,fifty-,two ,story ,talks ,,to ,,boys ,,and ,,girls ,,by ,,rev4 ,,howard ,j4 ,,chidley1 ,b4,d4 ,,pastor ,,trinity ,,congregational ,,church1 ,,east ,,orange1 ,,new ,,jersey ,,garden ,,city1 ,,new ,,york ,,doubleday1 ,,doran ,,company1 ,,inc4 ,copyright1 #aiad by ,,george ,h4 ,,doran ,,company ,,printed ,,in ,,the ,,united ,,states ,,of ,,america ,,to ,,my ,,daughter ,elizabeth ,,foreword ,no department of ,christian literature is of more importance for the future of the ,church than that which seeks to enlist the children in the service of ,christ4 ,mr4 ,chidley1 by his gifts and experience as a pastor and a teacher of the young1 is eminently fitted to contribute towards this most vital phase of ,christian activity4 ,his successful career in the ,central ,congregational ,church of ,brooklyn1 where ,i shared the privilege of his valuable co-operation1 and in the ,trinity ,church of ,east ,orange1 ,new ,jersey1 of which he is now the beloved and honored pastor1 bespeak the merits of this series of addresses to ,boys and ,girls4 ,they are at once an efficient protest against the ,protestant neglect of the young and a remedy for that neglect4 ,parents1 instructors1 and guardians of the juvenile members of our ,churches will be wise to read1 mark1 learn1 and inwardly digest the teachings and exhortations presented here4 ,it is a book of absorbing interest1 and the little folks and those of older years can not fail to be both profited and delighted by it4 ,the revolution in ,christian thought concerning the relation of children to the ,church and the ,kingdom of ,god is apparent on every page4 ,dr4 ,martineau averred that children do not require to be led so much as not to be misled1 and in these ,fifty-two ,stories we have a model application of his weighty aphorism4 ,the receptive and expansive hours of child nature are admirably considered1 and what is here written has a direct bearing upon its spiritual development and welfare4 ,s4 ,,parkes ,,cadman4 ,the ,parish ,house1 ,central ,congregational ,church1 ,brooklyn1 ,n4,y41 ,march #b1 #aiad4 ,,contents ,,page ,,introduction xiii ,a ,,bible ,,riddle #c ,,closed ,,gates #f ,,hiring ,a ,,coachman #i ,,the ,,fiercest ,,thing ,,in ,,the ,,bible #aa ,,sacrifice ,,hits #ac ,,the ,,liberty ,,of ,,obedience #ae ,,cutting ,,corners #ah ,,habits #bj ,a ,,lesson ,,in ,,courtesy #bc ,,little ,,foxes #be ,a ,,tricky ,,ox #bh ,,shine ,,inside #cj ,,the ,,storm ,,king ,,eagle #cc ,a ,,dog ,,which ,,ate ,,the ,,bible #ce ,,steam ,,and ,,sails #cg ,a ,,fish-,,story #ci ,,opportunity #da ,,god ,,is ,,now ,,here #dc ,,david ,,livingstone',s ,,faith #de ,,the ,,happy ,,man #dg ,a ,,sermon ,,for ,,the ,,boys #di ,,tire-,,trouble #ea ,,watching ,,for ,,idle ,,boys #ec ,,christ ,,and ,,the ,,dog #ee ,,the ,,boy ,,who ,,was ,,to ,,be ,,manager #eh ,a ,,tale ,,about ,,words #fa ,,suffocated ,,trees #fd ,,ulysses ,,and ,,the ,,sirens #ff ,,poison-,,labels #fh ,,lies ,,that ,,walk #ga ,,wellington ,,and ,,the ,,soldier #gc ,,abraham',s ,,guest #ge ,,about ,,generosity #gh ,,sun ,,and ,,wind #hj ,,the ,,boy ,,and ,,the ,,turtle #hb ,,the ,,boy ,,and ,,the ,,nickel #hd ,,the ,,three ,,fates #hf ,,the ,,inch-,,worm ,,and ,,the ,,mountain #hh ,,the ,,french ,,drummer-,,boy #ia ,a ,,king ,,in ,,the ,,stuff #ic ,,bread ,,and ,,wine #if ,,the ,,first ,,christmas ,,carol #ih ,a ,,hint ,,from ,a ,,caribou #ajj ,,the ,,repentance ,,of ,,samuel ,,johnson #ajc ,,easter #aje ,,the ,,whispering ,,gallery #ajh ,,the ,,he-,,said ,,girl #aaa ,,on ,,deck #aac ,,the ,,terror ,,by ,,night #aaf ,,the ,,bramble ,,bush ,,king #aai ,,where ,,is ,,heaven8 #abb ,,the ,,christian ,,army #abd ,,introduction ,in a certain ,western university the president receives a salary of ten thousand dollars a year for training young men and young women1 while not many miles distant from that university is a stock-farm the superintendent of which receives a salary of twelve thousand dollars for training high-bred colts4 ,that colt-trainer is at hand when the colt is foaled1 and before it rises to its feet has rubbed down its head and put a halter upon it1 so that from birth it shall be accustomed to the feeling of the halter4 ,from that time the training of the colt is not suspended for a moment4 ,if in training it to travel in harness a piece of paper should blow across the training-course1 causing the colt to shy1 an assistant holds the paper on the opposite side of the road1 so that the animal shall have the kink taken out of its nervous system and its tendency to shy again in the same direction be at once corrected4 ,the old method was to allow a colt to run wild until two or three years of age1 then break it in4 ,the result was apt to be either a cowed animal or a nervous horse4 ,would that we were manifesting as much wisdom in the religious training of our children as that horse-trainer4 ,but unfortunately we are pursuing largely the old method1 allowing our children to get full of all sorts of mental kinks up through those first plastic three or four years1 and then handing them over to the church kindergarten-teacher for one hour a week1 expecting her to straighten out all these aberrations and give back to the parents a normally religious child4 ,many parents seem to assume that the child's brain is lying dormant during those first few years1 when1 as a matter of fact1 the child's mind during these years is most receptive1 and expanding at a rate never after equalled4 ,the nervous system is receiving impressions which1 though in after-years the child has no conscious memory of it1 are yet indelibly chiselled there for good or ill4 ,it is high time that parents and religious teachers took more cognizance than they do of this fact4 ,there are other parents who deliberately refuse to give their children any religious training during this period for fear of unduly influencing them from the religious standpoint4 ,this point of view is stated1 whether seriously or not1 in the following quotation from a recent writer3 ,i think it is a bad thing to be what is known as 'brought up1' don't you8 ,why should we--poor1 helpless little children1 all soft and resistless--be squeezed and jammed into the iron bands of parental points of view8 ,why should we have points of view at all8 ,why not for those few divine years when we are still so near ,god1 leave us just to wonder8 ,we are not given a chance4 ,on our pulpy little minds our parents carve their opinions1 and the mass slowly hardens1 and all those deep1 narrow1 up-and-down strokes harden with it1 and the first thing the best of us have to do on growing up is to waste precious time beating at the things1 to try to get them out4 ,surely the child of the most admirable and wise parents is richer with his own faulty but original point of view than he would be fitted out with the choicest selections of maxims and conclusions that he did not have to think out for himself4 ,i could never be a schoolmistress4 ,i should be afraid to teach the children4 ,they know more than ,i do4 ,they know how to be happy1 how to live from day to day1 in godlike indifference to what may come next4 ,and is not trying to be happy the secret we spend our lives trying to guess8 ,why1 then1 should ,i1 by forcing them to look through my stale eyes1 show them1 as through a dreadful magnifying-glass1 the terrific possibilities1 the cruel explosiveness of what they had been lightly tossing across the daisies1 and thinking they were only toys8 ,all of which sounds very pretty1 but when simmered down1 the wisdom1 if wisdom it be1 of a statement like that can be compressed into the old adage1 ,where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise4 ,but the point is that the world has pretty generally come to the conclusion that bliss is not necessarily the most healthful thing1 either for adults or children4 ,soft and resistless6 ,precisely1 there is the crux4 ,if these soft and resistless minds do not receive good impressions they will receive bad ones1 and it is the part of wisdom to get the good in first4 ,where a mind is to let1 some sort of tenant is sure to occupy4 ,coleridge put the case in a nutshell when an ,english deist inveighed bitterly against the rigid instruction of ,christian homes4 ,the deist said3 ,consider the helplessness of a little child4 ,before it has wisdom or judgment to decide for itself1 it is prejudiced in favour of ,christianity4 ,how selfish is the parent who stamps his religious ideas into a child's receptive nature1 as a moulder stamps the hot iron with his model6 ,i shall prejudice my children neither for ,christianity nor for ,buddhism1 nor for ,atheism1 but allow them to wait for their mature years4 ,then they can open the question and decide for themselves4 ,later ,coleridge led his friend into the garden1 and then whimsically exclaimed3 ,how selfish is the gardener to ruthlessly stamp his prejudice in favour of roses1 violets and strawberries into a receptive garden-bed4 ,the time was when in ,april ,i pulled up the young weeds1--the parsley1 the thistles1--and planted the garden-beds out with vegetables and flowers4 ,now ,i have decided to permit the garden to go until ,september4 ,then the black clods can choose for themselves between cockleburrs1 currants and strawberries4 ,the deist saw the point4 ,another weakness in our system of religious training for children is manifest at the adolescence-period of the child4 ,we have been in the habit of allowing the child to consider the ,bible-school as his church4 ,we send him to the ,bible-school in his very early years1 but make no demands upon him as far as specific church-attendance is concerned4 ,and at the kindergarten-period we are probably wise in this2 for after the child has attended kindergarten for an hour1 it is too great a tax upon him to require him to sit through an hour's church-service4 ,but after the kindergarten-period it seems to me the plain duty of parents to encourage the child to attend church1 though not necessarily for the entire service2 for if the child does not establish a church-going habit during these plastic years1 the probability is that he will never form it4 ,this partially explains why there is such a leakage between the ,bible-school and the church4 ,when the child gets too old for ,bible-school1 not having formed the church-going habit1 he is stranded ,between two worlds1 ,one dead1 the other powerless to be born4 ,and the result is he drifts away from the ,church4 ,in the endeavour to remedy this situation in his own ,church it has been the custom of the writer to have all children from seven to twelve years of age in the ,bible-school1 which meets on ,sunday morning before church1 attend the morning worship for the first fifteen minutes4 ,during this time they hear the ,call to ,worship1 the ,invocation1 the ,lord's ,prayer1 the ,children's ,sermon1 and the ,anthem by the choir4 ,at the close of the anthem the children file out with their teachers as the adult congregation rises for the ,responsive ,lesson4 ,in this way the children are establishing a church-going habit1 with the result that they early begin to feel that something is wrong on ,sunday if they have not been to church4 ,a word as to the content of the sermons preached4 ,i believe that a child's religion ought to be largely of the motor type4 ,that is1 it should be concerned with getting religion into the child's hands and feet4 ,in other words1 it should seek to establish in him a habit of right-doing4 ,for this reason his religion should be of the most practical sort1 leaving the theory to come later4 ,he should have sufficient theological pegs to hang his morality on1 but he should be troubled little with dogma4 ,for this reason his religion will probably have largely to do with the here and now4 ,he cannot be much interested in an other-worldly religion4 ,the normal child at this period will not sing with any great enthusiasm ,i want to be an angel4 ,for this world is to him just then a very interesting and fascinating place4 ,he is for that reason ready also to admire men of action1 and is wide open for the influences of hero-worship4 ,and while he cannot be argued into being a ,christian1 for he is not sufficiently awake to logic2 and while he cannot be coerced1 for he possesses the dynamic of a locomotive combined with the resistance of a mule1 he can be magnetized into being a ,christian if there is set as his teacher and example a virile1 magnetic man4 ,the boy will open his soul to him as he does his windows to welcome the breath of ,may4 ,such considerations as these have determined the content of these sermons4 ,the author makes no claim to originality for much of the material presented1 but he has given a new setting to old truths1 a setting which experience has proved to be interesting to the children of his own congregation4 ,it may seem that the wording of some of these sermons is beyond the grasp of the children for whom it was intended4 ,two things are to be noted in this connection4 ,first1 a child resents being talked down to4 ,he soon detects a condescending smile and mock affability in a speaker4 ,and when he detects these he closes the door of his heart against the message4 ,second1 it is better to give the child something to grow to1 provided it is not too far beyond his grasp4 ,but here again experience is the best criterion4 ,the children who have heard these sermons have enjoyed them1 and have carried their substance and lessons home with them to repeat to older ears4 ,they are offered to the public1 therefore1 in the hope that they may suggest a method1 add a little to the scant supply of material for children's sermons1 and serve to interest other children as well4 ,h4,j4,c4 ,orange1 ,new ,jersey4 ,a ,,bible-,,riddle ,boys and girls are all fond of riddles1 and ,i am sure you will be surprised to know that there is one of the best riddles of all in the ,bible1 one that is very hard to guess1 and yet one that has a fine lesson in it when ,i tell you the answer4 ,this riddle was told by ,samson on his wedding-day1 and nobody would ever have guessed it if his wife had not let the secret out4 ,but first ,i must tell where ,samson got his riddle4 ,well1 one day with his father and mother he was walking down the road to the land where the ,philistines lived4 ,and according to the story1 a young lion rushed out at him from behind some bushes1 and ,samson1 being a very strong man1 broke its jaws and killed it1 and left its carcass behind some bushes by the roadside4 ,some time afterward he was going down that road again1 and he turned aside to see what had become of the carcass4 ,and what do you think he found there8 ,this3 a swarm of wild bees had made their nest in that carcass4 ,now1 ,samson was fond of honey1 and he took the comb of honey with him and ate it as he walked along the road4 ,and as he walked he made up this riddle3 ,out of the eater came forth meat1 and out of the strong came forth sweetness4 ,that means that out of this lion which would have eaten him up he got something to eat1 and out of this strong beast he got something sweet4 ,i suppose you will wonder what sort of lesson for boys and girls anyone can draw from that4 ,you say you will never meet a lion on the roadside4 ,i am not so sure of that4 ,i think boys and girls meet things every day that are very much like lions4 ,of course1 in these days we call them temptations4 ,but1 then1 they jump out at you very suddenly and unexpectedly sometimes4 ,and they would devour your souls just as this lion would have eaten up ,samson had he not killed it4 ,and when you kill a temptation by not giving way to it you can make a riddle just like ,samson1 and you can say1 too1 ,out of the eater came forth meat1 and out of the strong came forth sweetness4 ,for just like ,samson1 every time you come to the place where you have overcome a temptation1--it may be to say unkind things1 or to be quick-tempered1 or to be hateful1--you will find that you will be stronger to overcome it next time4 ,and the remembrance of how you were able to overcome your feelings will be sweet1 just as that honey was to ,samson4 ,god says that if we trust ,him1 the young lion shall ye trample under foot4 ,,closed ,,gates ,if any of you boys and girls1 while riding through a great city on an express train1 ever chance to put your head out of the car-window and look forward along the tracks1 you will see several blocks ahead of the train people in carriages1 on foot1 and in street-cars crossing the railway-tracks in great numbers1 and it seems as if the train would have to stop1 or else it would run over somebody4 ,but the train never slackens speed4 ,the engineer keeps on blowing the whistle1 and the train thunders along at the usual rate4 ,then you will notice when you get near those crossings that all the gates are down and the railway-tracks are perfectly clear4 ,that is the way with many of the difficulties we face in life4 ,we set out to do the thing our conscience tells us to do1 and it seems as if the road were full of obstructions4 ,but you just go straight ahead1 determined to do your duty1 and lo1 the hindrances disappear4 ,when an earnest man goes right ahead1 the crowd usually opens up to let him through4 ,as you get older and face the world you will find it looks like a great1 fierce giant4 ,but really its fierce look is caused by a false-face that it wears to frighten faint-hearted people4 ,you go boldly up and take hold of his beard1 as ,david faced the giant1 and you will be surprised to find that not only the beard but the whole mask comes off in your hands1 and there is a kindly countenance behind4 ,for the world would rather see you succeed than fail4 ,i heard of a young man the other day who went into an office in ,chicago to sell a bill of goods4 ,the man behind the desk was very brusque and fierce-looking1 and snapped out1 ,well1 what do you want here8 ,the young man promptly replied1 ,i want first to be treated as a gentleman1 and then ,i may talk business to you4 ,the other man dropped his fierce manner at once1 and the young man sold him a large bill of goods4 ,the man behind the desk told him when he was leaving that he greeted strangers fiercely to try their mettle1 and if they ran away he concluded they weren't worth troubling with anyhow4 ,and so ,i say to you1 boys and girls1 be sure in your own minds that you are doing right1 then go boldly ahead1 and you will find the gates down and the tracks clear4 ,let this be your motto3 ,silken-handed stroke a nettle1 ,and it stings you for your pains4 ,grasp it like a man of mettle1 ,and it soft as silk remains4 ,,hiring ,a ,,coachman ,there is a story that tells of a man who advertised for a coachman1 and three men answered the advertisement4 ,they all made a good appearance1 and the man was at a loss to know which one to choose4 ,finally he hit upon this scheme4 ,there was a road near his house that ran along the edge of a precipice4 ,the man asked each one of these coachmen in turn how close he could drive to the cliff without going over4 ,the first said he could drive within six inches of it2 the second said he could drive within two inches of it4 ,when the third man was asked he said1 ,i should keep away from it as far as possible4 ,the man said1 ,you are the coachman ,i want4 ,the way that last coachman felt about the precipice is the way for boys and girls to feel about temptation4 ,some things that are wrong are like thin ice3 they tempt you to see how far you can go1 and the first thing you know you are in4 ,a boy1 especially1 is tempted to be what is known as a daredevil2 that is1 one who is not afraid of anything4 ,but there is nothing in it1 boys4 ,that sort of thing is not courage3 it is rashness1 which is just another name for foolishness4 ,shakespeare once said3 ,i dare do all that may become a man1 ,who dares do more is none4 ,the really brave boy is not the one that blusters and brags3 the brave boy is usually quiet1 but1 as we say1 all there when the pinch really comes4 ,christ was one of the bravest men the world ever knew1 and yet ,he told us to be afraid1 actually afraid1 of things that hurt our souls4 ,do not see how near the fire you can go without getting scorched2 don't see how near sin you can go without getting caught4 ,it is poor business4 ,take this as your motto when you are inclined to tamper with wrong3 ,who eats with the devil needs a long-handled spoon4 ,the farther you keep away from him1 the better4 ,,the ,,fiercest ,,thing ,,in ,,the ,,bible ,i suppose if ,i should ask you which is the fiercest animal mentioned in the ,bible1 ,i should get many different answers4 ,some of you would say the lion2 some1 the bear2 some the panther2 some1 the wolf2 and so on4 ,but none of these is right1 and ,i will tell you why4 ,all of these animals can be tamed1 more or less2 but there is one fiercer thing than all these1 and it cannot be tamed1 so one of the apostles says4 ,it is kept behind two red doors and more than twenty white bars1 and its name is spelled as follows3 ,t-,o-,n-,g-,u-,e4 ,yes1 that is it1 the tongue4 ,james says1 ,the tongue can no man tame4 ,it is not only one of the fiercest things mentioned in the ,bible1 but it is also one of the crudest4 ,i suppose you never thought that you could kill a person with your tongue1 did you8 ,and yet ,i have known some people say such mean things about others that those people were killed as far as living in their town was concerned1 and had to move away1 for all their influence was dead4 ,a pretty safe way when you are tempted to say anything unkind about another boy or girl1 who is not present1 is to ask yourself if it is fair play1 since the other cannot defend himself2 for ,i know that you all want to play fair4 ,that is the basis of all true sport4 ,and then remember also that when once you have said an unkind thing you cannot take it back1 for it lives on in spite of you4 ,perhaps you recollect the interesting idea which the old ,hebrews had of the separate existence of words as soon as they were spoken4 ,a curse once uttered could not be recalled because it now existed independently of the speaker4 ,you remember the story of the blessing of ,jacob by ,isaac4 ,isaac could not give it to ,esau1 because it had passed beyond his control4 ,boys flying kites1 haul in their white-winged birds2 ,you can't do that way when you're flying words1 ,things that we think may sometimes fall back dead1 ,but ,god ,himself can't kill them when they're said4 ,,sacrifice ,,hits ,i hope that all you boys play baseball1 and that many of you are on baseball teams4 ,if you are1 ,i suppose you know what is meant by a sacrifice hit4 ,it is called a sacrifice hit when the score is close and a player comes to the bat1 and1 although he would like to make a run1 nevertheless1 for the sake of the man on the base1 he makes a bunt1 so that1 while the pitcher or shortstop runs up to get the ball and put him out on first base1 the man on the bases may make another base4 ,you see1 then1 that instead of making what is called a grand-stand play he just gives up his own glory for the sake of his team4 ,did you ever think that your parents are constantly making sacrifice hits for you8 ,whenever your mother goes without a new dress in order that you may have a better suit of clothes2 whenever your father gives up some pleasure to keep you in school1 they are making a sacrifice hit for you4 ,and after all1 boys and girls1 that is about the only way the world has ever moved very far ahead4 ,socrates1 an old ,greek1 made a sacrifice hit when he was put to death in prison with poison1 because he wanted to make the young men of ,athens wiser4 ,martin ,luther made a sacrifice hit when he went to ,worms1 although he feared the ,pope would kill him4 ,but he was determined to get liberty for the people4 ,but the biggest sacrifice hit that was ever made was made by ,christ when ,he was crucified on ,calvary1 in order that the world might know that ,god was a ,father and loved ,his children4 ,and every boy and girl who would follow in the footsteps of ,christ1 and would be strong and noble1 must be prepared to make sacrifice hits1--to forget themselves and do things for the sake of others4 ,jesus said1 ,i came not to be ministered unto1 but to minister4 ,and a minister is one who serves1 one who makes sacrifice hits4 ,,the ,,liberty ,,of ,,obedience ,i know it would seem strange if ,i told you that every boy and girl has to be tied to something in order that he may be free4 ,and yet that is the exact truth4 ,the majority of you no doubt know what the multiplication-table is1 and ,i am sure you have thought it a pretty disagreeable thing4 ,perhaps you have wondered why seven times eight is always fifty-six1 and why your teacher insists that it shall be that every time4 ,you don't see why it can't be fifty-five just once1 or possibly fifty-seven4 ,but1 no1 sir2 it is always fifty-six4 ,when you get farther along in life ,i believe you will be glad to know that seven times eight is always fifty-six1 whether you meet it in the grocery-store1 or in the bank1 or in ,new ,york1 or in ,philadelphia1 or in ,china2 for it will be a comfort to know that the multiplication-table does not change1 like many other things1 as you go from place to place4 ,whenever or wherever you meet it1 it is always the same4 ,now1 because you were tied to that table as a boy or girl1 you will be free to go where you like with it in after-life4 ,the same is true about riding a bicycle4 ,you know that in order to be free to ride a bicycle you must obey the rules of riding it2 that is1 when you are in danger of falling to the right you must turn the front wheel to the right4 ,if you do not1 you will fall off4 ,here again1 you see1 you must be tied in order to be free4 ,you will find that a rule all through life4 ,that is why your parents and teachers lay down so many rules for you4 ,it is not because they want to hedge you in and torment you1 but that you may be free men and women later4 ,boys and girls who are never tied up1 sooner or later find that as men and women they are not free4 ,marie ,antoinette1 ,queen of ,france1 would not be tied up to any rules as a girl4 ,she was wilful and wild1 so in later life she caused the death of her husband and herself4 ,that same rule is even true of stars4 ,comets are tramp stars4 ,they refuse to be tied up1 and they ramble about all over the sky4 ,so they never have trees and flowers on them4 ,our earth1 on the other hand1 is tied up to the sun and goes round it like a horse round a racetrack1 and so it is bound by seasons and brings forth beautiful trees and flowers4 ,among other disadvantages of being a comet is that comets are in danger of losing a great part of their substance every time they approach the sun4 ,halley's comet1 which used to be such a wonderful sight1 has dwindled away to a very great extent4 ,when it came a few years ago scarcely any one saw it4 ,so it is always3 to be really free and to grow you must be tied2 and ,i hope that none of you children will ever be fretful when your parents and teachers make rules that you do not see the meaning of1 but which are for your good4 ,,cutting ,,corners ,have you boys and girls ever noticed how all the curbings at the corners of the streets in the city are worn smooth by drivers of carts and wagons trying to cut the corners as closely as possible8 ,but the principal thing to notice about those curbs is that you will often find on them the paint1 sometimes red and sometimes black or yellow1 scratched off the wheels of these carriages that are so anxious to cut corners4 ,and the wheels that cut corners soon get to looking shabby from lack of paint4 ,that is the way it nearly always happens with people who try to cut corners4 ,i know boys and girls who try it in school4 ,they try to skim through by doing just as little work as possible4 ,they cut the corners as closely as possible with their lessons1 so that they can have time for play4 ,they do that with the work in subtraction1 and then1 when they get into multiplication or division1 they have all sorts of trouble4 ,and soon their arithmetic looks very shabby indeed4 ,other boys and girls try to cut corners with the truth4 ,they see just how near a lie they can come1 and yet keep within the bounds of truth4 ,something inside tells them it is not quite fair4 ,and again1 when that happens1 they have rubbed some of the bright1 beautiful paint1 so to speak1 off their consciences4 ,and before long their consciences get to be quite shabby1 and not at all new1 and people begin to say that they don't quite trust that boy or girl4 ,and so ,i say to you1 boys and girls1 it does not pay to cut corners4 ,give yourselves plenty of room4 ,be open and fair and industrious4 ,for one who cuts close corners as a boy or girl1 usually grows up into a very small sort of man or woman4 ,,habits ,i wonder if ,i can make plain to you what a habit is4 ,have you ever seen men laying concrete sidewalks here in the city1 and they put boards across to keep people from walking on the pavements before they were thoroughly dry8 ,i am sure you have4 ,these men keep people off the walk while it is soft because1 if any one steps on it1 then his footprints harden into the walk as it dries1 and will always remain there4 ,now1 boys' and girls' minds are just like those cement walks when they are wet and soft2 and if you do a thing over and over again as a boy or girl1 you will make such a deep mark in your brains that when you grow up you cannot get the mark out1 and you just keep on doing it1 whether you want to or not4 ,when once you do a thing1 it is easier to do it again4 ,even cloth and paper find it easier to do a thing a second time than the first4 ,the sleeves of your dresses and coats fall into the same wrinkles and creases every time you put them on4 ,that is what we call the hang of a dress or coat4 ,and if you fold a piece of paper once1 it quickly gets the habit of folding along the same crease again4 ,and so you see that it is very important for you to get good habits as boys and girls1 for first you make the habits1 and then the habits make you4 ,you have often seen a little brook running along between its banks and over its pebbly bed4 ,well1 once there was no brook-bed there1 but gradually1 years ago1 a little stream began to trickle through1 and finally it wore out a bed for itself4 ,now it cannot leave the bed if it wishes to4 ,that is just what you do when you make a habit3 you make a course which you will follow later in life4 ,first you take the train1 then the train takes you4 ,first the stream makes the bed1 then the bed guides the stream4 ,they tell us that after we are thirty years of age we are little more than a bundle of habits4 ,i suppose thirty years seems a long way off for you boys and girls1 but you will reach it if you live4 ,and there will be men living somewhere who will hear the name that you boys now have1 and you are deciding now by the habits you make what sort of man he is going to be4 ,if you want him to be a good1 honorable1 strong man1 be sure you form good habits now4 ,a ,,lesson ,,in ,,courtesy ,i read a story recently of how a young man got his start in life through being courteous4 ,this young man was an assistant doorkeeper in the capitol at ,washington4 ,his work was to direct people where they wanted to go in that great building4 ,one day he overheard a stranger ask one of the other doorkeepers for help in finding one of the senators from ,california4 ,the doorkeeper answered in a very discourteous way that it was none of his business where the senators were4 ,but can't you help me8 the stranger said4 ,i was sent over here because he was seen to come this way4 ,no1 ,i can't1 the doorkeeper answered4 ,i have trouble enough looking after the representatives4 ,the stranger was about to turn away when an assistant1 who had overheard the conversation1 said3 ,if you are from ,california1 you have come a long way1 ,i will try to help you4 ,then he asked him to take a seat1 and hurried off in search of the senator4 ,he soon brought him to the stranger1 who then gave his card to the doorkeeper and asked him to call at his hotel that evening4 ,that stranger was ,collis ,p4 ,huntington1 who was a great railroad official in those days4 ,when the doorkeeper called upon him that night1 ,mr4 ,huntington offered him a position at nearly twice the salary he was then receiving4 ,he accepted the new position and was rapidly promoted from that time on4 ,the lesson ,i would have you learn from this is that you never know when a good deed is going to return to you4 ,i don't mean that you should be courteous1 expecting that you are going to be paid for it each time1 for the greatest pay for kindness is just the feeling that you have helped someone4 ,as the old saying goes1 ,civility costs nothing1 and on the other hand1 you never gain anything by getting the ill-will of anybody or anything1 even of a dog4 ,be courteous3 it is the mark of a gentleman1 of a lady1 and it is often the passport to success4 ,,little ,,foxes ,in far-off ,syria1 a country lying northeast of ,palestine1 the land in which ,jesus was born1 the farmers who keep vineyards are very much troubled with foxes and bears1 which destroy their crops at night4 ,and so1 to protect their vineyards1 they build high stone-walls about them1 and put broken bottles on the top to keep these animals out1 much as some people in this country who have orchards do1 in order to keep out small boys4 ,these fences keep out the bears1 because they cut themselves on the glass in trying to climb over1 and they also keep out some of the foxes4 ,but after all1 when the grapes are nearly ripe1 the owners of the vineyards and their men are obliged to build platforms up above the trellises1 and stay there all night1 in order to guard their crops4 ,these watchers manage very well with all the other wild animals excepting the little foxes4 ,they can see the big foxes and drive them off1 but the little ones they cannot see1 and so these destroy the vines4 ,i suppose that it was an experience something like that which led one of the ,bible-writers to say that the little foxes destroy the vines4 ,it seems to me that this is very true with sins1 too2 it is the little sins that destroy us4 ,when a big sin like stealing1 lying or cheating comes along we can see that easily enough1 and we will not let it over the fence into our lives4 ,we drive it away1 and are soon rid of it4 ,but when the little sins come1 like little foxes1 we do not see them1 and so they get in and destroy our character4 ,what are some of these little foxes8 ,i think one is pride1 which makes you so conceited1 because you live in a big house or have an automobile or fine clothes1 that you will not speak to or play with other boys and girls who have not quite such fine things1 although they may be just as bright and just as good as you4 ,pride is a little fox that kills the vine of brotherliness which ,christ planted in our hearts4 ,then another little fox is sulkiness4 ,sulkiness makes you frown and go away in a corner4 ,it sucks up all the sunlight there is1 and makes the world very gray and dull1 like a day in ,november4 ,this fox kills the vine called peace which ,christ planted4 ,one more little fox is jealousy4 ,this makes boys and girls dislike others who get higher marks than they in school1 or who have more friends1 or better toys4 ,it is one of the most destructive little foxes there is1 for it kills the best vine of all that ,christ planted3 that is1 love4 ,be careful1 then1 boys and girls1 of these little foxes1 for they are worse than bears and big foxes1 because they look so small and harmless1 and slip by when you are not paying attention1 but which destroy your character as readily as the others4 ,a ,,tricky ,,ox ,i want to tell you to-day about a tricky ox ,i once read about4 ,i suppose you will at once think that this ox was in a circus4 ,but he wasn't4 ,far from it6 ,it would have been better for some other cattle if he had been4 ,this ox is kept in the stockyards at ,chicago4 ,in those stockyards they kill thousands of cattle every year to give us beef to eat4 ,when the cattle come to these stockyards they are not tame cattle like the cows we see out in our pastures1 but they are cattle that have pastured out on the great broad prairies1 and they have seen very few people4 ,and for that reason they are very timid and hard to get close to4 ,so it is difficult to get them near the pens where they want them4 ,here is where the tricky ox comes in4 ,in one of those yards they keep a black1 short-tailed ox known as ,bob1 and he just walks along in an unconcerned way toward the pens1 and he looks so calm and unafraid that the other cattle just take confidence and follow along after him4 ,and then1 before they know it1 they are in a trap and can never get out4 ,but in the meanwhile ,bob has slipped away1 to play the same trick on other cattle4 ,there are some boys and girls just like that ox4 ,they are always urging other boys and girls on to do wrong things1 telling them that they are cowards if they don't take the dare and do it1 and showing how brave they are4 ,but when they have got you into a scrape1 and the real business of punishment begins1 they can't be found anywhere3 they have slipped out like old ,bob4 ,you must be on the lookout for boys like that4 ,don't be afraid to be called a coward by them4 ,don't let them dare you to do things which your conscience tells you are foolish or wrong4 ,you will be a bigger coward if you do these things because you are ashamed not to take the dare4 ,,shine ,,inside ,as ,i was passing along the street the other day ,i saw on the window of a bootblack's parlour the words1 ,shine ,inside4 ,i want to turn these words around and make a motto of them for you boys and girls4 ,for ,i think that if every boy and girl would shine inside1 our homes1 and the world in general1 would be a much happier place4 ,of course there are some boys and girls who shine only on the outside4 ,a little while ago ,i read a story about ,byron1 a great poet1 of whom you will learn later in school4 ,a man said to ,sir ,walter ,scott that he wished he might have seen ,byron when he was alive4 ,he said he had only seen a photograph of him4 ,scott said1 ,yes1 the luster is there in the photograph1 but it is not lighted up4 ,now1 there are some boys' and girls' faces that have a luster1 but it is not lighted up4 ,or their faces are like a mirror that shines brightly only when there is sunlight or some other light falling upon it4 ,the mirror only shines outside4 ,the luster is not always lighted up4 ,i know boys and girls who shine outside only when other boys and girls play the game which they want them to play1 or when they get the clothes they want to wear or the food they want to eat1 or when they are out in pleasant company4 ,but when they don't have their own way1 then their faces are very cloudy4 ,but the boy or girl who shines inside is one who irons out his wrinkles with a smile even though things do not exactly please him1 and he thinks of other people instead of himself4 ,now1 how can boys and girls shine inside so that they will always shine outside whether they have their own way or not8 ,well1 you remember that the ,bible says that when ,moses came down from the mountain his face shone1 because he had been talking with ,god4 ,that is the secret1 boys and girls4 ,when a man or a woman or a boy or a girl talks often enough with ,god in prayer and asks to be made like ,christ1 then a light is lighted within him which causes his face to shine4 ,you remember ,christ said1 ,i am the ,light4 ,let ,him into your heart1 and you will shine inside4 ,the man worth while is the man with a smile ,when everything goes dead wrong4 ,,the ,,storm-,,king ,,eagle ,if you have been up the ,hudson ,river from ,new ,york to ,albany by the day-boat1 you will probably have noticed a high mountain on the right-hand side of the river by the name of ,storm ,king4 ,i want to tell you about an eagle that used to live there4 ,he could be seen there almost any day soaring high above the mountain-peak4 ,and many a hunter had tried to shoot him4 ,but he avoided them all4 ,and how do you think he did it8 ,did he hide from them8 ,no4 ,just by flying so high that the bullets could not reach him1 or1 if some chance bullet did reach him1 he was so far away that it just kissed his plumage and fell back to earth without doing him any harm4 ,i wish that every boy and girl were as wise as that old eagle4 ,that is always the way to avoid being wounded by sins3 just keep high up above them4 ,i mean by that1 when you are tempted to do anything that is wrong1 not to stop and argue with yourself whether you will get caught if you do it1 or whether you will be happier if you do not do it1 or any of these things by which you lose time4 ,but just get right away from it3 put it out of your mind4 ,i suppose you will wonder how you can do that4 ,i will tell you4 ,you have often heard about wishing-caps1 and how the people in fairy-stories put them on and just wish themselves wherever they want to be1 and quick as a flash they are there4 ,well1 there is a wishing-cap that every boy and girl can put on when he is tempted2 it is this prayer1 ,o ,god1 help me not to do this thing which is wrong6 ,and if you say that prayer1 and believe ,god will help you1 it will take you high out of reach of the sin1 just as that old eagle flew high above reach of the bullets4 ,for ,god says that they who ask ,him for help shall mount up on wings as eagles4 ,a ,,dog ,,which ,,ate ,,the ,,bible ,i heard an amusing story sometime ago about a savage in ,africa who came to a missionary very much excited and told him that his dog had been completely spoiled as a watch-dog because he had chewed up and eaten a small ,new ,testament he had happened to get hold of4 ,he said that the dog would never be of any more use because the ,new ,testament which he had swallowed would take all the fight out of him1 and he could no longer keep wild animals away from the sheep4 ,that seems a strange notion for a grown-up man to get into his head1 doesn't it8 ,and yet1 boys and girls1 ,i run across some young people even here in ,america that think if they let ,christ into their hearts it will make them sort of wishy-washy and goody-goody1 and not strong and rugged people4 ,it is true that to be a ,christian does take some of the fight out of a person1 but it is the quarrelsome kind of fighting that has neither beauty nor strength in it which it takes out of one4 ,but when you come to read history you will find that some of our bravest soldiers were ,christians4 ,john ,havelock1 a ,british general who fought in ,india for the sake of his country1 was called ,the ,christian ,warrior4 ,sir ,oliver ,cromwell1 who had to lead an army in ,england against the king1 who was ill-treating the people1 had a body of soldiers under him who were ,christians1 and they were such good soldiers and so hard to defeat that they were called ,cromwell's ,ironsides4 ,sometimes just before battle these soldiers used to sing hymns and then pray on the battlefields4 ,and because they were ,christians it made better and braver soldiers of them4 ,and so the truest kind of courage that any boy or girl can have is the kind that ,christ gives4 ,paul tells all of us ,christians to be good soldiers4 ,the ,bible takes the wrong kind of fight out of you and puts the right kind of fight into you1 the fight for noble things4 ,,steam ,,and ,,sails ,all the vessels on the oceans can be divided into two classes3 steamships and sailing vessels4 ,the sailing vessels1 as you know1 set their broad white sails like wings to catch the favouring winds1 and then they go scudding across the seas like birds to their distant harbours4 ,but when there is no wind these vessels must sometimes lie becalmed1 and do not move for days or sometimes weeks4 ,the steamships1 on the other hand1 do not depend upon the wind to drive them ahead4 ,their power comes from great engines away down in the heart of the vessel4 ,even if the wind blows right in the face of the ship1 it only makes the boiler-fires burn faster and brighter1 and she plunges ahead in spite of wind or tide4 ,boys and girls also can be divided into two classes1 like ships4 ,some depend upon other boys and girls to make them go2 others have the go in themselves4 ,these people with the go in themselves we call go-ahead sort of people4 ,they are the boys and girls who become leaders4 ,the others are followers4 ,what the world most needs is these go-ahead people4 ,there are plenty of people who go like a sailing vessel when there is something from the outside to send them along4 ,i heard a man say the other day that another man was like a chip in a pan of milk2 that is1 he went only where he was pushed4 ,if you want to have go in yourselves1 try to think things out for yourselves4 ,don't do things just because somebody else does them4 ,don't wear things just because somebody else wears them4 ,don't say things just because somebody else says them4 ,paul says that people who are blown about by every wind do not amount to much4 ,i am sure of this1 at least1 that ,i should rather be a steamship than a sailing vessel1 that only goes when a wind blows4 ,a ,,fish-,,story ,a recent writer tells in one of his books of an experience he had as a boy when he went on a fishing-trip with his father4 ,they were wading along in brooks with their rubber-boots on4 ,but sometimes the water was too deep for him1 and he was in danger of getting his feet wet by the water running in over the tops of his boots4 ,when1 however1 they came to places like these1 his father would take him pig-a-back and carry him along1 and then the boy would fish with his rod resting on his father's shoulder1 and his line dangling in front4 ,and this writer says that he used to catch many fish in this way4 ,then he adds1 ,how many of our best catches in life are made over someone's else shoulder8 ,i think that fathers and mothers are always allowing their children to fish over their shoulders1 don't you8 ,when they send you to school to get an education1 so that in later life you may enjoy good books1 you are catching fish over their shoulders4 ,when they give you money to travel1 so that you may know what a big1 beautiful place the world is1 you are fishing over their shoulders4 ,when they give you beautiful homes1 so that you shall have good friends and grow up thoughtful1 well-mannered men and women1 you are fishing over their shoulders4 ,in fact1 it seems to me that we should not catch many fish at all if it were not for our loving1 painstaking1 unselfish parents4 ,and don't you think we ought to be obedient and thoughtful of them when they carry us along so uncomplainingly and rejoice in seeing us take in such beautiful catches from life8 ,,opportunity ,have you ever heard of a picture that was called ,opportunity8 ,it represents a person with a great deal of hair on her forehead1 but none on the back of her head4 ,the meaning of the picture is this3 ,when you catch an opportunity as it comes1 it is easy to hold2 but once you let it get by you1 it is very difficult to catch it again4 ,it is something like trying to catch a train that has just pulled out of the station4 ,i used to live near a boy in ,canada who did not like to go to school1 and when the snow was deep and the weather was frosty he would find some excuse by which he got his mother to let him stay at home4 ,when he grew up he found out what he had missed by not getting an education1 and he tried to make it up1 but he could not4 ,he was running after the train4 ,he soon got discouraged and gave up1 and tried to get his living in some other way than by hard work4 ,the last ,i heard of him he had just been arrested for stealing4 ,i have known other boys and girls who thought of joining the ,church1 but they just kept putting it off and putting it off1 thinking that any time would do well enough4 ,and then1 as they got older1 they felt that they weren't good enough1 or that some of their friends might not approve1 and so they have grown up and have not yet joined1 and each year it keeps growing harder4 ,the two opportunities that you boys and girls ought to take by the forelock1 as we say1 are1 first3 in getting all the schooling you can while you have the chance4 ,you will never have such a good opportunity again1 and if you let it slip you may never1 never catch up4 ,and second3 in making as fine a start as you can in your ,christian life by learning all you can about the ,bible and by getting ,christ's example into your hearts4 ,,god ,,is ,,now ,,here ,in a sermon which ,dean ,stanley1 an ,english minister1 preached to children in ,westminster ,abbey1 he told the following story3 ,there was a little girl living with her grandfather4 ,she was a good child1 but he was not a very good man2 and one day1 when she came back from school1 he had put in writing over her bed1 ',god is nowhere1' for he did not believe in the good ,god1 and he tried to make the little girl believe the same as he4 ,what did the little girl do8 ,she had no eyes to see1 no ears to hear what her grandfather tried to teach her4 ,she was very small4 ,she could only read words of one syllable at a time2 she rose above the bad meaning which he had tried to put into her mind1 because her little mind could not do otherwise1 and she read the words not ',god is nowhere1' but ',god is now here4' ,and she was right4 ,she was wiser than her gray-haired grandfather4 ,for ,god is now here4 ,he is everywhere4 ,and whenever even the smallest child speaks to ,him in the simplest prayer ,he hears the child's voice4 ,god is now here4 ,that is a good motto for us to take with us to school1 to keep us honest2 to play1 to keep us sweet2 to our homes1 to keep us unselfish4 ,,david ,,livingstone',s ,,faith ,no doubt you have all heard of ,david ,livingstone1 the great missionary to ,africa4 ,i wish to tell you a story of his faith in ,christ4 ,he was trying to cross one of the rivers of ,africa one day with his little company of men1 when the savages in that locality tried to prevent him4 ,they gathered in large numbers with their spears and poisoned arrows and war-clubs1 and blocked his way to the river4 ,livingstone and his little company were no match for these hostile warriors1 and it looked as if he and his men would be killed4 ,then he thought of a scheme of waiting till nightfall and of crossing over under cover of the darkness4 ,but later that seemed to him a cowardly thing to do1 and he tells us how the verse in the ,bible came back to him in which ,jesus says3 ,all power is given unto ,me in heaven and on earth4 ,go ye therefore and teach all nations 444 and lo6 ,i am with you alway1 even unto the end of the world4 ,the great missionary said of this verse3 ,it is the word of a ,gentleman of the most sacred and strictest honour1 and there is an end on't4 ,i feel quite calm now1 thank ,god4 ,next morning he crossed the river without any difficulty1 although the bank was lined with savages armed to the teeth4 ,i think that is always the way when we trust in ,christ4 ,he has promised never to leave us nor forsake us1 and we can rely upon ,his word4 ,,the ,,happy ,,man ,once upon a time there was a king who was very rich1 but very unhappy4 ,he had a beautiful marble palace1 with extensive parks and grounds1 fine horses and carriages1 but he was not happy4 ,so one day he called together his court-messengers1 and sent them out into the world1 telling them to travel far and wide until they found a man who was happy beyond all others1 and when they found him1 to take off his shirt and bring it to him4 ,for he thought that perhaps by wearing this shirt he might gain the happiness he sought4 ,the messengers went forth1 and after a long search finally found a man who seemed happier than all his fellows4 ,and as he sat singing in the sunshine the king's messengers pounced upon him to take away his shirt2 but lo1 when they took his coat off they found he had no shirt6 ,the story means this1 that happiness does not depend upon what you have or have not4 ,it comes from within1 and not from without4 ,if you have the right spirit you will have a song1 riches or not4 ,but if you have not the right spirit you will not be happy1 no matter what you have4 ,a ,,sermon ,,for ,,the ,,boys ,a teacher said the other day that ninety boys out of every hundred who fail in grammar schools and high-schools smoke tobacco4 ,he says also that boys who smoke are nearly all unruly and disobedient in school4 ,and he says again1 that boys who get their lessons well and stand high in grammar-schools take lower marks in high-school if they begin to smoke in high-school4 ,this ought to be enough to make any boy stop and think before he begins to smoke1 for it shows that it not only hurts a boy's mind1 but his morals also4 ,i think the reason most boys take up smoking is not because they like it1 but because their schoolmates do it1 and they want to be one of the crowd4 ,when you boil that down it means either that a boy wants to be smart1 or else he has not courage enough to stand alone2 that is1 he is a coward4 ,you would not think much of a boy who was about to enter a race and1 just before he entered it1 hurt his foot on purpose1 so that he could not run his best1 would you8 ,well1 that is just what every boy does who smokes3 it hinders him in the race of life4 ,you ought not to smoke before you are twenty-one years old1 because your body is not strong enough to stand it4 ,the safest way is not to smoke at all1 but at least don't smoke until you get your growth4 ,,tire-,,trouble ,people who own automobiles have a great deal to say about tire-trouble4 ,there are a great many kinds of tire-trouble4 ,in the first place1 a tire often gets punctured by a nail running into it4 ,then there are blow-outs caused by the inner tube giving way4 ,then there are leaky valves1 by which the air slowly leaks out4 ,there are also sand-blisters1 caused by little particles of sand getting into the tire and making a swelling in it1 which soon gives way4 ,and finally tires may get rim-cut1 which means that the steel rim which fastens them on wears them through by rubbing4 ,the result of these things is what is known as a flat tire with all the air gone out1 and the automobile bumps on the hard rim4 ,boys and girls have tire-troubles1 too4 ,i have seen boys and girls get so vexed about things that they just exploded in a burst of temper like a blow-out in a tire4 ,i have known them to run up against something sharp and difficult which took all the buoyancy out of them1 just like a nail causing a puncture in a tire4 ,i have known them to tell a lie1 although nobody else knew it1 and it bothered them so inside that it was like sand on the inside of the tire causing a sand-blister4 ,i have known them to fret about things so that all their enthusiasm leaked away just as the tire that had a leaky valve4 ,and finally ,i have known them to be rim-cut by associating with some sharp-tongued boy or girl4 ,the result of all this was a flat tire1 and these boys and girls just went bumping along without any happiness or lightness of heart4 ,they couldn't get anywhere with their work or their play4 ,the only cure that ,i know of for a boy or girl with a flat tire is more of ,god's uplifting strength4 ,god says that they who trust in ,him shall run1 and not be weary4 ,,watching ,,for ,,idle ,,boys ,probably all boys and girls whisper in school if they think the teacher will not catch them4 ,some teachers set boys and girls to watch one another and to tell on one another when they see anyone whispering4 ,i do not think that is a fair thing to do1 for it makes tell-tales of boys and girls4 ,and tell-tales are never attractive4 ,the story ,i am going to relate to you is about a teacher who set the pupils in a room to watch each other1 and to tell if they caught anyone idle4 ,one boy had a grudge against another1 and he thought that now would be the time to get even with him4 ,so he watched carefully1 and as soon as he found the other boy idling he called the teacher's attention to it4 ,of course every boy and girl waited anxiously to see what the teacher would do4 ,and then something unexpected happened4 ,the teacher said to the tell-tale3 ,so you saw this boy idling1 did you8 ,yes1 sir1 quickly answered the boy4 ,then1 said the teacher1 what were you doing when you found him idling8 ,the boy blushed1 and hung his head4 ,he not only had been caught idling himself1 but playing a mean trick4 ,that was a lesson for him3 he never watched for idle boys again4 ,and it ought to be a lesson for us1 too1 when instead of attending to our own work1 we neglect it1 and try to get other people into trouble4 ,,christ ,,and ,,the ,,dog ,my children's sermon to-day has to do with a legend4 ,a legend is a story that has come down to us from the olden times1 but which cannot be proved to be true4 ,this legend is about ,christ4 ,it tells of how one day ,he was walking down a street in ,jerusalem and saw a company of people gathered about a dead dog in the street4 ,now1 city dogs in the land where ,christ lived are not petted as they are in our own country4 ,they act as scavengers1 and live on whatever they can pick up4 ,they are shaggy and dirty and yellow4 ,the people stone them and kick them1 and do not call them by kind names4 ,so the people who had gathered about this dog were making unkind remarks about it1 saying how ugly it was1 when ,christ came up1 and looking at the dog1 ,he said1 ,but do you see what beautiful1 even1 white teeth he has8 ,then1 it is said1 the people knew this must be ,christ1 who could find something to praise even in a dog like that4 ,but that was the way ,christ always dealt with people4 ,he always saw something good in them4 ,and when people knew that ,christ saw something good in them1 they tried to live up to what ,he saw1 and to be good4 ,you remember how ,zaccheus1 the little1 short man who had been robbing the people by collecting too much tax-money1 climbed up into a sycamore tree to see ,christ pass by4 ,christ told him that ,he was going to take dinner with him4 ,and when ,christ dined with him1 ,zaccheus felt that ,christ thought he was better than he was1 and he became so ashamed of what he had been doing that he went and gave the money back4 ,and ,christ's rule is a good rule for us to follow4 ,if we wish people to be good1 we must look for the good things in them4 ,if we expect them to be good1 they will try to be good4 ,there is a jailer in ,chicago who1 when a man has served his term in jail1 gives him a letter of recommendation so that he can get a job4 ,and the men who get these letters are ashamed to do wrong and to get into jail again1 because of the disappointment they will cause the jailer who believes in them4 ,a girl once said to her mother1 who was always finding something good instead of bad to say of people1 ,mother1 ,i believe you would have something good to say of the devil4 ,well1 said her mother1 we might all admire his perseverance4 ,try to see how many good things you can see in people4 ,it's the best game of all to play4 ,,the ,,boy ,,who ,,was ,,to ,,be ,,manager ,a boy recently answered an advertisement of a certain firm in ,new ,york which wanted an office-boy4 ,he went to the office1 and as he was a bright1 neat-looking boy1 he made a good impression upon the manager4 ,the manager liked him and told him to report for work the following morning4 ,the boy was about to leave the office in great glee1 when the manager called him back and asked him to write his name1 in order that he might see whether or no he was a good writer4 ,the boy wrote his name in such a miserable scrawl that the manager could hardly read it1 and he told the boy that he was very sorry1 but he would be obliged to cancel his agreement1 and could not take him on4 ,he then advised the boy to take lessons in penmanship1 in order to improve his writing4 ,but1 the boy said1 why do ,i need to be a good penman8 ,i'm going to be a manager some day1 and ,i'll have a stenographer to do my writing for me4 ,yes1 said the man1 that may be true4 ,but before you get to be a manager anywhere you will have to work up to it through a great many years of lower positions1 and you must learn to write4 ,the boy could not see why1 and went to find work elsewhere1 before improving his writing4 ,there are a great many people just like that boy4 ,they expect to be managers1 superintendents1 presidents1 but they don't see that they must work up to it1 and every step must be faithfully and patiently taken4 ,some boys expect to be good at long division1 and they do not take any pains to learn subtraction thoroughly4 ,or they expect to be good in ,english1 and will not study grammar4 ,they are like the boy in this story4 ,some girls expect to appear like ladies1 but they pay no attention to what their mothers say about neatness1--such as keeping their hair in order and their shoes clean4 ,these girls are also like the boy of the story4 ,most things worth while in life have to be worked for1 and as you cannot well get upstairs at one jump1 but must take the steps between one by one1 so the good things of life come by patiently filling in each task with care and faithfulness4 ,then the big things will take care of themselves4 ,a ,,tale ,,about ,,words ,boys and girls like fairy-tales4 ,so my sermon to-day is to be in that form4 ,this fairy-tale comes from ,france1 and it is told by ,katherine ,pyle in her book1 ,fairy-,tales from ,many ,lands4 ,a widow had two daughters4 ,one was coarse and slovenly1 with an ugly disposition1 but because she resembled her mother the woman loved her and thought her beautiful4 ,the other daughter had hair like gold and a complexion like a pink rose1 while her eyes were as blue as the sky4 ,she was sweet-tempered and kind1 but her mother hated her1 and gave her all the hardest work to do and the poorest food to eat4 ,one day she gave her a heavy jug and sent her into the forest to bring water for her sister4 ,when the girl reached the spring she was tired and sad1 and sat weeping on the stone4 ,presently a voice behind her asked for a drink1 and she turned and saw a withered old woman sitting there4 ,so she gently raised the jug to the woman's lips1 and then refilled it and started home4 ,but the old woman called her back and said3 ,daughter1 you have helped one who is able to repay you for your kindness4 ,every word you speak shall be a pearl or a rose4 ,the girl hastened home4 ,her mother met her with scolding words1 asking her why she had been so long4 ,and when her daughter explained to her1 lo6 every word she spoke was a pearl or a rose4 ,the greedy old woman snatched up the pearls and left the roses4 ,then she called her other daughter1--the ugly one1--told her what had happened1 and said3 ,hasten1 daughter6 ,take the silver pitcher and run to the fountain4 ,if the fairy has given these for a drink from a jug1 what will she give for a drink from a silver pitcher6 ,the girl sulked off to the fountain swinging the pitcher and loitering along the way4 ,when she reached there no old woman was in sight1 but beside the spring was a tall1 beautiful young woman who asked her for a drink4 ,the ugly one replied1 ,there is the pitcher1 draw the water for yourself4 ,when she was about to go1 the young woman said sharply3 ,stop6 the words that fall from your lips are evil things1 and they shall look like the things they are4 ,every word you speak shall be a spider or a snake1 until you learn to speak kindly4 ,the girl trudged off home scarcely thinking about what the woman said1 little knowing that it was the same fairy who had spoken to her sister4 ,but when she began to answer her mother1 spiders and snakes dropped from her lips1 and she was very much frightened4 ,i wonder whether our words would be pearls or spiders if we could see them8 ,let us make them pearls4 ,,suffocated ,,trees ,we sometimes hear of people being suffocated by gas1 but it is not often we hear of trees being suffocated4 ,but the other day ,i was walking down the street1 and noticed that all the trees on one side of the avenue for several blocks were dead4 ,they looked as if they had been fine1 strong1 healthy trees1 and ,i could not understand why they had all died1 until ,i was told that a gas-pipe beneath their roots had leaked1 and that the escaping gas had killed the trees4 ,i am sure you and ,i know people who are like those dead trees3 they have become discouraged and wilted1 and if you and ,i could dig down into their lives we should probably find something like that poisonous gas which has ruined them4 ,sin is the most poisonous thing that gets into one's life4 ,if a boy or girl has done wrong and is hiding it from his father and his mother1 and his conscience is pricking him all the time1 then he cannot be sunny and healthy like a growing tree4 ,he becomes cross and easily provoked1 and is sulky and wilted4 ,if you have done something wrong1 which you ought to tell your parents about1 do not go to sleep until you have told them4 ,if you do1 you will wake in the morning with dread1 and you will go around all day with a dull ache which will spoil all the sunshine4 ,moreover1 if you begin keeping secrets from your parents in this way you will have no one to check you in your misdeeds4 ,your parents may punish you1 but they are the best friends you have4 ,and besides1 there is no punishment like hiding a feeling of guilt4 ,the next best thing after keeping from doing wrong is to own up to it in an honest way when you have done wrong4 ,many a boy and girl would have been saved untold trouble if they had only been frank with their parents4 ,one of the saddest days in any boy's or girl's life is when they first keep a guilty secret from their parents4 ,,ulysses ,,and ,,the ,,sirens ,when you boys and girls get older and further along in school1 you will probably learn of a famous ,greek whose name was ,ulysses4 ,he was noted as a heroic seaman1 who travelled over dangerous seas and into unknown lands4 ,in one of the seas where ,ulysses sailed was an island known as the ,isle of the ,sirens4 ,the sirens would attract sailors to their shores by beautiful music4 ,but when the sailors drew near the land they would irresistibly cast themselves into the sea1 to their destruction4 ,now ,ulysses had heard of the sirens through ,circe1 and he wanted to hear the maidens sing1 but he did not want to come within their power4 ,so this is the way he managed it4 ,one day he put wax in the ears of all his sailors1 so that they could not hear the music1 and then had himself strapped to the mast4 ,then he ordered the sailors to row near enough to the island for him to hear the music4 ,in this way he heard the singing1 but did not get caught4 ,that was a clever way of getting tempted1 and yet not getting caught1 was it not8 ,but someone has said in a joke it would have been better if ,ulysses had had an orchestra on board which would have made better music than the sirens4 ,then neither ,ulysses nor the sailors would have been tempted to go too near the dangerous isle4 ,that is a pretty good way of dealing with all kinds of temptation1--not by trying to keep temptation out1 but by putting something more attractive in its place4 ,if you are tempted to go to the moving pictures1 when you were told not to1 do not simply stand around outside the place with nothing else to do4 ,go off and play something which will be more attractive than moving pictures4 ,if you are told that you must not go fishing1 don't sulk around wishing that you could go4 ,just go at baseball or something else1 and soon you will have forgotten about the other thing4 ,always put something else in the place of the thing you are not to do1 and it will help you to overcome temptation4 ,,poison-,,labels ,you have all seen bottles of poison1 and you know when your father or mother buys poison from the druggist there is a label on the bottle marked ,,poison in large letters1 and on the label is a picture of a skull and crossbones4 ,this is done to warn people from drinking the poison4 ,now1 if a druggist were to put clear1 pure water into a bottle1 and put a label marked ,poison on it1 no one would drink the water if he were choking1 for fear of being poisoned4 ,and there are boys and girls just like that good1 pure1 fresh water with the poison-label on it4 ,they are good at heart4 ,they are kind and unselfish and obedient1 but nobody will have anything to do with them because they put such terrible poison-labels upon themselves4 ,i will tell you what some of these poison-labels are which frighten people away from boys and girls4 ,one of them is slang4 ,now1 of course1 some girls and boys who are inwardly little ladies and gentlemen use slang1 but usually slang is used by low-bred people who have not words enough to say what they want to4 ,and consequently when you use slang1 if people do not know that you are well-bred boys and girls1 they think that you are coarse and vulgar1 and they will have nothing to do with you4 ,another poison-label that boys sometimes stick on is swearing4 ,and of course that is always bad-mannered4 ,another is smoking4 ,another is bad company4 ,i knew a boy who was really good at heart1 but who persisted in going with bad boys1 and no business man in town would take him into his business because of that terrible label4 ,girls sometimes wear such poison-labels as forwardness2 that is1 they are always making themselves heard and seen4 ,others are proud4 ,others chew gum4 ,i have not time to mention all of these different labels4 ,you can think of them for yourselves4 ,what ,i want to say is that it is too bad for such good1 useful1 well-intentioned and wholesome boys and girls to put on labels which lead people to think less of them than they should think4 ,for by these things they spoil their chances of getting into the company of well-bred people4 ,,lies ,,that ,,walk ,we usually think of a lie as a thing that is spoken4 ,but there are other kinds of lies4 ,some girls that ,i once knew went to an office in ,new ,york and bought some labels with the pictures and names of hotels in ,europe printed on them4 ,they pasted these on their suit-cases4 ,now1 as you probably know1 when people go to ,europe some of the hotels paste labels on your suit-cases and trunks when they take your baggage to the station4 ,some people come home with their baggage quite covered over with these slips of paper1 and one can easily see by these labels what a long distance the owners of the luggage have traveled4 ,these girls who bought those labels in ,new ,york1 but had never been to ,europe1 were trying to make people believe that they1 too1 had traveled in foreign countries4 ,of course you know what that sort of deception means3 it is telling a lie without speaking it4 ,so you see these lies went with the suit-cases4 ,and wherever those girls carried their bags1 the lies walked along with them1 and said to everyone who looked at them1 ,our owners have been to ,europe4 ,of course1 no self-respecting boy or girl would do such a thing4 ,but you must also be careful not to act falsehoods by pretending things in school1 or acting at home as if you don't know about things when you do4 ,don't try to fool yourselves1 then you will not try to fool other people4 ,,wellington ,,and ,,the ,,soldier ,no boy likes to be called a coward1 and some boys do things that are dangerous for fear that their friends will think they have no courage4 ,sometimes it is more cowardly to do a dangerous thing like that than not to do it4 ,do not think that you are a coward because you are afraid of dangerous things4 ,some of the bravest men the world ever saw have been afraid1 but in spite of their fear they went firmly on4 ,a story is told of ,lord ,wellington1 a great ,english general1 who saw a young man in his army who was white with fear just before a battle1 and yet did not run away4 ,lord ,wellington said3 ,there is a brave man4 ,he knows the danger1 and yet he faces it4 ,another story is told of a soldier who was making fun of a second who was badly frightened just before battle4 ,the frightened soldier said to the other one3 ,yes1 ,i am afraid4 ,and if you were half as much afraid as ,i am1 you would run away4 ,the lesson ,i want to draw is this1 that it is not cowardly to be afraid of things which have danger in them4 ,it is cowardly to run away if you ought to face them4 ,and if you ought not to face them it is cowardly to go headlong into them1 just because of some other boy's foolish dare4 ,i remember a playmate who used to bite the heads off the fish he caught1 just because another boy dared him to4 ,it used to make him terribly sick1 but he was too much of a coward not to do it4 ,some boys take up smoking and drinking and swearing for the same reason4 ,any boy who does that sort of thing is a coward4 ,,abraham',s ,,guest ,you have all heard of ,abraham1 who went out from his home in ,ur of the ,chaldees to find ,god4 ,and you remember how he dwelt in tents1 and had hundreds of cattle4 ,and you know how good he was to his nephew1 ,lot4 ,there is a story told about ,abraham which you will not find in the ,bible4 ,abraham received into his tent one day an aged traveler4 ,after he had invited the traveler to dine with him at his sunset meal1 ,abraham went out to offer up his evening sacrifice to ,god4 ,but the traveler would not join him in prayer and thanksgiving4 ,abraham was angry because of the old man's lack of religion1 and drove him from his tent4 ,later in the evening the angel of the ,lord appeared to ,abraham and asked him why he had driven out the old man4 ,abraham replied3 ,lord1 he refused to acknowledge ,thee6 ,the ,lord replied3 ,what6 ,i have borne with this old man for eighty years1 and you could not bear with him for two days6 ,after that1 so the story goes1 ,abraham helped everyone who came along1 no matter what his religious belief might be4 ,that is a good story for boys and girls to remember when they feel that they cannot forgive someone who has done them a wrong4 ,what would become of you if ,god never forgave you when you did wrong8 ,it is this spirit of forgiveness that ,christ means to teach us when ,he says in the ,lord's ,prayer1 ,forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors4 ,if1 then1 you say that prayer and refuse to forgive anyone who has done you a wrong1 you mean that you want to have ,god act just as unforgiving with you as you are with your enemies4 ,that would be terrible1--to ask ,god not to forgive you4 ,none of us would dare pray like that4 ,you remember ,peter came to ,christ once and asked how often we were to forgive people4 ,peter thought seven times was enough4 ,but ,christ said1 ,no1 you must forgive until seventy times seven4 ,that would be four hundred and ninety times4 ,christ did not mean exactly that many times4 ,but ,he meant more times than you can think4 ,that is1 if you are a follower of ,christ you are to forgive a person as often as he is sorry for having done you a wrong1 and comes to you and asks your forgiveness4 ,,about ,,generosity ,when we speak of a person as being generous we usually think of someone who gives his money1 or whatever belongs to him1 freely to others4 ,but did you ever think that people can be generous with their thoughts1 too8 ,let me show you what ,i mean by that4 ,there were once two boys who went to visit at a farm where they kept ,shetland ponies1 and of course both boys wanted to ride them4 ,so one day they persuaded the man in charge of the ponies to put the saddle on a handsome black one and lead him out into the yard for them to mount4 ,but when it came to actually getting on the pony's back1 the younger boy was afraid4 ,although the older boy urged him1 he would not take a ride4 ,finally the other boy mounted and rode gaily off1 and came back beaming with delight4 ,but instead of being proud1 and thinking the other boy cowardly1 he went over to the younger lad and said3 ,now you get on4 ,i know you can ride him4 ,and when at last the other did ride off1 the older boy's eyes danced with delight1 and he clapped his hands to encourage the younger boy4 ,that is one of the best forms of generosity4 ,another illustration of it is when you are on a baseball or football team1 or in a contest of any sort1 to be able to say when you are honestly beaten that you were beaten by a better team4 ,when you can say that1 it takes half the sting out of defeat and makes those who win admire you more than ever4 ,don't be stingy with your thoughts about people4 ,always think the best about others1 and believe the best1 and you will grow to be open-hearted1 friendly1 lovable and big4 ,,sun ,,and ,,wind ,once upon a time1 according to an old fable1 the sun and the northwind had a contest to see which could take a man's coat off the more quickly4 ,the northwind tried first4 ,it gathered together all its forces in its own corner of the earth1 and then rushed forth upon this man who was walking along a country-road4 ,the wind blew and blew1 and it seemed as if the traveller's coat would be blown from his back or torn to tatters4 ,but the harder the northwind blew the tighter the man drew his coat about him1 and the wind could not get it off his back4 ,after it had spent all its force it gave up in despair4 ,then the sun had its turn4 ,it came out without noise or violence like the northwind4 ,it did not whistle in the treetops nor bluster through the bushes4 ,it did not buffet nor struggle with the man4 ,it just went on pouring forth its heat4 ,and it seemed as if it could never win1 any more than the northwind4 ,but soon the traveller took out his handkerchief and wiped the perspiration from his face4 ,then1 before long1 he took off his hat4 ,soon he unbuttoned his coat1 and finally he took it off of his own accord4 ,the sun had won the contest against the northwind6 ,now1 a fable is meant to teach a lesson4 ,the lesson of this fable is that gentleness wins where only strength and rudeness fail4 ,if some one has done you a wrong1 the way to deal with him is not to try to get even with him1 as we say4 ,nor is the best way to get angry with him and scold him4 ,the ,bible tells us that the way to overcome your enemy is to do good for evil1 for it says by so doing you will heap coals of fire upon his head4 ,usually it is the weak people who bluster like the northwind1 and storm and brag4 ,strong people are usually quiet4 ,there is an old saying that if you are right you can afford to keep your temper1 and if you are wrong you cannot afford to lose it4 ,be gentle4 ,you will win more that way than by getting angry4 ,,the ,,boy ,,and ,,the ,,turtle ,theodore ,parker was one of the greatest preachers ,america ever had1 and this story is told of him as a boy4 ,one day1 as he was going across the fields1 he came to a pond where he saw a small turtle sunning itself upon a stone which rose out of the water4 ,the boy picked up a stick1 and was about to strike the turtle1 when a voice within him said1 ,stop6 ,his arm paused in midair and1 startled1 he ran home to ask his mother what the voice meant4 ,tears came into his mother's eyes as she took the boy in her arms and told him that it was his conscience which had cried ,stop6 ,then she told him that his conscience was the voice of ,god1 and that his moral safety depended upon his heeding that inner voice4 ,the same thing is true of all boys and girls4 ,if you obey that inner voice in questions of right and wrong1 it will speak to you clearly4 ,but if you neglect it1 it will grow silent1 and you will be left in darkness and in doubt as to what is right and wrong4 ,some people call this voice the inner light1 and that is a very good name for it4 ,every time you walk by the light you put fresh oil in the lamp1 and the light grows stronger and the way clearer4 ,whenever that inner voice speaks to you and tells you that a thing is wrong1 don't argue with the voice and give reasons for doing the thing that is wrong4 ,obey the voice at once1 as ,parker did1 and it will save you endless trouble4 ,,the ,,boy ,,and ,,the ,,nickel ,a man once found a boy crying on the street1 and asked the little chap what he was crying about4 ,the child told him he had just lost a nickel4 ,the stranger gave him another1 and then the boy began to cry again4 ,this greatly astonished the man1 and he asked him why he was crying again4 ,the little chap said1 ,because1 if ,i hadn't lost that other nickel1 ,i'd have two now4 ,that was1 of course1 a very foolish way to look at it1 but that is the way a great many people look at things4 ,this is what is called covetousness4 ,covetous people always want something they have not1 and so they are usually unhappy4 ,the way to be happy is to think of the things you have1 and not of the things you have not4 ,a man was once told that ,csar was going to cause him great unhappiness1 and he replied that if ,csar could blot out the sun with a blanket he might make him unhappy4 ,but if he had the sun to shine upon him1 he would still be happy4 ,we all have the sun to shine upon us1 and other things a-plenty to be happy over1 if we will just count them up4 ,let us not be like the little boy crying about the nickel he did not have4 ,,the ,,three ,,fates ,boys and girls in ancient ,greece believed that there were three fates1 in the form of three women seated above the clouds1 who spun the thread of everyone's life1 and cut it off with shears when death came4 ,we no longer believe in such things1 but we still speak of fate4 ,boys and girls sometimes say that they are fated to fail in examinations1 and so think they cannot help failing4 ,but that is no more true than the belief about the three women which the ,grecian boys and girls held4 ,as a matter of fact1 nothing outside of us makes evil things happen to us4 ,we make our own fates4 ,or shall ,i say1 we are our own fates8 ,someone has said1 ,our fates lie asleep along the roadside until we waken them4 ,that is very true1 as ,i think ,i can show you by a story4 ,not long ago ,i was riding on a train up through ,vermont4 ,a boy came into the car selling papers1 books1 candy1 fruit1 and other things4 ,there was a boy opposite me in the smoking-car who wanted to appear very smart and manly4 ,he was smoking a cigar and looking very much traveled4 ,the trainboy offered him a book which had a bad title and worse pictures in it4 ,but in front of this young chap sat two bright-faced1 innocent-looking boys who did not pretend to be anything but what they were4 ,the trainboy offered them salted peanuts4 ,in front of those boys sat a fine1 clean-looking1 well-bred man4 ,the trainboy offered him a good1 wholesome book4 ,now1 three fates were in that car in the form of that trainboy1 and each person invited his own kind of fate by what he was in himself4 ,that is true all through life4 ,be true1 and you attract truth4 ,be evil1 and you attract evil4 ,your fate is what you are4 ,,the ,,inch-,,worm ,,and ,,the ,,mountain ,out in the state of ,california there is a great valley known as the ,yosemite ,valley1 and here once lived a tribe of ,indians who tried to explain how the wonderful streams and trees and rocks came to be4 ,the story of one of the highest peaks1 ,el ,capitan1 is very interesting4 ,one day some ,indian boys went fishing in a beautiful lake in the ,yosemite1 and after they had grown tired they lay down in the sun upon a rock beside the lake4 ,they soon fell fast asleep4 ,how long they slept they did not know1 but when they awoke they found that during their sleep the rock on which they lay had been stood on end1 so that they were now nearly a mile high in the air and had no means of getting down4 ,they were in a bad plight4 ,but the animals in the valley which were friendly to mountaineers saw their misfortune and held a conference as to how to help the boys get down4 ,they decided that the only thing to do was to try to climb up the face of the cliff4 ,but the rock1 was too steep1 and so they tried to jump up4 ,first the raccoon tried it1 then the bear1 then the squirrel1 then the fox1 and finally the mountain-goat4 ,it was all to no avail1 however1 and they gave up in discouragement1 and were about to leave the boys to perish1 when the inch-worm came along and offered her services4 ,the animals laughed her to scorn4 ,what could she do1 with her snail-pace1 when they all1 who were so fleet of foot1 had to give it up6 ,but she would not be laughed out of her purpose1 and she began to climb up the cliff4 ,slowly1 inch by inch1 she crawled up1 so slowly that it seemed as if she would take a thousand years to get there4 ,but as she passed crag after crag the animals below ceased making fun of her and began to shout encouragement4 ,at last she reached the top4 ,and then the ,great ,spirit turned her into a huge butterfly so strong that she flew down1 with the boys on her back1 to safety4 ,there is a verse in the ,old ,testament which says that the race is not always to the swift1 which means that it is not always the strongest who win4 ,it is the one who keeps at it4 ,many a bright boy fails in school because the lessons come so easily he does not work4 ,many a dull boy wins because he sticks to it and plods away4 ,if you are tempted to trust too much to your brightness1 remember the animals who made fun of the inch-worm4 ,if you are dull1 remember the inch-worm1 take courage1 and plod away4 ,you will get there sometime4 ,,the ,,french ,,drummer-,,boy ,i want to tell you to-day of one of the bravest deeds ever done by a boy4 ,it happened this way4 ,back in the year #agic1 when the ,french people were having trouble with their king and queen1 and finally put them to death1 the rulers called in soldiers from other nations to help them against their own people4 ,the foreign soldiers met the ,french troops before a town called ,maubeuge1 and there a fierce battle was fought4 ,the fiercest part of the fighting was carried on against ,hungarian ,grenadiers1 who held the market-place of the town4 ,during this charge a drummer-boy in the ,french army saw that his countrymen were having a hard time of it1 so he slipped around back of these ,hungarian soldiers to the other side of the market-place1 right in the thick of the enemy1 and there drummed the charge1 in order to make his comrades think that some of the ,french soldiers had already pushed through the enemy's ranks1 and so encourage the others to push on4 ,many years after1 in digging up the ground about the market-place1 the little bones of that drummer-boy were found buried alongside the bones of the tall ,hungarian men amongst whom he had fallen4 ,the ,french people have put up a statue to his memory in the town of ,avesnes1 and he is shown still beating the charge on his drum1 and looking out toward the frontier whence the enemy of his people came4 ,a ,,king ,,in ,,the ,,stuff ,in the early days of the history of the children of ,israel the people were ruled by judges1 and it was not until they saw the nations round about them under the leadership of kings that they desired a king of their own4 ,in spite of the warnings of the old prophet ,samuel1 they demanded a king1 and ,samuel chose a young man1 afterwards ,king ,saul1 to be their ruler4 ,but when the people came together to make ,saul ,king they could not find him4 ,they searched a long while1 and finally ,god told them that ,saul had hidden himself amongst the baggage4 ,there they looked1 and sure enough1 as the old story says1 there was a king hid in the stuff4 ,that was many hundreds of years ago1 and kings are no longer made in that way4 ,but the story has a meaning still for every boy4 ,there is still a king hid in the stuff that goes to make up every boy4 ,a great many things about a boy in which he hides his kingship seem no better than the worthless stuff in which ,saul hid4 ,there are mistakes1 outbursts of temper1 laziness1 selfishness1 impatience1 deceit1 and cruelty4 ,but hidden beneath all that1 ,god would have you remember that there is still a king hid in the stuff4 ,a story is told of the son of ,louis ,,xvi of ,france1 whose father and mother were put to death by the people4 ,he was thus left an orphan1 and was sent to live with a wicked man and woman who tried to teach him all manner of wrongdoing4 ,but when they tried to persuade him to do wrong1 he would refuse1 and say that he was a king's son1 and would some day be king himself1 therefore he could not stoop so low4 ,i wish every boy1 when he is tempted to do some unmanly thing1 would remember his kingship1 too4 ,you are not the son of an earthly king1 but you are each the son of a ,heavenly ,king1 and you1 too1 have the making of a king in you4 ,you are too great to do mean things4 ,there is an old hymn which runs like this3 ,my ,father is rich in houses and lands1 ,he holdeth the wealth of the world in ,his hands2 ,of rubies and diamonds1 of silver and gold ,he has gone to prepare us a mansion untold4 ,i'm the child of a ,king1 the child of a ,king1 ,with ,jesus my ,saviour1 ,i'm the child of a ,king4 ,and when you would do a mean thing1 ask yourself if that is worthy of your kingship4 ,remember also that only those who live ,kingly lives are worthy to enter the ,kingdom of ,heaven4 ,,bread ,,and ,,wine ,this is ,communion ,sunday1 when the ,church celebrates what is known as the ,sacrament of the ,lord's ,supper4 ,you remember that on the night before ,christ was crucified ,he gathered ,his twelve disciples together that ,he might have a quiet meal and talk with them4 ,and it is that ,last ,supper1 as it is known1 which we call to mind when we observe ,communion ,sunday4 ,the first ,christians did not have communion on ,sunday4 ,they used to have a common meal together on weekdays1 and at a neighbour's house4 ,at these meals they would recall the sayings of ,jesus and ,his loving deeds4 ,but ,christ not only had the ,last ,supper with ,his disciples1 and taught them to remember ,him in the breaking of the bread3 ,he also gave them the lesson about the bread and the wine by which to remember ,him4 ,you know how bread is made4 ,grains of wheat are put in the ground by the farmer1 and these grains give up their lives in order that other grains may grow on the stalk at harvest-time4 ,then these grains are gathered in1 and finally ground into flour4 ,christ also gave up ,his life just as those first grains of wheat in the ground4 ,and ,he meant to tell us by the bread at communion that if we are to help other people we must be willing to give up our own selfish desires for their sake4 ,by the wine at communion ,christ meant to teach us that just as the branch of a grapevine must be attached to the stalk before there can be grapes1 so you and ,i must keep close to ,christ in order to be able to live the life of unselfishness which shows that we are ,his followers4 ,he says3 ,i am the vine1 ye are the branches4 ,without me ye can do nothing4 ,after ,christ's death1 whenever the disciples took their meal together1 they would think of ,christ1 and they would forgive one another and become more gentle and loving4 ,whenever we see the communion-table prepared1 we also must think of ,christ1 forgive those who have wronged us1 and try still harder to be unselfish and kind4 ,,the ,,first ,,christmas ,,carol ,in ,england on ,christmas eve boys and girls and men and women go about the streets singing ,christmas carols1 or songs1 at the doors of people's houses1 and the people for whom they sing give them tokens of their good-will4 ,the first verse of one of the oldest and best ,christmas carols is as follows3 ,god rest you merry1 gentlemen2 ,let nothing you dismay1 ,for ,christ was born of ,mary ,upon a ,christmas ,day4 ,that is a very beautiful carol1 but there is one still more beautiful4 ,it is the one the angels sang the night that ,christ was born3 ,glory to ,god in the highest1 ,peace on earth to men of good-will4 ,this means that people who have good-will in their hearts toward other people will have peace on earth4 ,and how very true that is6 ,people generally act toward us the same way in which we act toward them4 ,if we are cross1 others are cross2 but if we are warmhearted and loving1 then people are warmhearted toward us4 ,it is just like seeing your face in a looking-glass4 ,if you frown1 the face in the mirror will frown4 ,if your face is smiling1 the one in the mirror will be smiling4 ,that is another way of saying that you get what you give4 ,christ came into the world to teach us how to have good-will to men1 and from our good-will to get happiness4 ,any boy or girl who faithfully tries to be like ,christ1 and to do as he believes ,jesus would do if ,he were in his place1 will grow to have this good-will in his heart4 ,then some day he will sing as the angels did1 ,glory to ,god in the highest1 for he will know ,god's peace4 ,christ said1 ,blessed are the peace-makers4 ,here is a verse for you to take as a motto3 ,where are you going8 ,never mind4 ,just follow the road that says1 ',be kind1' ,and do the duty that nearest you lies1 ,for that is the road to ,paradise4 ,a ,,hint ,,from ,a ,,caribou ,this is an animal-story4 ,it is about a caribou4 ,a caribou is a kind of reindeer1 and lives in ,canada4 ,one day a man was out in a stumpy pasture-field beside a woods in ,canada1 and he saw a mother caribou and her little calf feeding quietly down in a valley nearby4 ,he was on a little hill some distance away1 but the wind was blowing in the direction of the caribou4 ,presently the mother caribou raised her head1 sniffed the air1 and looked in the direction where the man was hidden behind a stump4 ,she had caught the scent of a human being4 ,that meant danger to her calf4 ,soon the mother caribou1 leaving her calf in the valley1 started in the direction of the man4 ,he slipped from his hiding-place to another stump4 ,on came the caribou till she reached the very stump behind which the man had first hidden4 ,there she smelled the ground1 and then a strange thing happened4 ,she called her calf to her1 had it smell the ground1 too1 so as to get the scent of the man4 ,when that was done1 she got behind that little caribou and butted it down the valley as fast as it could go4 ,why did she do that8 ,it was to teach her calf that whenever it got that scent on the air1 there was danger1 and it must get away as quickly as possible4 ,ever after that1 even before the calf knew that this scent belonged to a man1 or had seen a man1 it would run away from it4 ,your parents are constantly doing for you what that mother caribou did for her little one4 ,when they tell you that such and such a thing is wrong1 and you must not do it2 when again they tell you there is danger in going to a certain place1 or in chumming with a particular boy or girl1 they are again doing the same thing for you4 ,and when they punish you1 as that mother caribou did her calf1 it is because they know the danger far better than you1 and they know that your safety depends upon keeping away from such things4 ,then1 bye and bye1 perhaps1 as you grow older1 you will begin to see for yourself what the danger meant1 just as the little caribou might some day see a hunter for itself4 ,and then you will no longer think your parents cruel or strict2 you will be thankful that they were so wise and kind4 ,,the ,,repentance ,,of ,,samuel ,,johnson ,when you begin to study ,english literature you will hear a great deal about ,samuel ,johnson1 who wrote one of the first ,english dictionaries1 and was a great scholar4 ,johnson's father was a bookseller1 who used to have a little shop in the market-place1 where he sold books on market-days4 ,one day1 when ,johnson was a boy1 his father took sick and asked ,samuel to go to the market-place and sell books for him4 ,johnson was ashamed of such work1 and refused to go4 ,but many years afterward1 when he had become an old man and was back on a visit to his native village1 he was missed from breakfast one morning by the friends with whom he was staying4 ,on his return at supper-time he told his friends how he had spent the day4 ,it was fifty years ago that day when he had refused to help his father4 ,he says3 ,to do away with the sin of this disobedience1 ,i this day went in a post-chaise to ,uttoxeter1 and going into the market at the time of high business1 uncovered my head and stood with it bare an hour before the stall which my father had formerly used1 exposed to the sneers of standers-by and the inclemency of the weather2 a penance by which ,i trust ,i have propitiated ,heaven for this only instance1 ,i believe1 of contumacy to my father4 ,that is a story worth remembering when you are ashamed of doing something which your parents have asked you to do1 perhaps to carry a parcel on the street or to mow the lawn4 ,you will see sometime1 ,i hope1 that all honest work1 if it is well done1 is a thing to be proud of1 instead of to be ashamed of4 ,but it may be too late then4 ,your parents may have died1 and you1 like ,johnson1 will come back with deep sorrow to think how you had disobeyed and forsaken them when they needed you4 ,the way to save yourselves such heartache is to be obedient to your parents as long as they live4 ,,easter ,once upon a time a ,persian king was marching westward with a great army to fight against ,greece4 ,in the evening1 after the army had encamped for the night1 someone found the king looking over the host of people spread out before him1 and he was in tears4 ,when he was asked the cause of his sadness1 he replied that he had been thinking that one hundred years from that time not one of all these men in his army would be alive4 ,that was long before ,christ lived1 and had risen from the dead on ,easter morning4 ,these people had no ,easter4 ,they did not believe in the sort of everlasting life in which we believe4 ,and even long after the resurrection of ,christ there were many people in ,greece and ,rome who had not heard the wonderful news4 ,here is a letter that someone wrote over a hundred years after that first ,easter to a mother whose son had just died3 ,i was much grieved1 and shed as many tears over your son as ,i did over my own1 and ,i did everything that was fitting1 as so did my whole family4444 ,but still there is nothing one can do in the face of such trouble4 ,so ,i leave you to comfort yourselves4 ,good-bye4 ,if these people had known about our ,easter they would not have felt so hopeless and sad4 ,for since ,christ has risen from the dead1 we know that all who love ,him and try to be like ,him shall also rise from the dead1 and be with ,him in a life beyond the grave4 ,he said to ,his disciples before ,he was crucified3 ,in my ,father's house are many mansions2 if it were not so ,i would have told you2 for ,i go to prepare a place for you4 ,and if ,i go and prepare a place for you ,i will come again and receive you unto myself2 that where ,i am1 there ye may be also4 ,when we know this1 then to die is not so terrible as it was to the ,persians and ,greeks4 ,it is like going to sleep in our home1 and waking up in a place much more beautiful than we had ever dreamed of1 and being with ,christ1 the ,friend of little children1 forever4 ,but we must know ,christ in this life if we are to enjoy ,his friendship in the next4 ,,the ,,whispering ,,gallery ,if you ever go to ,london1 one of the many buildings which will be pointed out to you will be ,saint ,paul's ,cathedral1 which is capped by a wonderful dome4 ,and if you ask the guide1 he will show you in that dome a strange room known as the ,whispering ,gallery4 ,in this gallery your lowest whisper can be heard on the other side of the room1 a great distance away4 ,it would be hard to tell secrets in a room like that4 ,but there is a still more wonderful whispering gallery than that4 ,it is the one which each one of us carries about in his own soul4 ,in that gallery even things we think1 whether we say them or not1 are heard by ,god1 our ,creator4 ,no thought escapes ,him4 ,in ,him we live1 and move1 and have our being4 ,if we take the wings of the morning1 and fly to the uttermost parts of the earth1 even there ,god is still4 ,this would be a very terrible thing to realize if all our thoughts were evil thoughts1 unkind and unlovely4 ,for then we should be like the man who1 when he was young1 ill-treated his old father and mother4 ,when he grew up1 this young man became very wealthy1 and he used to carry candy in his pocket as he walked in the parks to give to the children1 because he wanted their love4 ,but the children would take his candy1 then scamper away like frightened squirrels1 because something inside seemed to tell them that the man was not really kind at heart4 ,older people felt the same way about him1 and a chill came over them when they were with him4 ,so they avoided him4 ,it would be unbearable to think that only our evil thoughts were open to ,god in that way4 ,but while ,god knows all the wickedness in our hearts1 and we cannot hide anything from ,him1 ,god also knows the good thoughts that are whispered in the gallery of our soul4 ,and when we wish ever so greatly that we could do something to help somebody1 but cannot do it2 or when we would like to be good1 but are tripped up by some temptation1 ,god knows then how hard we try1 and gives us credit for our effort1 even though we fail to do what we wanted to4 ,let us remember the ,whispering ,gallery of the soul1 then1 and when we think evil thoughts1 even though we never tell them to our nearest friend1 let us be sure ,god knows them4 ,and when we try hard to be good and to do good1 but fail1 let us also remember that ,god sees it1 even though none else knows4 ,our prayer each morning ought to be like the psalmist's3 ,let the words of my mouth1 and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in ,thy sight1 ,o ,lord1 my strength and my redeemer4 ,,the ,,he-,,said ,,girl ,sometimes1 when ,i am walking along the street1 ,i catch snatches of conversation as ,i pass by a group of little girls4 ,and often ,i hear the phrase ,he said this1 or ,he said that4 ,there are girls who do not seem to talk about much else but what this boy or that boy has said1 and these girls ,i call he-said girls4 ,now1 of course it is all right for girls to think about the boys4 ,we could not stop that if we would1 and we would not stop it if we could4 ,the danger comes when a girl thinks of little else4 ,the girl who begins by devoting all her thought to boys is apt to end by being a very unattractive and unpopular sort of woman4 ,every girl ought to get along well with the girls of her own age as well as with the boys4 ,there is something wrong with the girl who cannot get along with her girl friends4 ,and so ,i say to you that if you do not want to be thoroughly unhappy as a woman1 try to win the friendship of girls as well as boys4 ,a good plan for the he-said girl is to take her father as her ideal1 and hero and lover4 ,then1 as she grows to womanhood1 she will not be satisfied with any man who is not in some measure as good as her father4 ,in the meanwhile beware of being a he-said girl4 ,,on ,,deck ,when ,i was a boy ,i belonged to a baseball team in the village where ,i lived1 and when we played games with a team from another village we had a scorer who not only kept tally of the runs1 but also told us who was to be the next at the bat4 ,he would say1 ,so-and-so is at the bat1 ,so-and-so is on deck4 ,and when he told a boy he was on deck1 that boy knew he was to be the next one at the bat4 ,boys and girls are always on deck1 whether they are playing ball or not1 for a boy or girl never knows when he is going to be called upon to play some part in the game called ,life4 ,and the strange thing about it is1 there is no scorer who tells you that you are on deck4 ,so you never get any warning1 and you may be on deck and not know it1 and so miss your chance4 ,samuel1 for instance1 was a boy who used to close the curtains and put out the candles at night in the temple away back hundreds of years before ,christ was born4 ,one evening he had put out the lights and closed the curtains1 just the same as he had a hundred times before1 and then lay down to sleep4 ,he little thought that this particular day he was on deck1 and was to be called into the game by ,god4 ,but that night ,god called him1 and sent him on a very important errand that was to change his whole life and the history of his people4 ,and things like that are happening in ,america to-day4 ,i read a story the other day of a young student who was overtaken by a rainstorm1 and borrowed an umbrella of a lawyer4 ,he returned it a few days later with a note of thanks4 ,not long afterward he received a letter from the lawyer offering him a position in his office on account of his good handwriting4 ,the student took the position1 kept on with his studies in college1 and after he graduated from college went right along in that office till he became a man of influence4 ,he didn't know what it meant when he wrote that note4 ,he was on deck4 ,the lesson that ,i want to draw is this3 ,that you must be on the lookout and do well the things that come to you each day1 for who knows but you may be on deck that very day1 and be called to play some important part8 ,for only those are called who are on deck2 that is1 ready to play4 ,the boy or girl who does not do his work well day by day may miss his chance of being called to take some larger place in life when the times comes4 ,take this motto from the ,old ,testament3 ,whatsoever thy hand findeth to do1 do it with thy might4 ,,the ,,terror ,,by ,,night ,in some parts of ,canada1 where the country is still thinly settled by people1 wild animals are quite numerous4 ,in one of these communities there once lived a boy who was in the village late one night4 ,he had been at the village-store1 and had heard the men talking about a wildcat that had been seen in that neighbourhood a short time before4 ,the boy was not a coward1 but when he started for his home1 three miles away1 in the country1 he was nervous4 ,nothing happened1 however1 until he was climbing over a set of bars at the end of a lane leading through a piece of woods near his home4 ,then he heard the bushes moving and twigs crackling under the feet of some animal the other side of the lane-fence4 ,he thought of the wildcat4 ,he jumped to the ground1 picked up a heavy stick he had seen under a tree on his way through that day and listened4 ,nearer and nearer came the rustling of the bushes1 and every little while he could hear an animal sniff the air4 ,finally it came to the fence1 clambered up opposite him4 ,the boy raised his club and waited1 and when the animal jumped down beside him1 its eyes shining in the darkness1 he struck with all his might4 ,off the beast went into the darkness4 ,all was silence again1 and the boy stood listening and trembling4 ,then from the top of a nearby hill he heard a dog howl with pain4 ,he found1 next morning1 that it was only a neighbour's dog that had frightened him so4 ,that boy is not the only one who has seen things mistakenly1 just because he was afraid4 ,if you are dreading something1 you will think that everything that happens brings the thing you dread4 ,usually nothing happens at all4 ,the trouble was only in the person's mind1 just as that wildcat was in the boy's mind1 and so every noise he could not explain was a wildcat4 ,i am sure ,david must have known something about that fear when1 as a boy1 he watched his sheep out on the lonely hills at night4 ,but ,david learned that there was ,one who was able to protect him by night as well as by day4 ,it was ,god4 ,and so he wrote of ,god3 ,he that keepeth thee will not slumber4 ,god is thy keeper4 ,god is thy shade upon thy right hand4 ,thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night1 nor for the arrow that flieth by day2 for the pestilence that walketh in darkness4444 ,it shall not come nigh thee4 ,let us remember that no real harm can come to us unless it comes from within ourselves4 ,god is our protector4 ,in ,his love we can trust by day1 and in ,his care we can lay us down to sleep at night without a fear4 ,,the ,,bramble-,,bush ,,king ,there is a story in the ,old ,testament which says that once upon a time the trees gathered together to choose a king to rule over them4 ,first they invited the olive-tree2 but the olive-tree said it was too busy bearing fruit4 ,then they asked the fig-tree to be king2 but the fig-tree had its work to do1 and also declined4 ,next they waited upon the vine with an invitation2 but1 like the others1 it did not wish to be their king4 ,finally the trees asked the bramble to accept the position1 and the bramble gladly agreed4 ,the first order it gave was for all the trees to take shelter under its branches or be burned with fire4 ,that sounds just like a prickly1 thorny1 little bramble1 does it not8 ,that is usually the way of people who like to lord it over other people when they have no ability for it4 ,there are some who want to do so when they are at a party4 ,they want to be the hitching-post to which all the people are tied when they talk4 ,if the bramble takes the form of a boy1 he wants to be captain of his team1 or he will not play4 ,if it happens to be a girl1 she insists upon everybody playing the game she wants1 or she will go home in a sulk4 ,these people cannot agree long with anybody4 ,they are quarrelsome and peevish4 ,some boys and girls are like horses3 they make good single-drivers1 but they will not work with anyone else4 ,some horses go well enough alone1 but when you hitch them with another horse they crowd1 or bite1 or kick it4 ,they cannot go double1 as we say4 ,that is the bramble-nature showing out in a horse4 ,this is a bad trait1 whether you find it in a horse1 a man or woman1 a boy or girl4 ,christ says3 ,you know the rulers of the ,gentiles lord it over them4 ,not so shall it be among you2 but whosoever would become great among you shall be your minister2 and whosoever would be first among you shall be your servant4 ,jesus also said1 ,i am meek and lowly in heart4 ,so must all ,his followers be4 ,if you are getting any of the bramble-nature1 and want to lord it over everybody1 you had better give it up4 ,some of the unhappiest people in the world are bramble-bush kings4 ,,where ,,is ,,heaven8 ,our great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers used to talk much about where heaven was4 ,and some thought it was up above the clouds1 and others thought it would be here on earth1 after all the wickedness and selfishness were done away4 ,every one1 however1 used to think that the ,new ,jerusalem1 with its pearly gates and golden streets1 was a real place like the cities of to-day4 ,but we think of heaven more as the feeling in our hearts when we are happy from being with our friends1 or when we have done right and unselfish things4 ,we know what it is1 then1 to have heaven on earth4 ,and when we have heaven on earth1 we know pretty nearly what the real heaven is like4 ,let me show you what ,i mean4 ,not long ago a speaker in a rescue mission asked the children if they could tell him where heaven was4 ,immediately a boy from the poorest section of the city sprang up1 raised his hand and cried shrilly3 ,i know2 ,i know4 ,well1 my boy1 where is heaven8 the astonished leader asked4 ,back in our street since mother got acquainted with ,jesus1 was the answer4 ,that boy was on the right track4 ,whenever ,christ comes into the heart there comes with ,him love and thoughtfulness of others4 ,and when we do kind things for others1 we find happiness for ourselves1 and that is heaven4 ,christ says1 ,if any man hear my voice and open the door1 ,i will come in to him and sup with him and he with me4 ,that means1 when we do things that we believe ,christ would like to have us do1 then ,he comes in to sup with us4 ,and when we feel ,christ as our ,companion1 then it is heaven4 ,we may go to a beautiful place called heaven when we die1 but it will be ,christ who will make the place full of joy and gladness4 ,and if we are to see ,him in that land and enjoy that heaven1 we must first make a heaven here on earth for ourselves and others by trying to please ,him and to be like ,him every day4 ,,the ,,christian ,,army ,saint ,paul1 in writing to the ,christians of his day1 urges them to be good soldiers of the ,lord ,jesus ,christ4 ,if every ,christian is a soldier1 then the ,church ought to be called the ,christian ,army4 ,and this makes plainer to us what it means to join the ,church4 ,armies1 as you know1 are divided into regiments1 and regiments into companies4 ,every soldier in the army belongs to a certain company4 ,if a man said that he wanted to belong to the ,united ,states ,army1 but that he did not want to join any particular regiment or company1 but that he intended to be a soldier in general1 people would laugh at him4 ,he would be like a man who took his gun and went out all alone to fight against ,spain when we were at war with her4 ,or it would be as if a man in a city should say that he wanted to fight fire1 but instead of joining a fire company1 he would snatch up his pail and run alone to put out the fire every time there was an alarm4 ,now1 in the ,christian army there are also regiments and companies4 ,the different denominations1 like the ,presbyterians1 the ,methodists1 the ,baptists1 the ,congregationalists1 and so on1 are the regiments4 ,the ,churches like this and other ,churches are the companies in the army4 ,so1 when anyone says he wants to make war on wickedness and to bring in the reign of love and peace and good-will which ,christ started ,his ,church to fight for1 we ask him to join one of the companies of the ,christian army4 ,that is1 we ask him to join a ,church4 ,you may ask if one cannot be a ,christian outside of the ,church4 ,i answer1 ,yes1 he can4 ,but he is very much like the man with his pail running to put out the fire1 or the lone soldier4 ,he can do better work if he works with others4 ,furthermore1 ,christ said1 ,he that confesseth me before men1 him will ,i confess before my ,father which is in heaven1 and he that denieth me before men1 him will ,i deny before my ,father which is in heaven4 ,in joining the ,church you confess ,christ4 ,you may ask me too1 how old one should be before he can join the ,christian army1 known as the ,church of ,god4 ,i answer1 there is no set age4 ,some boys and girls are ready to join before others4 ,one little girl who was going to join the ,church was told by some of the members of her ,sunday-school class that she wasn't old enough4 ,she replied1 ,anyone who is old enough to know right from wrong is old enough to join the ,church4 ,if you are trying honestly day by day to be like ,christ and to do ,his will1 and you wish to be a better soldier of the cross1 then you are ready to join the ,church4 ,in the ,christian army there are old and young1 rich and poor1 wise and simple1 all under the one flag1--the banner of the ,cross2 all under the one ,captain1--even ,jesus ,christ4 ,and the best thing about our ,captain is1 ,he has never lost a battle yet1 and never will4 ,all those who enlist under ,his flag are sure to win1 and to hear ,god's ,well done4