ustration: Fig. 106]

"'If thou faint in the day of adversity,' says the Psalmist, 'thy
strength is small.' Remember this: _Every shadow has a light behind
it!_ It is toward that light that the discouraged one must turn his
face. Look up, not down! [Add lines to complete Fig. 107; the hair
covers the face of Fig. 106.] No man ever saw the highest success who
'looked down his nose' when trial came. Look up--like the man in the
picture!"

[Illustration: Fig. 107]

THE MAN WHO FINALLY HEARD
--Kind Words
--The Tongue

The Restoration of His Hearing Brought to Him Pain as Well as
Pleasure.

THE LESSON--That we should guard well our tongues against speaking
careless, useless or vulgar words.

This illustration is based on the actual experience of an Indiana
man. It contains a lesson of such great importance that a chapter of
one of the strongest moral epistles of the New Testament is devoted to
it. The speaker would do well to study carefully the third chapter of
the Epistle of James as a foundation for the preparation of the talk.

~~The Talk.~~

[Before beginning the talk, draw the picture of the man, completing
Fig. 108.]

[Illustration: Fig. 108]

"The face I have here drawn represents the portrait of a certain
business man living in an Indiana town. Ever since the time of an
illness in childhood this man had been almost totally deaf. For years
he tried in vain to secure the aid which would restore to him his
hearing, and during all the period of his boyhood and young manhood he
could hear only those words which were spoken very distinctly, close
to his ear. Sometimes he could hear the thunder and other loud, sharp
sounds.

[Illustration: Fig. 109]

"Then, one day, came a great change! All at once he could hear almost
perfectly. What a great time it was! Once more he heard the songs of
the birds as he remembered them when he was a child; the voices of the
members of his family and the voices of his friends, new and strange,
came to him! What had brought the change? It was merely a new
invention, by which a disc containing a diaphragm was placed over his
ear. This diaphragm gathered the sound waves, just as the natural
ear-drum was intended to do. The disc fitted over his ear, like this:
[Add the disc and attachment, as in Fig. 109.] Was he happy? Of
course he was--but soon it was noticed by those about him that his
gladness seemed to fade away from his face and a kind of sadness took
its