more and more cultivate the company of
those older whose graces of person and mind would help me on in my good
work. I would always seek good company.

"If I were a boy again I would study the life and character of our
Saviour, persistently, that I might become more and more like unto him."

Now President Harper was a great, wise and good man. If he felt that he
would do certain things were he a boy again, surely the rest of us
could improve upon our boyhood years had we the chance.

If I were a boy again I would be more attentive to Church and Sunday
School and the things that were taught me there. If I were a boy again I
would get my day school lessons with greater care. If I were a boy again
I would be more obedient to and more thoughtful of my parents.

Why should I talk like this, for I cannot be a boy again? But you boys
have your boyhood. It is a present reality. Let President Harper teach
you. Be the boy he pictures.

MEMORY VERSE, _Psalm_ 103: 1-5

"Bless the Lord, O my soul ... who satisfieth thy mouth with good
things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's."

MEMORY HYMN [678]

_"By cool Siloam's shady rill."_

ONE BY ONE

Here is this great church building. It is a beautiful structure, is it
not? It is so substantial, it has stood here so many years, we take it
so for granted that it seems as though it had always been here. But
there was a day when the ground upon which this building stands was
vacant ground. Then men came with picks and shovels, wagons and plows,
and set to work. They laid the foundations, stone upon stone. Then the
walls rose, stone upon stone. Then the spire, stone upon stone, until
the very peak was reached, for our church is stone from the foundation
to the top of the spire. How were these thousands of stones put in
place? One by one.

Think also of the roof of our church. It is a tile roof. How in the
world did they get all those tiles up on the roof and fitted in place?
Did some man who was very strong stand back and throw a handful of tile
at the roof? No, it was done one by one.

To-day it is snowing outside. Some one has figured that in a square
mile one foot of snow would weigh 65,000 tons. If you should take sleds
and horses, and put a ton of snow on each sled, and arrange the horses
and sleds in a procession, the sleds carrying the snow from that square
mile of territory would reach from Philadelphia to New York, and beyond
New York, s