THE TWO FACES
--Our Thoughts.
--Optimism.

"As a Man Thinketh in His Heart, So Is He"--A Lesson in Character
Building.

THE LESSON--That our thoughts determine the kind of life we live,
and often proclaim character in the face.

If the teacher succeeds in impressing upon the pupil the great need to
"guard well thy thoughts," for "our thoughts are heard in heaven," he
will have accomplished a work of immeasurable good in the life of the
child or youth who is the fortunate object of such interest.


~~The Talk.~~

"Let us think a while about our thoughts. Do you know it is a fact
that a man, seated quietly in an easy chair on his front porch on a
summer evening, may be sinning against God and man? Yes, it's true,
for, as he sits there in the silence, he can hate another man with a
bitter hatred; he can plan to rob him or burn his house or slander him
or even take his life. And the worst of it all is that if he allows
such thoughts to rent a room in his head it may not be long before his
evil designs have become awful deeds.

"Not many boys or girls think such terrible things, but thoughts of
this kind are only the little bad thoughts allowed to grow year after
year in the head and in the heart. And do you know, also, that if you