hers have sung his praises
in verse and narrative. Let us learn from him the lesson of devoting
one's life to making other people happy. I will add a few lines to
indicate all that John Chapman tried to do. [Add apples in red,
converting the map into a branch bearing apples, Fig. 75.] But he did
vastly more than this. He brought brightness into many a heart during
his long years of usefulness, and while he helped to make the Middle
West a fruit-growing country, the real fruit of his work was that of
helpfulness, sympathy and brightness through Christ, who guided him in
his strange work.

[Illustration: Fig. 75]

"'A sower went forth to sow.' If the kind of ground in which he sowed
did not bring forth fruit, it was not the fault of the tireless
sower."

PUBLIC SENTIMENT
--Home Department Day
--Unity

It is a Powerful Element--An Illustration for Home Department
Day.

THE LESSON--That the earnest prayers and work of the stay-at-home
members are a great inspiration to the active workers in the
school.

Home Department Day in the Sunday School may be made a most helpful
event in the life of the school and in the lives of those who do not
enjoy the privilege of attending the services regularly. Many who are
usually employed on Sunday, in hotels, boarding houses, railroad
positions, and the like, can ofttimes arrange to attend this session
prepared especially for them. It is assumed that you have been
supplying the members of the Home Department with lesson helps, and
that you have kept in touch with them. Souvenirs may be sent to
invalids and aged people as well as to other members who cannot be
present. The colors are purple and white; the flower, the violet.

~~The Talk.~~

"I am going to draw for you today the portrait of one who exerts the
most powerful influence in this community. [Draw the outline of the
head, omitting the facial lines. Fig. 76.]

[Illustration: Fig. 76]

"But before I finish the portrait I want you to know that if it were
not for this one we would never have had our beautiful parks or our
magnificent court house. It was he who attended to the paving of our
streets. We would have had no public library but for him. There would
have been no public schools here, and no church spires would be
pointing heavenward, if he had not sanctioned them. We would never
have had our water works system, our sewerage system or our electric
lights. In short, we never would have had any of t