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hands, and if we rise to the full height of our
duty, the children of the future will have an inheritance
of clean pure fatherhood and motherhood.

J. S. Porter from the Friends In. "Getting
Old showing how: If we have lived aright, and
are still living so, this matter of growing old is
simply one of an earlier release from burdens
of responsibility.

R. M. Thomas "The River of Life" by Thomas
Campbell.

Anna F. Gilpin. "Buds of the Century".
Women's Clubs etc from the Christian Union.

S. A. Bond. no contribution.

M. Farquhar a lovely little poem from the
S S Times.

E. G. Thomas. My Burden"

I'll drop my burden at his feet;
And bear a song away" with this
concluding verse.

"Tell Him about the heartaches.
And tell him the longings, too;
Tell him the baffled purpose,
When we scarce know what to do.
Then, leaving all our weakness,
With the one divinely strong,
Forget that we bore the burden,
And carry away the song.

One of our visitors Anna Rice Powell recited
beautifully. "Among the Hills, by Rev. W. C. Gannett.