sseday. Every year, thousands of bouquets of
beautiful flowers find their way into homes of the sick and the poor
throughout the land. And so, with the forgetting of the sufferings of
Jennie Casseday and the remembrance of her beautiful life, I think we
may well change this crutch to something more commemorative of her
life. [With green chalk, change the crutch to a stem of a carnation,
and with pink draw the blossom, Fig. 55.]

[Illustration: Fig. 55]

"In Louisville, the people have sought to honor the memory of this
young woman by the establishment of the Jennie Casseday Infirmary and
the Rest Cottage Home for Working Girls. The school children of
Louisville erected a beautiful monument to her memory bearing an
appropriate inscription.

"Some of us who have our health and strength may well wonder if we are
fulfilling all of God's demands. Boys and girls, let me impress upon
you the thought that it is not the great, showy thing that makes
people love us, but the careful doing of the seemingly little things,
which, when summed up, make a magnificent whole. Jennie Casseday did
what she could. No more is required of us. But that much is certainly
expected, and we will fall short if we fail to meet the expectation."

[A beautiful close to this talk would be the recitation or reading of
Dr. Van Dyke's poem "Transformation," which may be found in "The Blue
Flower" or in "The Builders and Other Poems."]

MOTHER
--Mother's Day
--Home Training

The Great Men of the World Pay Her the Highest of Tribute--A
Carnation Day Thought.

THE LESSON--That the welfare of the church and of the home rests
more with the mothers than with the Sunday School teacher.

It is interesting to read the recorded words of some of the world's
greatest minds in tribute to motherhood. The following talk, quoting
some of these, should be an impressive lesson to the young and to the
mothers as well.

~~The Talk.~~

"Who are these mothers for whom we have decorated our school room and
ourselves with these beautiful flowers? [Draw, in black outline the
carnation blossom; add the stem in solid green, and place the
lettering in purple, red or blue, Fig. 56.]

[Illustration: Fig. 56]

"Surely these mothers must be of great importance or we would not be
having a special service for them today. I have been reading a little
about mothers, to see if they are really of much value to the world,
and I want to repeat some of the things I