not received a reply. Wednesday you were almost in tears, though, had
you only stopped to think you would have known that it takes two days
for a letter to get to your grandmother, she lives so far away. Thursday
the answer came. "I am eager for vacation time to come so that you, my
dear grandchild, may be here with me."

I have here an unusual book. It is a book of letters. All the letters
were written by a big man, a father, to little children, his children.
The man who wrote them was Theodore Roosevelt. What fortunate children
were his! Not many fathers take time to write to their children as did
our great president. Oh, for more fathers like Roosevelt! Oh, for
appreciative children, who will not only gladly receive, but cheerfully
write, letters of love!

MEMORY VERSE, _I John_ 2: 12

"I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from
the beginning. I write unto you, little children, because ye have
known the Father."

MEMORY HYMN [544]

_"I love to tell the story."_




A UNIQUE PSALM