them.

"The Christian welcomes the thought that there is to be a
harvest-time. The sinner hates the thought; he would that his entire
life be a seedtime; but it cannot be. The law of seedtime in life is
just as firmly fixed as are the seedtime and harvest of nature. Let us
learn the lesson. It means life or death to you and to me."

THE TWO FLAGS
--Rally Day
--War

Both of Them Inspire Us to the Best Living--An Illustration with
Music.

THE LESSON--That the same spirit which brings success in war must
animate the fighters against evil.

Rally Day, which is observed at the opening of the autumn activities
of most schools, has become one of the greatest days of the Sunday
School year. It should be made a glad occasion of reunion and
resolution. This talk is unique, in that it combines music with the
speaking and the drawing.

~~The Talk.~~

"It was fifty years ago, boys and girls, that the terrible war between
the North and the South was in progress. On both sides the soldiers
were bravely loyal to their cause, for the reason that each great army
believed it was right; each side rallied round its flag--and loyalty
was the thing most necessary. In most conflicts, as in the case of one
nation fighting with another, it is only necessary to bring a war to a
point where the weaker is convinced of the superior strength of its
enemy. Then the war ends and the weaker is still a nation and has lost
only that which was destroyed during the course of the struggle,
together with that which may he demanded as concessions by the
victorious army. Both nations retain their existence as before. It was
not so with the struggle between the North and the South. Before this
terrible war could end, it was necessary that one or the other of the
fighting governments be wiped out entirely _as a nation_.
Otherwise there could never have been any peace. This is what made the
war one of the most terrible in the history of the world.

"It was a time when loyalty was demanded by both sides to the
conflict, when men were summoned to rally round their flags. On the
side of the North the soldiers bravely gathered in hosts of hundreds
of thousands around this flag, which is now beloved throughout our
reunited states (while the South was just as true and brave and
sincere in the belief that they were right, in their convictions, and
for which they fought).

[As you draw the United States flag, in red, white and blue, Fig. 27,