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Poverty - by James Platt

and so anxious was he to sow it in the early morning, that resolved to do it immediately he awoke and dressed, before he even consulted the chart and prayer. He went into the garden and planted it. I was coining in when he heard the chirp of the bird, and turning round saw him fly from the spot where he had planted the seed. He returned, and it evident the bird had been watching him plant and directly his back was turned, flew down and stole it.

It taught him a lesson he never forgot. Consult chart the first thing every morning.

An affecting story is told of an American gentle-man who gave the first steam-printing machine to the American Sunday School Union. He sat down to breakfast one morning, and was scanning over the morning paper, when his little son got on his knee, gently pulled the paper out of his hand, saying, with a smile, " Papa, Bible first ; papa, Bible first." Yes, the chart first. This lesson was never forgotten; always after the "Bible first." His son soon