member and able to help them.  I think that makes a man out of a boy sooner than anything else.’  At the age of fourteen, he was a stoker in the boiler room of a small factory, and then took employment as a telegraph boy at $300 a year.  When he advanced to a place of greater responsibility as a telegrapher, he made his first investment in the purchase of an interest in an express company.  While still engaged in this capacity he met Woodruff, the inventor of the sleeping car, and seeing the value of the invention he later engaged in its manufacture.  From then forward, as superintendent of the Pittsburgh division of the Pennsylvania railroad, in the oil fields and in the steel industry of which he has long been regarded as the king, his rise has been the result, not of good fortune, but of hard work looking toward a desired object.

“The story of the success of the lives of Lincoln, of Moody, of Mozart, of thousands of the world’s great men is the story of work and hope, of poverty and inspiration.

“So, in the Christian life, Jesus asks us to cast out of our lives the pursuit of the vain, transient things and to center our minds and hearts upon the truest, the loftiest and the best.  Success may mean a most humble place in the world.  But the ‘pearl of great price’ is the blessing of peace, of faith, of hope and of love which come to him to whom the Master says, ‘Well done.’”

MESSAGES to the CHILDREN
    —­Cradle Roll Day
    —­Children

The Scriptures Are Full of Beautiful Thoughts for Cradle Roll
Day.

THE LESSON—­That God loves a baby; that both the Father and the Son, through their recorded words, constantly express their love of the little ones.

This somewhat “unusual” chalk talk will not fail to accomplish its object in getting the attention of the children and causing them to consider some of the especially beautiful thoughts appropriate to Cradle Roll Day.

The Talk.

“I want to see the hand of every boy or girl who likes to get a letter.  Yes, and you like to get pretty post cards, too; don’t you?  And the reason you like to get them is that you know, then, that someone thinks of you and cares for you.

“Well, then, on this Cradle Roll day, I am sure we would all like to get a letter from someone who cares for us, and so, I will first draw the envelope and then see if there is a message in it for us. [Draw the envelope on the paper in black outline and then, with the broad side of your crayon give it an even tinting of pink, light blue or other dainty color.  Then, with your black crayon, address the envelope to your own school, by revising the wording as here shown.  Add the stamp in brown, and the postmark in black, completing Fig. 90.]

[Illustration:  Fig. 90]

“Well, here is the envelope.  Now, I wonder if there is anything in it for us.

[With a sharp pen knife or scissors cut a slit in the paper at the end of the envelope as if you were opening it.  Thrust in your hand and bring forth a sheet of paper like a letter only much larger—­folded to fit the envelope (Fig. 91).  This, of course, is placed there in advance, beneath the outer sheet, attached with thumb tacks so it will tear loose readily.  The action will arouse much interest.]