By George Matthew Adams

The word "sincere" is derived from two words meaning "without wax."

Many years ago the old Romans used to mend broken vases with a kind of wax which would make the vases seem perfect, almost as good as though they never had been broken. So that the repaired vases used to resemble the genuine, unbroken vases.

But to designate the unbroken vases, they used to talk about them as "sincere" vases — that is, vases that had not been mended — vases "without wax."

Now, then, to be "sincere" is to be your wholehearted, genuine, "without wax" self. It's a great feeling, when you think of the meaning of this little word, to be able to say: "There's a man or woman who is 'sincere.'" He is not patched up, he is sound, he is real.

I have always liked the custom of closing a letter with "Sincerely yours," ever since I read about the meaning of the word "sincere." Somehow it gives a closing seal to a letter which seems to make that letter worth while.

Let us try ever so hard to be "sincere" folks. First, sincere with ourselves, and then sincere with the whole, wide world.

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