<h2><SPAN name="LETTERS" id="LETTERS" /><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_58" id="Page_58"></SPAN>[58]</span>LETTERS</h2>
<p>Who is the most popular man in your town? The Postman. Who is the man
who is most eagerly looked for as he comes down the street? The Postman.
Who receives, at every door where he stops, a most cordial welcome? The
Postman. I wonder if the thrill of getting a letter will ever pass away.
When you come home from school the first thing you do is to look on the
hall table to see if the Postman has brought you a letter. It is the
same when we grow up. No matter how many letters we may receive we never
get over the keen delight at having the Postman bring us letters.</p>
<p>Last Sunday afternoon you wrote your grandmother. You said, "Only two
months more of school and then I am coming to see you, and all the
summer vacation I am going to play around your big house, and in the
barn, and across the fields, and through the woods." On your way to
school Monday morning, you posted that letter. Monday afternoon you
began looking for an answer. Tuesday you were impatient <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_59" id="Page_59"></SPAN>[59]</span>that you had
not received a reply. Wednesday you were almost in tears, though, had
you only stopped to think you would have known that it takes two days
for a letter to get to your grandmother, she lives so far away. Thursday
the answer came. "I am eager for vacation time to come so that you, my
dear grandchild, may be here with me."</p>
<p>I have here an unusual book. It is a book of letters. All the letters
were written by a big man, a father, to little children, his children.
The man who wrote them was Theodore Roosevelt. What fortunate children
were his! Not many fathers take time to write to their children as did
our great president. Oh, for more fathers like Roosevelt! Oh, for
appreciative children, who will not only gladly receive, but cheerfully
write, letters of love!</p>
<p>MEMORY VERSE, <i>I John</i> 2: 12</p>
<div class="blockquot"><p>"I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the
beginning. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the
Father."</p>
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<p>MEMORY HYMN [544]</p>
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<span><i>"I love to tell the story."</i><br/></span></div>
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