ing address on these subjects is always appreciated. Such
addresses are a means of instruction and serve to awaken popular
enthusiasm.

Some synods have adopted the plan of holding an annual Sunday school
convention during the evening and day preceding the meeting of the
synod. These endeavor to bring before the young Sunday school workers,
the very best speakers available, on the subjects to be discussed.

The arrangements for the popular addresses should be made several weeks
in advance, so the speakers may be prepared and the people be duly
notified.

BENEDICTION

"May the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord
Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the
everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his
will, working in you, that which is well pleasing in his sight
through Jesus Christ; to whom be dominion and glory for ever and
ever. Amen."

[Illustration: REV. R. D. COLBERT]

[Illustration: REV. M. L. BETHEL]

[Illustration: THE SWEET POTATO FIELD. 1911
Looking north from the Frisco railway: the boys' temporary hall at the
right.]

[Illustration: TWO SETS OF PORTABLE ROOFS FOR SWEET POTATO PITS

1. A set of roofs set aside on their edges for the summer.

2. A set as they appear when set over a pit. The ends are closed during
Winter. Looking northwest toward the rear of Elliot Hall.]

PART IV

THE BIBLE IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL AND NATION

The two following chapters, relating to the supreme importance of
reading the Bible daily in every public school of the land, are a
supplement to the brief discussion of this subject, that appears in the
introductory part of this volume.

"Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,--
The eternal years of God are hers;
But Error, wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies among his worshippers."

"Truth forever on the scaffold;
Wrong forever on the throne;
Yet that scaffold sways the future;
And behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God, within the shadow,
Keeping watch above his own."

Queen Victoria said to the King of Siam: "England owes her greatness to
this book--The Open Bible."

The Bible, and the public school to make known to all the children its
moral principles and religious truths, have brought liberty, greatness
and enlargement to the United States of America and Great Britain.

These two instrumentalities--