--ELIZA COOK.



TURN OVER A NEW LEAF
--New Year's Day
--Gladness

The Psalmist Truly Says that "A Merry Heart Maketh a Cheerful
Countenance."

THE LESSON--That the wearing of a gloomy countenance is
unpardonable and that "the smile that won't come off" is the kind that
ought to come on.

Laughter is catching. The following chalk talk will capture an
audience and bring genuine smiles as nothing else, perhaps, in this
book. It has been prepared for that purpose. While it is arranged here
as especially appropriate for the beginning of the new year, it may be
used with varying applications on many other occasions.


~~The Talk.~~

"There is a good deal of consolation in the words of Cowper, who truly
declares that

"'The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.'