At the last moment of the hour extinguish this candle and in total darkness let the old year pass out. At the first minute of the New Year turn on all the lights, arise, and sing, and after the Lord's Prayer, in which they all join, say to the people "A happy New Year to all," and the meeting has ended, and the New Year begun. As an additional feature for this meeting prepare as large a book as possible with all the pages white and say, This is your book of the New Year. It is a fresh start for you, There will be nothing written on its pages of white except what you write there. Begin tonight and go straight and keep white. Write over the first page, "In the beginning God." That makes the start right, so it will always be white. Write this on the fresh page of every day also, and you will go straight for the whole year. =43 PUTTING A GOD TO BED OBJECTS: Three Small Idols= I suppose you have often heard of little girls putting their dollies to bed. Well, here is a story of a full-grown woman by the name of Michal who put her little god to bed. We read this strange story in the Bible and we will find it written in 1 Samuel 19:13. "And Michal took the image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with the clothes." But who was this Michal who put her god to bed? She was the wife of King David, and you would have thought she had thrown her idols all away long ago, but she did not do this but continued to put one god to bed long after she had become the wife of a king who believed only in the one true and living God. I suppose she often sang with David her husband, "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want," and often with her husband had repeated, "God is our Refuge and our Strength," but with all this she nevertheless put her idol to bed and motherlike, she found herself down on her knees placing the bolster under the head of her idol and carefully covering it with clothes just as mother tenderly tucks in her little baby boy for the night. Well, after all, I guess she was just like the most of us, she openly confessed her belief in the true God, but on the side had a darling idol or two.