A bank of credit on which we can draw supplies of confidence, counsel, sympathy, help and love. One who considers my need before my deservings. The triple alliance of the three great powers--love, sympathy and help. One who understands our silence. A jewel whose lustre the strong acids of poverty and misfortune cannot dim. One who smiles on our fortunes, frowns on our faults, sympathizes with our sorrow, weeps at our bereavement, and is a safe fortress at all times of trouble. One who, gaining the top of the ladder, won't forget you if you remain at the bottom. The holly of life, whose qualities are overshadowed in the summer of prosperity, but blossom forth in the winter of adversity. He who does not adhere to the saying that No. 1 should come first. -------- God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.--Psalm 41:6. -------- [Illustration: When the author left Louisville to 1905 for Chicago to be ordained, he was greatly helped by his friend Chas. F. Grainger, kindness never to be forgotten. HON. CHAS. F. GRAINGER Former Mayor of Louisville; now President Louisville Water Co. Mr. Grainger says, "Mr. Herr's work among prisoners has been very successful, and through his efforts many have reformed."] A watch which beats true, for all time, and never "runs down." An earthly minister of heavenly happiness. A friend is like ivy--the greater the ruin, the closer he clings. One who to himself is true, and therefore must be so to you. The same to-day, the same to-morrow, either in prosperity, adversity or sorrow. One who guards another's interest as his own and neither flatters nor deceives. One truer to me than I am myself.--Exchange. -------- Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer.--Ps. 19:14. -------- "Another Chance I Crave" [Courier-Journal] Austin, Tex., Dec. 2.--(Special.)--Jake McKinney, who was serving a life term in the State penitentiary at Rusk for the murder of Robert Walker in Jones county seven years ago, has just received his pardon from Gov. O. B. Colquitt on the strength of an appeal for liberty in the form of a poem that he wrote and sent to the Governor. This poetic application was turned over to Mrs. Colquitt by the Governor and it was upon her recommendation that McKinney was given his liberty. McKinney was twenty-four years old at the time of his conviction. During the last four years of his imprisonment he was editor of the prison newspaper, the Alcalde Chronicle. He attended night school while in the penitentiary. His poems and articles in the little newspaper that he published attracted much favorable attention. His pardon application reads in part as follows: