Families and households often get awry. The younger brother differs from his elder brother,—sisters fall out. One wants more than belongs to him; another is knocked to the wall because he is weak; and there come into the heart bitterness and alienation, and often brothers and sisters have scarce a kind word to say of one another.
Is it always to be so? Do not merely make it up, do not patch it up, do not cover it up,—go right down to the base. But who is to begin? I can tell you. You are! “But I am the eldest,”—yes, and therefore ought to begin. “But I am the youngest.”
Then why should the youngest be obstinate? Who are you that you should not go and throw yourself down at your brother’s feet and say, “I have done you wrong, pardon me?” Who is to begin? You! Which? Both! When? Now!—PARKER.
