look for a moment upon another symbol--a symbol of
purity and true service--they might be saved from the bitter path into
which they are stepping. [Revise drawing by adding the bail and the
lettering, completing Fig. 16. If time will allow of the singing of a
verse of 'The Old Oaken Bucket,' the innovation will prove a pleasing
touch.]

[Illustration: Fig. 16]

"Perhaps the warnings against liquor have become commonplace to
you. Perhaps you feel that you do not need to be told the story of the
great curse. But if the warning comes echoing back to you in the time
of temptation you will bless the hearing of it, for it may mean
everything to you and your loved ones and the generations to come.

"It is the Master who said, 'And whosoever shall give to drink unto
one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a
disciple, verily, I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his
reward.' But what may one lose when he puts the drunkard's glass to
the lips of a young man?

"Hear the voice of Solomon: 'The drunkard and the glutton shall come
to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.' 'Wine is a
mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is
not wise.'

"If Jesus held up to us a cup of cold water as the emblem of purity,
let us never bring dishonor upon one of earth's greatest blessings.

"'Traverse the desert, and then ye can tell
What treasures exist in the cold, deep well;
Sink in despair on the red, parched earth,
And then ye may reckon what water is worth.'"

--ELIZA COOK.

TURN OVER A NEW LEAF
--New Year's Day
--Gladness

The Psalmist Truly Says that "A Merry Heart Maketh a Cheerful
Countenance."

THE LESSON--That the wearing of a gloomy countenance is
unpardonable and that "the smile that won't come off" is the kind that
ought to come on.

Laughter is catching. The following chalk talk will capture an
audience and bring genuine smiles as nothing else, perhaps, in this
book. It has been prepared for that purpose. While it is arranged here
as especially appropriate for the beginning of the new year, it may be
used with varying applications on many other occasions.

~~The Talk.~~

"There is a good deal of consolation in the words of Cowper, who truly
declares that

"'The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.'

"Nevertheless, most of us ask