Beyond Today
Improvement Era, vol. 20, no. 2, December 1916, p. 130
Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations
— 130 IMPROVEMENT ERA districts where picking is better, thus the city is getting rid of this type of men. The casual observer of a month ago would be greatly impressed with the conditions in the city at present. Here and there drunken men staggered heavily laden with spirits. Especially when the city was filled with soldiers, drunkenness was very common, but now the men who are in uniform are not disgracing their uniforms by indulging in this habit. Toronto, Ont., Canada Beyond Today "If we could see beyond today As God can see; If all the clouds should roll away, The shadows flee, we would not fret, O'er present griefs Each sorrow we would soon forget, For many joys are waiting yet For you and me. "Ifwe could know beyond today, As God doth know, Why dearest treasures pass away And tears must flow, And why the darkness leads to light, Why dreary paths will soon grow bright! Some day life's wrongs will be made right; Faith tells us so. "If we could see, if we could know; Weoften say: But God in love a veil doth throw Across our way; We can not see what lies before, And so we cling to him the more; He leads us till this life is o'er; Trust and obey." Christian Work.