nday-school class.

II.--Let us live with noble people, _i.e._ read steadily books which keep
us in touch with larger minds--if you are constantly meeting clever people
that does instead, but if you lead quiet lives with not much to talk
about, except gossip and family events, then secure a daily talk with
people worth talking to.

III.--Let us live part of each day with God. St. Christopher is the patron
saint of those who want to lead a noble, helpful life, and yet feel that
in them there lies no touch of saintliness, save it be some far-off touch
to know well they are not saints.

You know his story: how he sought to serve the strongest, first the
Emperor, then the Devil, then the Crucified; how he went to an old hermit
and said, "I am no saint, I cannot pray, but teach me to work for the
Master;" and how at last he found that in his common work he attained to
the service of the Crucified.

You and I are sent into the world to serve the strongest, and we know that
means the Crucified.

What makes Life worth while, and increasingly worth while, every year you
live, is that He does not offer us Pleasure, though He gives it to most of
us in overflowing measure: He offers us a share in His work. Think of all
we owe to others, to all who love us--to all who make life easy to
us--and feel what a debt we owe. Think of the work He is doing--of the
work He died for. Think how He calls each one to His side to be His friend
and helper and fellow-soldier. Think of the possibility which belongs to
each one of us, of being one of His great army of those whose name is
Help.

Let us thank Him for our Creation, in that such possibilities are before
us. Verily, Life is well worth living.

"Go forth and bravely do your part,
O knights of the unshielded heart."

[Footnote 8: Emerson.]

THE END.

WORKS BY L. H. M. SOULSBY

STRAY THOUGHTS FOR GIRLS, 2s. 6d. net.

(New and Enlarged Edition.)

CONTENTS: Lines written on being told that a Lady was "Plain and
Commonplace"--The Virtuous Woman--Making Plans--Conversation--Aunt Rachel;
or, Old Maids' Children--"Get up, M. le Comte!"--A Friday Lesson--A Home
Art; or, Mothers and Daughters--_Esprit de Corps_--Rough Notes of a
Lesson--Holidays--Sunday--Friendship and Love--A Good Time.

The Original Edition of this book is still on sale, 16mo, 1s. 6d. net.

STRAY THOUGHTS FOR MOTHERS AND TEACHERS, 2s. 6d. net.

CONTENTS: The Religious Side of Secular Tea