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rf has been'to me the sig men and women kneeling at | : --- Ee I e Mercy-Seat. oY HE Se 2 hen, 100, 1 have lost the hope off f° Sarin : tr ' able with any facility to. write, | § = © tt r f ; D S If while it will be anabsoluteimpossibil- |. L LEIS TOM a i= ¢ iy read well Wl Sy i le up all my losses, they are many : M d F er Sind serious 3 sami but look at the | : a e arm er First, there is my confidence in God. pe not going to allow the existence t - S of a few things. which are in conflict O IS O Nn with my judgment to interfere with my confidence in His wisdom--con- fidence that is inspired by a lifelong Fergus, Ontario, June 26, 1912 knowledge of His loving care. - : ; Then, I have not lost the assurance! | To Mr. James Tompkins, my own happy relations with my! : eavenly Father. I. have hot lost! Port Perry, Ontario. the confidence and love of "my - own Dear Jim----- dear people, I have notlost the ines- |. timable blessing of life. It's quite a spell since I've written to you, and you don't know 1 want the continued loyalty 'of my how much you've missed. There ain't no doubt but. I could have own people, and the heartier co-oper-| |. 14 you an uncommon lot of good things while I've been choring ~faton of all men and "women whose vo a ve hearts are fired with the same purpose round the house and garden these three weeks back, but I didn't. as my own. i That's the way with us farmers--we're tongue-tied when it comes to Ima few week's 'time I hope to be saying what we wants to say. It don't matter whether we wants to found once more on the battlefield. pop the question or make a speech--we're mighty-shy on words: And | Anyway my dear, comrades, un the round home you often seem to run out of talk quicker nor any place light or in the dark, you may count fapon your General to trust in. God else. - You Ma often asks me why I don't say something, and 1 tell land go forward! her I ain't got nothing to talk about. Five minutes later one of the WILLIAM BOOTH. neighbors drops in, and I get started and you can't stop me till I've run down. 1 say a whole lot of clever things I didn't know I SCUC06 knowed, and some of them is nigh good enough to go into a book. : BORNZ-On Saturdd Yubie réth, I was reading a book the other day, and the fellow what wrote it at the" Head, to Mr. ahd Mrs, Wm. said that the reason why most folks drinks is because it makes them Jefivey, a daughter. feel sociable. They goes jogging along with their heads down, and On account of the illness of Mrs. their feelings gets all locked up and the key gets lost, and they Redman; Mr. Redman has resigned grumps around the house not saying nothing to nobody; and then the superintendency of the Head Sun-| I they goes down town and has a drink or two and comes home feeling he lr tong and _faithiyl awful good. They live in two streaks lots of them--grumps and ; : drunks, and it ain't no easy job to tell which streak the' women folks honored By ie eh Te likes worst. If you wants to add ten years to Susie's life and your tell in a community, own, be jolly round the house. Don't kick the cat or pull the A valuable 'three-year-old colt be- youngster's ear just because it keeps raining and you can't get your longi 'Mr. Wm Savage of 'the bay dry. or because the cows get into your oats. Of course I know last week. you won't do none of those things because you're a Tompkins; and { : your. mother was a Smithers; but just the same there's folks that does on Saturday, opened up their - cottage and it's just as well to keep track of the signs, Why I know a man, ds]at Pettity Joins A tor 30 spend: his name is 1 could tell you his name, but I ain't a going to, RL % for he ain't the only one of his kind. ~ Well that man's just as nice a Mr. Demara has been off duty ow- fellow as you'd wish to meet except round heme, and there he's a ing lf £5 volien hand Poa; regular Napoleon Bonypart. Decent fellow, pays his debts and al] lance it 4nd remove an abcess. " that, but as cranky as sin round the house. - 'The youngsters is scared: Mr. and Mrs. Geo. . Jackson, of]] of him and he won't let them have any toys or pets. Poor kids! Port Perry, attended service at the "Now it's my private opinion that all that ails that man is his i FR 'liver. He's a good feeder and a great . worker,' but he don't know ¢ : nothing about his insides. He's got a gasoline engine out 'in the 2 Of Sd dc 3 rand there ain't nothing you can show him about it that he 'dor' have | or old work: OFge died: a frm already. He strains all the gasoline he uses, don't let et too with jamicuds of Me Black rejoice 'much, nor too much oil neither, for he knows that if he' ar they 'had 'Wendered far to. pastures | of the insides of that.engine it'll stop right up on him. it green. Aa ie wf 0 1 blind 'as a bat about his own innards. He sit' down and eat yther loss, 'as h Miss Hazel Aldred and Clyde Plats | just Lin ten 'are writing this week on their ex~{ § because he's too busy'to go after-it And then. he: gets tired: and ams or teacher's interim 2nd - class first thing you know there's an explosion--he's started to backfire, or! : m else he stops up altogether; and then everybody has to fly around and, wait on him till be gets better. dy g It wouldn't be so bad if he'd do the same with himself as would with his gasoline engine--find out what's the matter and fix i "But no, he calls his indigestion temper, and blanes it on the devil Poor devil. . He's blamed for an awful lot of mean streaks that when. | it come to find out what they really is, they ain't n ow by eating too much. : our mean, .