American literature -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Sunday schools -- United States -- Periodicals
_Lizzie_ from Connecticut. My dear, I pray for every name enrolled
on our P. S. book. That God will make each Blossom fragrant for him,
and take it some day to his heavenly garden, is my constant hope and
prayer. Perhaps you need to use the prayer which I find very necessary
for me every day: "Set a watch, O Lord, before my tongue. Keep the door
of my lips."
_Emma_ from Massachusetts. My dear, THE PANSY is just twelve years old.
Doesn't it travel over a large part of the world for one so young?
_Lena_ from Massachusetts. We should be glad to hear about the
entertainment. I hope you had a good time. Suppose you see how good a
description you can write of it, and of your Sabbath-school?
_Annie_ from Georgia. But I do not know that you are in Georgia now, my
Blossom. Perhaps you have already moved to that "New home." If so, you
will be able to write and tell me how you like it. I was glad to get
your full name for enrollment.
_Emma_ from Illinois. What success do you have with "impatience?" He
is a very trying enemy; you certainly do well to rid yourself of him.
But did you find it easy work? A little friend of mine said she could
be just as patient as anybody when things went as she wanted them to;
it was when nothing behaved right that she got impatient. I have known
older people than she who might have said the same.
_Alice_ from Vermont. My dear Blossom, I hope the badge reached you in
safety and is helping you about taking care of those "things." Such
little habits are great trials to "mamma," and I am sure our little
Alice wants to be all the comfort she can to mother, especially now
that God has taken the dear father and the sister home. I know how
lonely you must be without them; but I hope you are trying every day to
live so that when He calls you, it will be a joy for you to go and join
your dear ones in their bright home.
_Andrew_ from Dakota. Here comes another "impatient" boy! So they
cannot be patient out in Dakota any better than they can farther East?
Well, Satan seems to be busy bothering people all the world over. The
Whisper Motto is just these three words: "For Jesus' Sake." We call it
the Whisper Motto, not because we want to hide it, but because we want
to have it about with us all the time, speaking softly to our hearts
when others cannot hear, perhaps when others are in the midst of talk
which makes us feel cross, and we want to remember to give a "soft"
answer because that is the only one which will please Jesus. There is
no "charge" for membership in the P. S. There is a pledge to try to
overcome some bad habit, and to adopt the Whisper Motto as one's own.
We welcome you to our ranks, and have enrolled your name.
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