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: Episcopal and Canada ods were 'used. Such o save expense or it ight txactly the same manner ing. provision has been d by an individual church; the fine of the uhion, and vested charge, and not for the : de Somme a part, shall not" be the tion, or by any e consent of the charge Y a non no new iurthes: will be built without tay isers will 'be appointed 'without the relatiolis 'between pastor and isatisfacory, or if for any reason pas: desire. a the matter may be 0 meeting of the "made to appeintient of ministers he ground that it would mean a life ssbyterian ministers are appointed. 'in: this the present time, but in actbal practice the average of the P years, sdinctly remembered: that ample provision terminate a pastorate' where the. relations 'become unsatisfactory. : said in favor of an extended pastorate, as ayers € generally spent by a | 'pastor in becoming s people, and it sometimes Happens that r for lack of Spiritual uplift-at crises' in only tried friendship can be of actual help. itinerant System gives greater| ch and acl 'asked as to he name of the f the many matters that have after the union nas taken place. ~ ible that a generation may . pass away be-| ill be attained in the new organization. will be. Hecessary i bes results are to be again be as they should be taken than I expected. shy terian pastorate is' between seven and{ Ey i i i to: His Soh fol Port Perry, Ontario, Febraary rg, 1912 To James Tompkins, Toronto, Ont, Dear Jim-- _ The best news I've heard yet is that you think you'll give up your *'sit* in Toronto and come back to the farm. That's great! and a sight sooner I've been wondering how I could get away this summer $0 that your ma and me could get on our honeymoon. That - trips: a bit late in coming, but, I can see it's time we had it for your ma looks as - tired asl feel. When we was married there wasn't any place to go ona honeymoon trip. Niagara hadn't been discovered as a summer resort, and we didn't know anything about 'other points east," so we stayed at home 'and got the chinks. in the old log house properly. fixed up. | 'Bit by bit we slicked things up, and now it looks as if we might have time to look about for a spell. . There's. three ways of eating jam tarts--one fs to lick out the jam and eat the crust after. There's folks that take all their pleasure when. they're young, and hés a crusty time ever after. Another way. is to 'nibble away the crust, and leaves the jam till last. {Other folks has all the hard times : first, and lets the good times slip through their fingers, The third way' is to take jam and crust just as the cook made it. Mest of life is good enough as we find it if we only take the whole thing and make the best of it. The other day I heard a fellow sing these lines-- "When the haivest work is over, father dear And the wodd's all'split that's lain there since last year To the farm in Hassensar, that's the time I'm coming back When the harvest work is over, father dear." Well the haivest work is over, and the wcod's all split, but you needn't get any notion that there's nothing to do. There's more work getting ready for the spring that' 's to come than most folks think. ] 7 hat-corn we have wi | have to be tested. Isee that when it's 'real cold like it's been this winter, the germ of the. corn may freeze, and it's ne use plinting the stuff at all. Near all our seed grain wasn't up to the mark except the bit of dats we had on the field that was summer fallowed a year + 'or'so ago. You'll have to look that stuff up, for it's 'no- use puiting poor seed into the ground, and then looking for a good crop. "There's one' word of warning. I'd like to give you; and that is not to build too many castles in the air. There's a sight of danger that a' fellow with brains is Tikely to get fits of dreaming, and fits: of thie dumps, "and neither one fit nor the other is any use to you or anybody else. Most of us are all right i in our minds--we can make plans and figger:' out the things we are going to do; but it's getting busy and Qing them that "causes all the trouble: | CZ When you make up your mind to do a job, just do it. Don't stand "around like a hen on on the edge of a pond where her ducklings has goons Getatat «Get busy. Don't be sympathizing with yourself about the - job being hard. The ba dest part of most jabs is getting started; It takes & brave man to work right each day; to lose no time; to make the. Lest ot oi everything. i. Life is a mighty busy pérlotiics for the fellow' that ishlt jast<a' tator at the show 3 Or a ut eless 8 Jomp of clay not yet snd fox the Und 4