven was. Immediately
a boy from the poorest section of the city sprang up, raised his hand
and cried shrilly: "I know; I know." "Well, my boy, where is heaven?"
the astonished leader asked. "Back in our street since mother got
acquainted with Jesus," was the answer.

That boy was on the right track. Whenever Christ comes into the heart
there comes with Him love and thoughtfulness of others. And when we do
kind things for others, we find happiness for ourselves, and that is
heaven. Christ says, "If any man hear my voice an