To Myself

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only way to keep your blessings is to give them away. This is the lesson the flower teaches. It opens its little heart and sends forth the gentle dew of its soul to gladden the world. It live- by what it gives. Shut up the flower, so that its tinted lips can- not express in scent and color the thought God sent it to express, and it withers and dies. Shut up your souls so that they do not express in word, aspiration and act, the goodness, the truth and beauty that God intended they should express, and they will wither and die. But open your souls wide and let them send forth with- out measure, smiles for the glad, tears for the sad, sympathy for the sorrowing, inspiration' for the plodding, help for the needy, and worship for God, and they will unfold and develop until they become perfect even as God is perfect.

To Myself ( may I know the Lord as friend, )

And love of him my life attend; The sweetest joy be mine to know That I have lessened others' woe. May life eternal be my share, Under my Redeemer's care, With those I love — eternal joy, Eternal good, my time employ: Eternal increase of my life, I'ternal victoiy, 'mid the strife, Eternal truth to learn each day Eternal betterment of way. Geo. 1 1. Brim hall

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M. I. A. GAMES Oscar A Kirkliam teaching "The Poison Circle" to scoutmasters at Cowley, Wto ming, at the three Hay?' M. 1 A Educational Cmirse.