in the candlestick! Stand up straight, girls and boys. Do not stoop. Do
not hump yourself over your school desk. Walk erect. It means so much
now, it will mean much more in later years. Some day, if you heed my
word, you will be grateful that the preacher once said to you so
emphatically that you could not forget, "John, Mary, stand up straight."

Fourth, the candle stands for Light. It is useless until the wick is
lighted. It burns for others. Your life is a light. Jesus wants all
Christians to think of themselves as lights in the world. "Let your
light shine." Be a lighted candle for the Lord.

MEMORY VERSE, _Proverbs_ 20: 27

"The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord."

MEMORY HYMN [84]

_"The spacious firmament on high."_




ALAS, THE MARKS


There is an old, old story about a father who had great difficulty in
making his boy obey. The boy did wrong in spite of all that the father
could say or do. One day the father said to the boy, "Here is the shed
door, now every time you do wrong I am going to pound a nail into the
door." One by one the nails were pounded into the door, until it was