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let it speak to you.

First of all this candle speaks of Symmetry. How perfectly formed is
this candle! It is smooth, there are no rough places that stand out like
an ugly wart on one's face. Your life should have symmetry. God asks you
to give heed to your physical, your mental and your spiritual duties
that your life may be well rounded, a life of beautiful symmetry.

Second, this candle stands for Fragrance. This is a fragrant candle. It
is what is known as a "barberry" candle. There are some children we do
not like to have around, they are surly, sulky and mean. There are
others we dear love to have with us at all times. They have what I call
fragrance. They have the fragrance of thoughtfulness, the sweetness of
unselfishness.

In the third place this candle means Erectness. How straight it stands
in the candlestick! Stand up straight, girls and boys. Do not stoop. Do
not hump yourself over your school desk. Walk erect. It means so much
now, it will mean much more in later years. Some day, if you heed my
word, you will be grateful that the preacher once said to you so
emphatically that you could not forget, "John, Mary, stand up straight."

Fourth, the candle stands for Light. It is useless until the wick is
lighted. It burns for others. Your life is a light. Jesus wants all
Christians to think of themselves as lights in the world. "Let your
light shine." Be a lighted candle for the Lord.

MEMORY VERSE, _Proverbs_ 20: 27

"The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord."

MEMORY HYMN [84]

_"The spacious firmament on high."_

ALAS, THE MARKS

There is an old, old story about a father who had great difficulty in
making his boy obey. The boy did wrong in spite of all that the father
could say or do. One day the father said to the boy, "Here is the shed
door, now every time you do wrong I am going to pound a nail into the
door." One by one the nails were pounded into the door, until it was
literally filled with nails. The boy did not like the looks of the door,
the thought of it began to trouble his conscience. So he spoke to his
father about it. "Well," said his father, "I'll tell you what we will
do. Every time you are obedient, every time you do a good deed rather
than a wrong one, we will pull a nail out." The bargain was struck, and
as, one by one, the nails were driven in, so, one by one, they were
pulled out.

Finally the day arrived when there was but one nail left. You can
imagine