Honour calls for deep sincerity of conduct, whether in social or business life. Its motto is, "Do on the hill what you would do in the hall." In his own conscience, the man of honour has a "thousand witnesses." Honour faces and performs its allotted task, not for the praise it may win but because it is right. Amid failure as in success, honour remains unchanged. The honourable man is always honourable, even in misfortune.

Though honour is a moral quality, it may be spoken of as a weapon, an instrument to awaken awe. It has a keep edge, but the blade is not for hurting but for saving.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to do full justice to the inherent beauty of honour. There is a colour, a poetry, a harmony in an act of honour one cannot describe. "You can paint a flower but you can�t paint its scent".

Many think of honour as no more than an adornment, but they gravely underestimate its value. Honour is not only an adornment; it is a necessity. Without honour, in an individual or in a nation there is moral decay.        �S. Perry

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Prescription for heartache

q One element is physical activity. The sufferer must avoid the temptation to sit and brood.

q Resolve to get back into the mainstream of life�s activities. Take up your old associations. Form new ones. Get busy walking, swimming, playing.

q Superficial escapism through feverish parties and drinking merely deadens pain temporarily and does not heal.

q The deeper remedy for heartache, of course, is the curative comfort supplied by God. Inevitably the basic prescription for heartache is to turn to God in faith, and empty the mind and heart to Him. �Norman V. Peale