Gird yourselves up, girls and boys. Fasten up your life, strong and firm, and be true, and you will have a great help in being a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
XXVIII
THE SOLDIER'S OUTFIT—THE KIT BAG
When you go on a journey you carry a suitcase, or you take a trunk, in which you place your belongings that you will need while away from home.
When the soldier goes off to the war he has a bag in which he puts some of the things he cannot do without—things that are absolutely necessary.
First. It is wonderful when you come down to bed rock, how few things we need, after all. Most of us are overburdened.
There is hardly a girl or boy that has not a whole lot of unused baggage lying around—old toys and books, old ribbons and hats. They fill the bureau drawer and lie around the room and take up space in cupboards until your mother simply gives them away or burns them up.
When I left Vancouver to come to Toronto, I had a bonfire in my back yard for a lot of stuff that I used to think I had to save up.
Houses are like that, too. I roomed once in a very beautiful home, but the drawing-room was so full of furniture that you could not turn around without getting a bump somewhere.
There are a lot of things in our homes and a lot of material in our lives, and a lot of stuff in our minds that is just like piles of old lumber in the fence corner, doing no good; or like a lot of old clothes in a cupboard, only gathering moths.