So it seemed; but this world has been a little sweeter ever since the breaking of the vase that let the perfume escape into its common air.

So it is with many things that are done, and many lives that are lived.

They seem to fail, and there is nothing on the earth to show where they have been.
Yet somehow the stock of human happiness is larger and the world is a little better.
Our work for Christ that fails in what we intended may yet leave a blessing in some other way.

A faithful Bible-class teacher through many months visited a young man, a member of her class, in sickness.
She read the Bible to him and sang sweet hymns and prayed by his bedside.

He was not a Christian and she hoped that he would be led to Christ.