Hope is the centerpiece of the familiar trio--Faith, Hope and Charity--and not the least one of these virtues. It is practical to be hopeful and to order our lives in the spirit of hopefulness; the world will be better for our hopefulness, especially in these depressing times. Moreover, it is a Christian duty to be hopeful. "Hope," says the Rev. Julian K. Smyth, head of the Swedenborgian church in the United States, "is an affection of the will, and the will is ever in the desire to act; thus hope is not only a lively virtue, but a heroic and even a practical one." It is a good rule of life never to be discouraged no matter what the misfortune, disappointment or mistake. Life will have been a success to one who lives in hopefulness, for life will have been lived happily through many human failures and errors. Life in the world of the flesh is a battle which, if well fought--if we have faith in the Divine Providence--means a victory over what we call Death, for Death is in truth not the End, but the-- BEGINNING. End of Project Gutenberg's The Prairie Schooner, by William Francis Hooker