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Show 41 Our facilities for work are very good. Everything about the church looks bright and fresh All but the lecture room is carpeted with ingrain. The study is a neat little structure, too small to be a parsonage, but not in need of being enlarged this year at least, though the Busy Bee Society, composed of some forty young ladies, treat the "little preacher" very kindly. They are friendly rivals of the older ladies of the Ladies' Aid Society, in this respect, and joined with them and with the Christian Endeavorers in making him a handsome Christmas present. The Sunday School has nearly doubled its attendance in the past two months. There is an appreciable increase of activity and interest in all departments of the church. It is very encouraging. Hoping you are all as happy in your work as I in mine, I am with kindest regards. Most sincerely yours, FRANCIS O. WYATT. Chapin, Iowa, Jan. 30, 1899. Dear Class:- "Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight." I wonder how many of us have been guiltv of such sentiment this year. I'm afraid I have, not once but many times; still I have had a very pleasant year at home and, like most of you, I suppose, have been too busy for much idle reflection. 1 am teaching the sixth grade of the Harlan Public Schools-visitors always welcome. I remember last commencement one of the '97 girls was consoling some of us who had not succeeded in getting High School |