"May God bless you, mothers, and help you to help these boys and these girls to meet the great problems which are before them. You must help them. Without you, they are on unsafe ground, treading perilous paths."
NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS
—New Year's Day
—Watchfulness
Most of Them May be Rolled into One—"Hold Fast to That Which Is Good."
THE LESSON—That the positive life, rather than the negative life, knows true happiness.
While this talk is planned for the special application to the opening of the fiscal or the school or church year, it may be revised very easily to fit many other occasions.
The Talk.
"Right now, at the beginning of the new year, we hear a great deal about making resolutions, 'turning over a new leaf,' and so on. In many cases, these things are spoken of lightly and laughingly, and yet, I know that many of us, away down deep in our hearts, are thinking of things which we are resolving to do during the new year and also of things which we have made up our minds not to do during the coming twelve months.