know where you can get the plans for a good and
noble life--a plan that will include eternity. I will tell you: in the
Bible. This is the best book in which to find the plans for a perfect
and complete life. Just the same as the man who is going to build a
house desires to go and examine other houses, so if you desire to be
great and good, you should desire to read the biographies, the story of
the lives of great men. I do not mean the fancied stories of lives which
were never lived, which are so often told in some kinds of books, but I
mean the lives of real men. When you see the difficulties which have
been overcome by others; when you see how great and good other people
have been, it will help you to be great and good. But after you have
studied the lives of all the greatest and best men who have ever lived,
and then compare them with the life of Jesus Christ, you will eventually
come to see very clearly and distinctly, that after all there has never
been but one perfect life lived on this earth, and that was the life of
Jesus Christ. So you will readily see that if you desire to use a model
which is perfect, you will have to take the life of Christ. You will
find it fully portrayed in the Bible, especially in the first four books
of the New Testament--Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. This will give you
the model of a perfect life and enable you to live so as to make your
life glorious while upon the earth, and prepare you for an eternity of
happiness and joy beyond this world. Have a plan and live to it, and let
your plan include eternity. And may God give you grace to live up to a
high ideal, to be noble Christian men and noble Christian women.

QUESTIONS.--What are needed before a house is
built? Are all boys and girls builders? Builders
of what? Do they need plans? Should we all have a
main object in life? What must we use all other
plans and purposes for? Which boy in the story
turned out the better? What does the story
illustrate? Should we have a plan for each thing
we do? Does God love order? What foundation are we
laying in this life? Should our plans concern only
this life? What kind of a builder are we like, if
we make no plans for the life to come? Where can
we get our plans? What perfect model can we
follow?

THE CHRISTMAS TREE.

THE LESSONS WHICH IT TEACHES.

BOYS