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transported on the same ingenious substitutes,
and the pattern has been largely adopted, as packing
cases are plentiful.

Eliz. T. Stabler read a short article written to
“The Sun” some months since by R. B. Thomas, an
earnest plea for “peace on earth and good will to men.”

Mary E. Thomas gave by request of S. T. Miller
some remarks she had made at The Grange upon
the advantage of teaching children patriotism opposed
to militarism. She said, “If they were
taught to be loyal to their parents, to their friends, to
their school and their church, they would be loyal
to their country, and consider it of greater importance
to work and live for it than to die for it.

Ellen Farquhar brought several short extracts
from newspapers, “The Wail of the Well”, was the
plaint of a normal child who was neither deaf,
blind, crippled, nor imbecile, so he could not
have “a special teacher” like those afflicted young
man, mentioned with envy.

Your delinquent Sec’y will have to confess
that she is hazy, or perhaps lazy is the right
word, as to the source of some clippings loaned
her, so she will just have to give them
minus the exact source and trust to the
kindly judgment of her friends.

“The Presence of God”
“Beneath the Shadow of Great Protection
The soul sits, hushed and calm.
Bathed in the peace of that divine affection,
No fever-heats of life or dull dejection
Can work the spirit harm
Diviner heavens above
Look down on it in love.
And as the varying winds move where they will,
In whispers soft, through trackless fuels of air
So comes the Spirit’s breath serene and still,
It’s tender messages of love to bear
To men of every race and speech and zone,
Making the whole world one,
Till every sword shall to a sickle bend,
And the long weary strifes of earth shall end.”

James Freeman Clarke
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