Show MAKE TIME TO WRITE WHITE it la is a common complaint often nut with by missionaries and others abroad that people who have emigrated to tie new world are apt to forget their friends in the old home at the augment of departure when tender tto were severed and the pangs of tion keenly felt promises to remember and to write were given no doubt honestly and in sincerity new surroundings roun dings new friends feverish activity in the various lines of business busine were not anticipated they came however and with them neglect perhaps of fulfilling sacred promises this is wrong and often injurious in more directions than one in the eloquent language of bishop thorald quoted by an eastern exchange Is there an old acquaintance whom you seldom see but whom you ought not to forget who knew and abd loved you when you were both children tog together ther and who still prizes your friendship though it is of little use to him now and then write to him thine own friend and thy fathers friend forsake not Is there a servant retired ten crom your service who has nursed your dw dren been a kind and true friend to you in sad and dark hours who to lo growing old as you yourself some day will grow old with few changa in a dull life and few pleasures in a poor one occasionally send a message to that dear though humble friend if not always in your own hand at any rate raft by your wife or of child it win sur bur thoughts of slumbering hap happiness ina in a kind heart that has loved you with a love as good as a rich mans love and ana served you with a service that no mere mem wages could repay or have you acm agm parents eving far away it may be to some remote home whose monotony mon otono and ever shortening life Is in never so 0 o pleasantly broken as by news of yu you whose midnight thoughts and noonday musings are ever full of you who grow young and brave in the thought of your yew success and whose constant prayers have much more to do with it than you a know of never let them feel that you are too busy to think of them or too important to care for them visit them when you can you will not have them much longer but regu regularly laft make time to write |