parent write
the words, 'God is Love,' on the heart of each little one. The clear,
pure truth cannot be told too often. In after years, as memory brings
these children back to your loving arms, back to their little downy
beds, they will be comforted with the realization that the words have
become so deep-seated that nothing can eradicate them, even after
death has closed their eyelids.

"Some one has described the eyes of a child as 'clear wells of
undefiled thought,' and God forbid that as their eyes are lifted to
ours, full of innocence and confidence, we should give them anything
but the purest, most helpful truth as Christ reveals it to us. We
pledge ourselves earnestly to do this."

THE BURNED BOOK
--Patience
--Adversity

How Thomas Carlyle's Work of Many Years Was Destroyed in a Few
Seconds.

THE LESSON--That there is such a thing as success through patience,
and that the Christian should so live that he may rejoice in his
tribulations.

One of the crying needs of every-day life is the cultivation of
patience. Modern life, with its hustle and bustle, and the
ever-present contest for supremacy in its commercial and social
phases, displays a growing unrest and nervousness. Patience is a rare
quality which should be treasured and nurtured.

~~The Talk.~~

"Paul once wrote a letter to the church at Rome in which he said, 'We
glory in tribulations, also, knowing that tribulation worketh
patience, and patience experience, and experience hope, and hope
maketh not ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad in our
hearts."

"But we're not all like Paul. If we had been saying it, we might have
put it this way: 'We despair that we have tribulation, knowing that
tribulations work impatience, and impatience discouragement, and
discouragement makes us feel sure that God doesn't care for us.'
Nevertheless, just the opposite is true, for we know that 'whom the
Lord loveth He chasteneth.'

"Everybody has trouble. It comes to all of us in many forms. Ofttimes
it is a blessing in disguise. If it were not so, we would not find so
many of God's people afflicted in the ways which the Scriptures
describe. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph and all of the great
leaders of the New Testament, as well as of the Old, had their deep
troubles and sorrows. And it is so today with God's people.

"Patience is a virtue of which the poets sing. 'How poor are they,'
says Shakespeare, 'that have not patience! What wou