READINGS FOR THE BIBLE BAND ADOPTION.
| Nov. | 1. 2 Cor. 14-18. |
| “ | 2. Gal. iii: 25-29. |
| “ | 3. Eph. iii: 14-21. |
| “ | 4. Eph. vi: 11-18. |
| “ | 5. John i: 9-13. |
| “ | 6. Gal. iv: 4-7. |
| “ | 7. Heb. ii: 10-18. |
| “ | 8. John xi: 41-52. |
| “ | 9. Rom. viii: 14-18. |
| “ | 10. 1 John iii: 1-3. |
| “ | 11. John xx: 19-22. |
| “ | 12. Heb. xii: 5-10. |
| “ | 13. Phil. ii: 12-16. |
| “ | 14. Matt. v: 44, 45, 48. |
| “ | 15. Eph. v: 1, 2. |
| “ | 16. Matt. vi: 25-34. |
| “ | 17. Matt. v: 13-16. |
| “ | 18. Matt. vii: 7-12. |
| “ | 19. Matt. v: 9-12. |
| “ | 20. Matt. vi: 12-15. |
| “ | 21. Luke vi: 35, 36. |
| “ | 22. Matt. vi: 1-4. |
| “ | 23. Prov. xiv: 26. |
| “ | 24. Num. vi: 24-27. |
| “ | 25. Is. lxii: 2, 3. |
| “ | 26. Matt. xiii: 43-46. |
| “ | 27. Matt. vi: 9-13. |
| “ | 28. Gen. xlviii: 5-11. |
| “ | 29. Ex. ii: 1-10. |
| “ | 30. Ps. xxiii. |
Lucy May Quint. If all the Pansies were as busy as my little friend in Whitefield how very busy I should be adding names to The Pansy roll. Many thanks, my dear. To make your meetings good will require a busy Lucy, thinking, reading, planning, conversing with parents and others, praying Jesus for guidance and comfort, never despairing, no matter what happens to spoil your meetings.
Keep gathering for your meetings, a crumb in this book or paper; another from a talk with some one; and so on. Thus you will always have something on hand.
You had a “nice,” “splendid” time in the church on Children’s Day, amid flowers and singing-birds, evergreens, and, best of all, a good sermon.
It is right to join the church. Now be true, dear, to your covenant, for Jesus’ sake. Don’t let any one who knows you doubt as to whether you are a Christian.
Christiana Lacy. No, the Editor did not forget Sevenfold Trouble, but “Uncle Sam” somehow forgot to get it from the writer to the printer. The mail does not always behave as it should.
Yes; I have read some of Miss Alcott’s works.
You and your friend Jennie seem to have a good standing in school. I am glad to hear good things of every Pansy.
Alice of Minn. “At the farm.” No wonder you like it ever so much; in the orchard, where you have a swing; down at the brook, where you try to catch a speckled trout; among the sheep and cows; riding on hay or wheat from field to barn; then sweet bread and sparkling butter!
As for the dishwashing, how you three girls do chatter while you are at it, and boast as to whose cups and saucers are wiped cleanest. If you will send a copy of the Queer Story, corrected, I can tell if it be right.
Ruth Kimball. Hunting eggs; boating among pond lilies; at Cedar Bend Farm; with such a dear companion as Alice must be, what a happy girl you are. Well, child, make other hearts sunny, too, won’t you?
Gertrude Burgess. None but perfect ones on the Queer Story appears in my report. Many come within one of it; that is a failure all the same as one hundred. See? “A miss is as good as a mile.” So, look your work over and over and over before you send it. Thus you will certainly do perfect work some day. Meanwhile the effort will be a—school to you. You are a blessed girl to be fighting so bravely against that fault. Have you learned how to lean your weakness upon Jesus’ might?
Lydia Sewell. The pansy on the card is larger than many, but no larger than some I’ve seen. By careful culture they grow to great size. Your corrected Queer Story is well done, yet with a few errors. It would be rather unusual if every particular had been right. Still, if you are a girl of good metal, you will certainly tug away at this spelling business till you will know the right as readily as you now know your mamma’s face from five thousand others. Keep on and show yourself a true Pansy soldier.
Lydia I. Boring. Your Queer Story is within one of perfection. So you need not be cast down. Some have made a dozen mistakes. I guess you will be A No. 1 one on the next Queer Story.
Adella F. Coy. Am glad you are pleased to think so kindly of your Pansy picture. I wonder if you have the picture of the Lord engraven on your heart and often look tenderly upon it through the eye of faith and love. Let’s never grow too old to delight in leading and blessing the little ones. You rejoice me in what you say of the badge. Many others say the same thing. If you will send me a corrected copy of the Queer Story I will examine it.
Helen S. Sloan. See above about the Queer Story. You “Busy Bees” made $127. The hospital will think that sweet as honey. You must write D. Lothrop Company, Boston, Mass., about the “prizes.” They will explain.
Mary E. Simpson. At your request, I hand your letter to R. M. Alden. I guess he will not throw it into the waste-basket.
Charlie Compher lives in Leesburg, Va. He will be glad to get a letter from you.
The country is a blessed place. Isn’t it queer that so many country boys and girls don’t think so, but are discontented and want to get to the city, feeling sure that the city will make them happy? Contentment, my dear Mary, is a precious possession.
Nannie Johnson. You are eleven years old. Now if you live to be seven times that and each day “grow in grace,” what a beautiful old lady you will be. Of course you will outgrow “carelessness” the first month, and have plenty of time to pick up after mamma, instead of her doing it after you; and the “pony” and “parrot” and “dog” and “dear little baby sister,” and everybody else, I guess, will be glad.
K. G. Boring. A capital account, yours, of your Fourth of July. I can almost see you at the parade, and I’m so glad you got home safely from the crowds and the tramp of horses and that your fingers are not blown off. Rockets and Roman candles seen from the house-top! Balloons, too! Happy child! But what will you say when you see the great Lord coming in the clouds? How rejoiced you will be if you are His at His coming.
May Cameron. Let me commend you for finding so many mistakes in the Queer Story. I must see your work to determine its correctness. As to faults: Many are temper faults; many, disorder; many, teasing, answering back; “wait a minute;” biting nails, etc.
Remember me to Mr. Doane. You seem to be a wide-awake Band of Hope, with your meetings, “Mizpah,” flowers, and care of the sick. To be busy for the Saviour is to be safe from Satan.
Charlie M. Ritter. You are very kind to remember the organ. I wish I could say something to make everything green and beautiful about you. But your turn will come. Wait on the Lord, be of good courage. He hears the young raven when it cries. What a delightful time you must have had on Children’s Day.
Elma Holmes. And while you wear your badge here and there, be sure that you so live that your mother and all the dear ones at home can say, “Our Elma does what she professes.”
Edith G. Grant. I shouldn’t wonder if your Queer Story was correct. Let me see a copy now. Allie will soon learn other good things besides “cutting kindling-wood,” perhaps to read Pansy or Bible stories when mamma is tired. How I should love to visit you in your summer home in “beautiful Tullahoma.” Instead, I went to beautiful Ashville, N. C., in September.
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