“And so, I tell you of another thing that we can do.

“Listen!  Tell me what a boy thinks about, and I will tell you what kind of a man he will grow up to be.

“The man who swears, thought of bad things and used bad words when he was a boy.  The man who is a thief thought about dishonest things when he was a boy.  The man who is happy and who finds it his delight to do good, formed the habit of thinking and doing good things when he was a boy.  The man who loves his work learned to like to work when he was a boy.

“And it is work that I want to speak about today.

“There is no place in the world for a lazy boy or girl.  Nobody wants them.  Boys who hate to work are the kind that loaf around poolrooms and pollute the air with vile cigarette smoke and language which bespeaks an empty mind and a corrupt heart.

“As Jesus is our great example in every way, He stands out strongly as our example of how a workman should delight in his employment.  We should first find the thing which God intends that we shall do, for we are all fitted to do some things better than others, and we should then put forth our best efforts to learn to do that one thing as well as we can.  We must center our thoughts upon the things we want to do.  Life will then become a delight, because the world is always crying for workers who know how to do their work.  The other kind is always to be found but never wanted.  The demand is for the ones who know how.  It is a significant fact that the first recorded words of Jesus Christ are, ’Wist ye not that I must be about my father’s business?’ This makes of Jesus a Business boy, and it was God’s work he began so soon.

“Gladstone, an inspiring example of the true workman, says, ’The thrift of time will repay in after life with usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams, and the waste of it will make you dwindle alike in intellectual and moral stature beyond your darkest reckoning.’

“The happiest people in the world are those who are busy at something worth while, and the most miserable are those who are in idleness for lack of ambition or else are engaged in work which they themselves loathe because of its baseness.”

THE DOORWAY
    —­Easter
    —­Death

The Resurrection of Christ the Hope of the World—­An Easter
Thought.

THE LESSON—­That death is but the doorway between the earthly life and the heavenly life of the believer.

There is no new thought or theory concerning the dead in Christ.  The most profound thinkers of the ages consider death as the entrance to a future life.  The illustration here presented has been employed in various forms, but is given with the hope that it may, at Easter, help someone to a clearer conception of the reward which awaits the faithful.

The Talk.

“James Russell Lowell, dwelling upon the darkness of the cloud of sorrow which death brings into the home, wrote: