It was Christmas time, and on Christmas Eve the children hung up their
stockings as usual. Next morning they were awake early, and eagerly
turned out the stockings to see what they contained. Among other things
Horace and Stanley found that they each had a beautiful large
picture-box full of lovely chocolate creams.
After dinner on Christmas Day Stanley brought out his box, and handed it
round to everybody, and by the next day his chocolates were all
finished.
But Horace hid his box away in a drawer, and kept going to it, and
taking out a few at a time, so his chocolates lasted much longer than
Stanley's, and he ate them all himself, but we are obliged to say that
he was rather selfish. "Shared joy is double joy," and of the two boys
we are sure that Stanley would be the happier.
Shall I tell you a little secret? Selfishness will spoil the =other=
stones if you let it come into your Temple, and as to the =gold=--the
lovely gold of "Kindness" that the little "Gold-wings" brought--Selfishness
will =eat it all away= in time. I am sure we all hate selfishness; let
us write down
(Blackboard.)
We will not have the Ugly Stone "Selfishness" in our Temple.