"How easy it is to attach a sting to an innocent remark! Our lightly-spoken words may blight the life of an innocent one, for words repeated are like the rolling snowball which grows larger as it is pushed over the fallen snow. As one dog, howling in the night, causes all the other dogs in town to howl, so we may start a needless alarm by a single unfair word. "Let us praise the good, always, for none--not even ourselves--is perfect." THE DECEITFULNESS OF SIN --Sin --Allurement The Modern Artificial Fishing Bait As an Illustration of Seductiveness. THE LESSON--That sin gains its victims through the most alluring deception. This illustration should prove valuable in presenting to the minds of boys of all ages the truth of the seductiveness of sin, as the treatment of the subject brings in a discussion of a sport with which all are more or less familiar. ~~The Talk.~~ "At the beginning of our talk today, I am going to place on the drawing paper the picture of a fish. [Draw Fig. 80, complete.] It looks like a very large fish, but, as a matter of fact, it is a very greatly enlarged picture of a very little fish. In reality, it is a minnow only about three inches long, the kind which the bigger fish like for dessert, and which, therefore, are usually pretty careful where they go. [Illustration: Fig. 80] "Now, I want to see, by having you hold up your hands, just how many of you boys like to go fishing? One, two, three--why, nearly all of you. Some, I suppose are fond of still-fishing--that is to fish from the bank or from an anchored boat, and not move around very much. And some like to troll, I suppose--that is to use an artificial bait and let the line drag in the water quite a distance back of the row boat as you propel it through the water. And others, perhaps, like to cast--that is, to throw the bait away out into the water and then bring it in again by winding up the line on the reel. And some, I suppose, like to use other methods of catching fish. But I am going to speak only of the artificial bait which is used by those who troll and cast.