ou to feel that here is your place of
activity--your school.

"But we shall remember the words of Paul, 'We have many members in one
body, and all the members have not the same office,' and we shall not
forget the important places in our school of those who are enrolled in
our Home Department."

THE BROOK
--Gossip
--Our Words

The Life Which is Tainted by the Habit of Speaking Unkind Words
Falls Short of Its Highest Mission.

THE LESSON--That the subtle practice of speaking carelessly
concerning other people poisons many an otherwise worthy life.

The teacher who leads the child to cultivate the strictest care in his
thoughts and in his words, as they relate especially to those about
him, has helped to lay the foundation of a life of true worth to his
fellows. The tendency is toward a habit of fault-finding criticism
which not only harms the object of the disparaging words, but which
injures and undermines the usefulness of the life of the habitually
unfair critic.

~~The Talk.~~

"Marion Lawrance, whose influence permeates much of the work for the
advancement of the Sunday School of today, uses a most striking
illustration to show the baneful result of the use of words which harm
those about whom they are spoken. Standing before his audience, he
displays a rose in full bloom. Mr. Lawrance then deliberately destroys
the beautiful flower by removing one daintily tinted leaf after
another until only the bare stem remains and the delicate petals
litter the floor and the speaker's table. During the process, the
speaker explains that none but God could have made such a rose; it
speaks of His love and His power, of His tenderness and of His care
for His children. But any human hand can destroy it. So it is with
that treasure which we call our good name--our reputation among
men. Through the grace of God we may live so true that we deserve the
respect and honor of our fellowmen; and yet, that good name, that
reputation, may suffer irreparable injury at the hands of one who,
through deliberate design or careless habit, speaks words concerning
us which cause us to be misjudged or misunderstood. Says Samuel
Butler:

"'The feeblest vermin can destroy
As sure as stoutest beasts of prey;
And only with their eyes and breath,
Infect and poison men to death.'

"Let us illustrate the point by placing on the paper a little
landscape. [Draw Fig. 78 complete leaving the right half