features are
venerable and whose characters are Christ-like.

QUESTIONS.--Are the leaves alike on all trees? In
what ways are the leaves like the tree on which
they grew? Are Sunday-school scholars much like
the school that they attend? Are grown people
greatly influenced by the pastor who preaches to
them, and the people with whom they are
associated? Of what are great trees the result?
How do leaves accomplish this? When a leaf drops
from the tree, what has already started? What do
fading and dropping leaves represent? Does the
tree abide when the leaves fall? When we die do
the great influences which we have helped forward
remain to bless the world? Who still notes our
deeds when we pass away? Which are more beautiful,
summer or autumn leaves? What periods of life are
they like?

THE TURTLE.

MEN LIKE AND YET UNLIKE THE ANIMALS.

SUGGESTION:--While it is not at all necessary to
present any special objects, it will add to the
interest if the parent has a turtle shell or even
the shells of oysters, clams or abalone, which are
somewhat the same in principle, the outside cover
of the animal constituting both its home and
defence, although differing from the turtle in
other respects.

MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: I want to show you to-day how in some respect we
are like the animals, and how in other respects we are very unlike them.
To illustrate what I desire to say I have brought this small turtle
shell. From the way that some boys treat flies and bugs, and birds, cats
and dogs and all kinds of animals you would suppose that many boys and
some girls think that animals have no feeling. Boys who have never
suffered any bodily pain themselves, oftentimes act as though they
thought that animals could not suffer pain, but in this they are greatly
mistaken. Animals can and do suffer pain, the same as people suffer
pain, and in order to defend them against their enemies God has provided
these creatures of His hand with some means of protecting themselves.
The birds can fly away. Some animals, like foxes, have holes in the
ground where they can hide. Others, like the squirrel, hide in the
hollow trees. Bees can sting. Some cattle have horns for defence, and
some others, which ar