tmas time. This
little incident made me feel that I had never known sacrifice
before--for here was one who often goes hungry to bed, without any of
the comforts of life, yet to make others happy gave literally "all she
had." Truly were the blessed Lord here His words regarding the poor
widow must have been repeated. I feel that the wood she brought is
almost too sacred to be put to common use. I would that a piece of it
were in every Christian home to teach the lesson of true sacrifice.

On Christmas morning a dozen homes will be made happy by these humble
gifts. One old lady in our visits we found so destitute that she had
tasted nothing from Saturday night till Tuesday, when one of the girls
of Gregory school took her in her breakfast. The old lady telling
about it said she knew the Lord would not let her starve. The teachers
have voluntarily taxed themselves ten cents a month, which provides
for her food at least. I need not multiply these cases. Many
sacrifices in kind, if not in degree, could be mentioned equal to that
of little Mary, and many cases of need as extreme as that of "Aunt
Maggie." The scanty purses of the A. M. A. teachers, many of whom, as
in my own case, are obliged to economize in every way to keep our own
families from actual want, are inadequate to meet the demand, and why
should we multiply their cases on our minds when we are powerless to
help?

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CHILDREN'S CAUSES FOR THANKFULNESS.

MISS LILLIAN L. GOAR, BLOWING ROCK, N. C.

_Dear Friends_: I want to tell you of our Junior Thanksgiving service
last Wednesday eve. The meeting was led by a Junior. After prayer by
one of the members the leader asked of each one: "What have _you_ to
be thankful for?" We had so many blessings given that a large
blackboard was covered, with reports of the many "thankfulnesses." The
following are a few of the many: "For Christ most of all," "the Holy
Bible," "health," "warm sunshine," "blue sky," "I don't know of
anything I'm _not_ thankful for," "for plenty of everything, bread and
fruit and everything to eat," "for forgiveness," "Junior meetings,"
"to bring wood and water for our mothers and fathers." One of the
several four-year-olds in school was thankful for a "stove, love (for)
our brothers, to play, eatin' an' things to cook it in."

And this same little boy, who comes from a home anything but
attractive, had this sentence in his prayer, "thankful for home."
Ano