preceding the talk and make clippings of
incidents to fit the points of the first seven paragraphs. It is well
to ask the children to repeat each word as it is placed on the drawing
paper.

~~The Talk.~~

"The thing I am going to speak about today is not a pleasant one. The
fact is that nothing good can be said about it, for it deals with
sorrow and death. You may wonder, then, why we do not speak of
something bright and happy; and I answer that if you learn the lesson
about this thing of sorrow and death, your lives will escape its
influence and you will be many more times likely to be happy; and if
you do not learn the lesson, you may suffer distress and anguish all
the years of your later life. This thing is known as a great evil
power. Sometimes we hear of it coming into the home and making a
brute out of a loving husband. Where there was happiness and joy there
is now sorrow and despair. [Place the word Sorrow on the drawing
paper. When adding the succeeding words, be sure to place them exactly
as indicated in Fig. 43.]

[Illustration: Fig. 43]

"Again, this evil power creeps into a home and fastens itself upon a
young man who had before him every promise of a bright, successful
life. So relentless is it that the young man, in despair, takes his
own life. [Add the word Death.]

"Again, we see a man, successful in business, with no seeming obstacle
in the way of greater achievement, when, one day, we find his doors
are closed. This evil power has come upon him and he is a bankrupt and
a failure. [Add the word Failure.]

"Again, we hear of a man who has been a leader among men--a brilliant
lawyer, a keen thinker--taken from his place and confined in a
hospital for the insane. The same evil power has done this. [Add the
word Insanity.]

"Again, we know of a young man who was strong and robust, a splendid
specimen of physical manhood; now he has lost his health and
strength. The same evil power has come upon him and has placed him on
a bed of sickness from which he cannot rise. [Add the word Sickness.]

"Again, how often do we hear that a man, respected and honored, has in
a moment of passion, taken the life of another man, just because this
evil power came in and caused him to do it. [Add the word Murder.]

"But more common than all the other terrible things which this great
evil power does is the bringing of wretchedness and want to the wives
and the children of the men who are its victims. These innoc