The first R stands for Read. By all means read. There is no excuse for
not reading, there is so much to read. Indeed I think that is the chief
difficulty, we have too much, at least too much of that which is not
good to read. Here's the bulky daily paper. When it is delivered there
is a rush for it. The children want the comic supplement. So do some of
the grownups.

"A little nonsense now and then,
Is relished by the wisest men."

That is true, and all right, but read something beside the comics.

The second R is Remember. You cannot remember all that you read. You can
remember much. You should train your mind to remember the best. John
Ruskin, one of the most gifted of Englishmen, said, "To this I owe all
that I have of power, to the fact that when I was a boy my mother made
me learn, every day, and remember, a verse of the Bible."

Now the A. The A stands for, can you guess? It means Action. Read,
remember what you read, and then apply it, put it into action. It is a
fine thing to read a story like Pollyanna and get all excited over it.
It is much finer to read Pollyanna and then put her spirit into action
in the daily life of the home.

MEMORY VERSE, _Psalm_ 119: 11

"Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might; not sin against
thee."