are doing in our church, I thought. We are growing our girls and boys,
and we are keeping them close together, because they are such a help to
one another, and there is great inspiration in numbers.

Looking out of the train window at those trees of future forests, I
thought of the verse in Isaiah, "The mountains and the trees shall break
forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap
their hands." I can hear the mountains and the hills of the Adirondacks
singing because of the growing trees, and I hear the mountains and the
hills of earth singing because of the millions of growing girls and boys
who shall reforest the desolate places of earth.

MEMORY VERSE, _Psalm_ 92: 13

"Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in
the courts of our God."

MEMORY HYMN [677]

_"Saviour, like a shepherd lead us."_




KNIFE LESSONS


I have here a knife. It was given me by a friend, a token of his
affection and esteem, when I went aboard the steamer in Manila,
Philippine Islands, to return to the homeland. All these years since