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LESSON ANALYSIS.

I. IsRAEL's IsIQUrrIEs.
I. Idols Worshiped: i
Come to Bethel, and tr~ansgress ~
Go and cry unto the gods which "
have chosen (Judg. 10 14).
&c set the one in Bethel. -. And.
the people went to worship Il King
And this thing became sin Il King
IS : 34).
My holy name shall ye no more pro
fame. with your idols Geek. 90
89).
III. TranssressIons Multiplied:
Come -. to GiIgal, and multiply
t~ransgression az.
Anon rrespassed more and more {:
Chron. 81 .23).
he. -. multiplieth his words againsi
God COB 81 81.
Our txansgressions are multiplied be.
fore thee lisa. 80 12).
Thou hast multiplied thine abomina-
lions (Exsk. Is 51).
III. Return Refused:
Yet have ye not returned unto me,
saith the Lord III.
81.
Yet he turned not to me, saith the
Lord (hae. 2: III.
5ut ye say, Wherein shall we returni
ct they have not returned unto the
Lord their God lHos. 7: 10).
L "Come to Bethel, and trans,
gress." ~ Seeming permission tc
nn; ~ Actual condemnation Of
sin.
2.'For this Iketh you, o 70 chill.
dren of Israel" ~ Israel's wrong
preferences; 81 Jehovah's com,
plets knowledge; (2) Jehovah'f
pointed accusation.
3. "Yet have ye not returned unto
me, saith the Lord. IA Israel's
departure; (2) lsrael's persistence;
a. Jehovah's lament.
II. IsRAE1's aEPRoops.
u. Reproved by Famine:
I also have given you. want G
bread 10y.
Tho Lord hath called for q famine q
AA6 " ~ %"HH EFf e
They are gaunt with want and famine
dob 80: 81.
I viii send 8 famine in the land (Amo.
6: III.
There arose . mighty famine in thai
country tLuka IS: 14).
II. Rsprovsd by PsstIIenoe.
have sent among you the pesti.
fence (10).
[ had. smitten thee and thy people
with pestllenoe lExod. 8: 15J.
The Lord shall make the pestilepce
cleave unto thee tDeut %: 21l,
he. !. gave their life over to the pesti.
lence (Psa. rs: 50).
| have punished Jerusalem. -. by the
famine Jer. A: 49,
I'll. Reprovsd by Calamity,
I have overthrow some,....as....
Sodom and Gomorrah Ql).
The day Of their calamity is at hand
lDeut 80: 35).
{ also viii laugh in the day of -FOUR
calamity prov. /: 26).
The day Of their calamity is come (Jer.
40: 21),
Saeh efA oSksA cAtlt auu the LORD
hath not done it? Amos s: 81.
/. II also have given you cleanness
Of teeth" ~ A SHINING people;
~ An angry God; 49, A severe
penalty. ID Sin; (2) Suffering.
2. IL have smitten you with blasting
and miidew." ~ God the object
Of sin; ~ Nature the instrument
Of penalty; 90 Man the recipient
of NO.
.. "Ye were as a brand picked out
Of the burning" ~ The fires of
penalty; (2l The deliverance of
grace; 8l-The imperiled branda2)
The saved brand.
N. IsRAE1is PENALTIES.
!. Penalties Assured:
This wiz ! DO unto thee, o Israel
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TEXT.
PLAN.

tAmos 4 4.ls. Memory versss' So,
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DAILY HoMn READINGS:

DAILY HOME HEADINGS:
M.-Amos 4: Alb. Israel often
reproved.
T.-Amos 8 lis. Wrath toward
Israel
WI Kings 10 1888. The sin
az Bethel.
PROV. 1908. Penalty for
disregarding reproof.
From. 10 1-21. Penalty for
disregarding reproof.
S.-Jonah 3 : Ito. Amendment
under reproof.
a-Luke Is : 11-24. Amendment
under reproof.
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LEsso I TorIo: ReproOf Witho,A
amendment
RI. Israel's IniquitIes, vs.. 1
5;I. g. vs.6 &1i.
Lr,son ourI,sr,l 2 IsIsels Reproofs, vs.
5. Israel's Penalties, vs.
T. u.
GOLDEN TEXT: He. that being often
reproped hardeneM his neck, shaLl
suddeniy be destroyed, and that With
out renaedy.-Prov. 20 Il.
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This viii ! DO unto thee, o Israel
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.

SUNDAY, MAY u ISyL
Israel Often Reproved.
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T,oweIl's Methods of Work,

James Russell Lowell had, in large
degree, the unmethodical habits that
come with genius. He abhorred details
and rules. He took up composition, cor
respondence, reading, physical culture
and other pursuits without the slightest
regard to order. He was prodigIous
reader and worked with all his might.
The production of any poem or essay of
length was carried on at high speed I'M
der severe mental tension and at the end
he was mentally and physically exhaust
ed. 1t usually took him a long time to
recover from the shock. When at his lit
erary labors, Mrs Lowell and her daugh-
ter kept watch over him constantly and,
by ingenious devices, broke up the con-
tinuity of his work and often prevented,
in this way, absolute prostration. Mr.
Lowell's favorite workshop was in one
of the largest rooms at Elmwood. He
discarded desks when writing and used
a pasteboard pad, which he held on his
knees. He thought long over the plans
of his poems and essays and had the
general outline finally fixed in his mind
before putting a line on paper. Then he
would first make skeleton of the sub
iect and fill it up in detail afterward. He
was very careful in composition and ev-
cry page of his copy was filled with
erasures and nterlineations.-GJo
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LONG HILL.

Occasionally we have seen items in this
paper in regard to the social enterprise
and ingenuity in the line of village i'm
provement of adjoining villages. In this
respect, this pleasant village is by no
means cleft" We watch with pride our
roads as they are being remodelled under
the hands of competent workmen; and
look forward with pleasure to the time
when we can travel without the usual an
noyances of stones and patched roads.
Also, we have found that our school is
increasing so in number that it was
thought best, last year, to grade it. This
idea has been acted upon and with such
success that it is, we think, a permanent
arrangement. Again, about year ago,
the Good Templar's hall was transferred
into the hands of the M. E. society and
has been enlarged aud remodeled so that
we can boast of good hall. Last, but
by no means least, are the street lamps.
Our streets, which have been so very
dark, are Illuminated by nearly two doz-
en- lamps, making complete transfor-
nation, and we understand that there are
more to follow. The people here, per-
haps, move little slower than some 9th
ers we hear of, but we are not by any
means cleft" nor do we intend to be.
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STRATFORD.

Mrs Frank Curtis has visited her sister,
Mrs Judson of Orange, Mass.
Mrs Sarah Bristol has been ill.
J.P. Quire has made iron pickets for
fencing for himself and Henry F..
Meachen.
John Graham has moved to the Hum
iston tenement ON Strawberry hill.
John Williams was fined So and costs
for not paying his dog tax.
Miss Ida Osborn will teach in Water
town, Miss Lena Dorman in Bantam.
William Mitchell is carting water from
Mill river to feed the boiler of E. N. Sip
perley at the well he is drilling on the
Hand property. Mr. Sipperley reached a
depth of 40 rocky feet without finding
water and is still pounding away.
Two cars of handsome cut stone from
Philadelphia arrived for door and win
dow trimmings at Breakwater, last
week. The stone was carted by Alex
Washington.
Miss Edna Kelsey has visited Miss
Aldrich of Long Island.
Frank P. Sherwood, Misses Lille and
Estelle Sherwood have attended the
canoe retreat at Lake Champlain.
A son has been born to Peter Keller
Miss Lacey will open her school, Sep
TENDER IA.
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wEsTPORT.

Miss Nellie Elwood will teach in East
Saugatuck, Miss Lena Morehouse in West
Saugatuck with Miss Alice M. Sherwood
as assistant, Miss Mary E. Taylor in
Compo with Miss Ophalia Taylor as as
sstant, Miss Lucy F. Barton in Green's
Farms, Miss E. st j. Chapman in East
Long Lots, Miss Lucy Elwood in West
Long Lots, Miss Margaret Clear in Cross
Highway, Miss Sadie Parsells in North
district. The schools will open on Tues
day, Sth.
Christ church has invited Rev III. N.
Wayne of Burlington, N. j., to become
it's rector at salary of $1,000 and the
rectory.
Mrs Hezekiah Lyon has moved to
Bridgeport and Charles Muzzey has oc-
cupied the place that she left.
Miss Minnie barrow of Brooklyn has
visited Mrs George Jelliff.
Rev o. C. Diekerson preached at the
Saugatuck M. E. church, Sunday.
The widow of Rev John X. Williams,
who has been in Wilton, makes her
home with Mrs Eliza Jones.
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whether it will ever be fit for use again,
1 cannot say. Godfrey & Willis of
Bridgeport, at whose stable the horse
was left by Wheeler, told me that it must
not be used at present; that, with rest
and good care, it might recover some
what. But it had been shamefully abus-
ed. On it's sides and even under its jaw
were huge Jumps, evidently the result of
kicks; the skin had in places been brok-
en- and bleeding sores produced" Jacox
and his wife took their four-year-old boy
from Greenfield with them, but it is said
that they abandoned him. Jacox is said
to have been in Sing Sing and other pris-
ons.
Mrs Lewis G. Bradley and Mrs George
Sherwood have been at Saratoga.
Simon c. Bradley has sold hand
some pointer dog to Horace Pigg of
Warren street, Bridgeport. Mr. Bradley
has number of fine dogs at his kennels,
both of his own and boarders. He will,
as usual, go South with his dogs about
October l.
Benjamin Franklin Pease of Perry
City, N. Y, has spent several days with
his son, Simon Pease.
Some of the finest potatoes raised in
Greenfield were dug by Simon Pease.
They are Burbanks; large, smooth and
toothsome. Ten bushels were dug and
of these about six bushels were large
enough to weigh from II to II ounces
each.
DrJ. B. Nissan and Miss Grace Nissan
are home again.
Miss Maggie Nichols is with Isaac b.
Nichols of Deerfeld.
Invitations were issued, last week, for
a birthday party at Mrs Charles 2. Brad
ley's, Wednesday, I'd. The party, from
till 8, was in honor of Mrs Bradley's
father, George Burr, who has attained
his SD birthday. Many from Green
field and elsewhere attended the party
and heaped congratulations and good
wishes upon Mr. Burr.
B. F. Pease has been looking at the
farm of the late Mrs Mary p. Hull, with
a possible view of buying.
Principal Parker Of the academy is
expected at Oliver Burr's, this week Sat-
urday.
A valuable Jersey bull has been sold
by Verna farm to E. Brewer of Hocka-
mum, Conn.
Ensilage is being fed in large quanti-
ties at Verna farm dairy, the pasture
having been early exhausted by the
drought. There is nearly six weeks
supply in the silo.
Miss Lottie Lyon has visited her sister,
Mrs Henry Craft.
The family of John Nichols have re-
turned.
Chris, the German who occupies Frank
Banks's tenant house, has traded horses.
Mrs Clara Selleck, Misses Emma and
Sadie Selleck, who have been visiting
Greenfield and Southport friends, re-
turned to their Danbury home, last
week.
Mrs Frank Banks of Cross Highway
has visited her aged grandmother, Mrs
William Buckley.
Rufus Atherton spent Sunday with
his brother in Bridgeport.
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WOODBURY..

The two Congregational Sunday
schools had q union picnic at Quassa-
paug. They had an enjoyable time,
though there were slight showers in the
forenoon. About 200 attended.
Mrs Almira Leavenworth, aged 81, died
at her home in the Willie, on Friday.
The case of Libbie Armstrong Roberts
against Willis d. Smith was tried before
the common pleas court, Monday and
Tuesday. The court took the papers and
reserved decision. Huntington q War
ner for plaintiff, Cothren for defendant.
Also case of Town of Woodbury.; Marsh
of New Milford for plaintiff and Hunt
ington & Warner for defendant.
Nathaniel Cothren of New York has
returned from his visit ia Woodbury..
There was an elopement in stad old
Woodbury., last week Monday. The high
contracting parties were Nathaniel Chat
field, complexion coal black, and the
wife of Theron A. Sanford, color white.
character to be- inferred from the trans
action. Sanford is broken-down PEN
sioner. Chatfield was arrested, Sunday
morning.
Lewis McEwcn and sister Fannie visit
ed F. f. Hitchcock. last week.
Mrs Thomas Lord of Chicago is at the
Mapleton.
John Belts of Terryville is with his
sister, Miss Sarah Belts, in very feeble
health. 1t is feared he may not recover.
d. Curtiss' Sons have rush of orders
in their line.
Mrs FL. d. Curtis was favored with a
pleasant surprise party, last week.
Edward Abrams has gone to Boston
and Bar Harbor.
Miss Clara Patterson, who has visited
Miss Daisy Curtiss, has returned to her
New Jersey home.
Mrs Jesse Smith and son of Hartford
visited Henry C. Smith.
Miss Carrie Cowles has been in New
Hampshire.
Mrs George Atwood has moved into
her house near the Town hall.
Thomas French has been granted a
pension through the agency of William
COthren.
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BRIDGEPORT.

A large addition has been built at the
Warren street wing of the Warner Broth
ers' corset factory. 1t is three stories
high and will be used as a store room.
An addition has also been built on the
Atlantic street front for offices.
The Wood-Hurley bribery joke came
before Judge Walsh, Saturday. in the
city court. The case was adjourned to
give the Judge time to consider the case.
Charles Logan, the uptown grocer,
has married Miss Mary Brown of Port
jefferson.
Horace Pigg of Warren street is one of
the successful amateur gardeners OF the
city and is especially happy in raising to-
matoes.
Rev Fl. A. Davenport will occupy his
pulpit in the Presbyterian church, next
Sunday.
After having stabbed him in the back,
the Post gives Alderman Thomas w.
Wood the grand bounce. No one defends
the alderman's political suicide, but there
is manly way of handling even suicides.
John B. Clark builds a four-family
house for John McKeon, Grand and James
streets; Jones & Hoffman George Ma
lone's, Harral avenue and Pequonnock
street.
Richard Howell is managing editor of
the Sunday Herald.
The Un;on has grown to seven columns,
also increasing their length.
Contractor Donovan says that he would
not take the garbage contract again for
SIS, 900.
Louise H., wife of Councilman Robert
Quinn, died at GIG SeavieW avenue, last
week, while her husband was in the
South. She was 80.
Spurrsd on by Mayor Marigoid, the
board 81 health met Contractor Donovan,
last week, to consider the garbage qnes-
ton. Mr. Donovan said that he had "a
garbage carts at work. where the city
had but seven or eight, last year and ne
was profuse in promises to remedy al
complaints, agreeing to put on as many
carts as the board of health ordered, Il
found responsible for future neglect BY
the mayor, DR. Young or the health OIL
Ger.
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SOUTHPORT.

No hearing has been had on the appli-
cation of Timothy Hanley to sell liquor
at the O'Dwyer place, though the appli-
cation was made and a remonstrance
prepared weeks ago.
A wagon house l2x30 feet has been
put up by Dea Elijah Gray.
Alice May and Sophie Grammar have
returned from their visit with relatives
in New Haven.
Why cannot the Southport band be in
duced to give few concerts in the open
air before cold weather? The band,
which has been practising, is able to
give music of high order. Home tai
ent should be encouraged.
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The Sermon.

In the book of Common Sense you Will
find these words, "Remember the harvest
days.o 1t would hardly seem as though
such advice was necessary to the farmer
or the reaper. Even the business man
thinks of making money while the sun
shines. But, after all, there is sound adj
vice, beloved, in the words of the text.
Oar papers are telling us that there is
very large wheat crop. 1t must be gar
nered in and wise is he who cuts his grain
at the right time. Our farmers have just
secured their hay crop and consider him
foolish who lets the grass grow woody
and hard before it is stored in the barn.
They have remembered the harvest days
and the we'll built NOW gives promise of
food for the cattle during the days OF
Winter. But there are other harvests
than those of grain and hay. There are
the harvest days of memory and store
house of Heaven. Are you remember
ing those harvest days. Yesterday, you
met friend in great trouble. He came
to you for help. You might have left in
the harvests of memory a kind deed
which you would always be glad to look
back upon. But you did not. You sell
fishly turned away to your own pleasure
and the poor man went on his way with
the burden still there. You let the little
child of the street. cry on without one
word of comfort. You turned your back
on sad call from one of Gods little
ones. All, remember the harvest days of
memory. You can make each day so
full and rich in loving kindness to man
kind that the days of the past will be full
of blessed pictures and angelic visions.
1t is Richter who tells US that sRecol-
lection is the only paradise from which
we cannot be turned out" Let the har-
vest days of kindness, then, see many
sheaves gathered for future joy. But
Jesus Christ tells us of the heavenly har
vest day. He says, clay up for your
selves treasures in Heaven" 1t is not
what man leaves behind him, but what
he has sent before him that counts in that
harvest. Our faithfulness to our fellow
men may turn them Godward. Our
words of exhortation may lead soul
from sin. We may give of our silver to
the Lords cause, so that in his inscrut-
able providences our poor gift shall be
transmitted into the gold of Heaven.
Yea, by faith in God, we ourselves may
be preparing for the heavenly harvest.
Hence, obey the text, ''Remember the
harvest days"
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j. F. Griffin, formerly of Newtown, has
opened business college at the Studio
building, 1872 Fairfield avenue.
The schools will not open until next
Tuesday, Sth.
Supt e. f. Lashcr of the horse rail
road has bought the Stratford avenue
home of Henry NJ. Hills of the Post and
is to make it his own home.
George B. Bunnell is highly elated over
his success in securing the Bridgeport
theater, which will be known hereafter
as Bunnell's Bridgeport theater. The
raising of the house, together with the
liberal and general improvements and en-
largements in the way of greater seating
capacity, modern system of lighting, dec
orations and so forth, will tend to make
it one of the most popular theaters on the
New England coast line. Only firstclass
attractions, such as those played at his
Hyperion theater, will be booked in this
house and, in connection with the New
Haven theater,it will afford special facil-
tiles to travelling companies DESTROYS of
playing two good towns in quick success
sion.-[ Mirror.
William II. Hoy of the East End went
fishing, August 26 and when he returned
declared he had caught 20 bluefish three
hard and three soft shell crabs; an eel
weighing three pounds; two founders,
each weighing seven pounds; about 100
cunners and Il peck of escallops.-[ Post.
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GREENFIELD HILL.

w. Stanley Judd and wife have visited
Andrew Sherwood.
Mrs William Bradley and Miss Susan
w. Nichols have arrived home from Sar-
atoga and the mountains.
Oxen of Rev d. n. Prentice, which
were lost for many days, have finally
been found, safe and in good condition.
They were found by North Bridgeport
man in the pasture with his oxen, having
evidently wandered there from the hill.
Frederic Bronson and Miss Eliza
Bronson have returned to Verna man
sion.
About six weeks ago, a valuable dia-
mond brooch, owned by Mrs Frederic
Bronson, was lost. The loss was adver-
tised in the BEE and elsewhere and re-
ward of 1875 offered for its return. 1t
could not be found, however and search
was abandoned. One day last week,
brooch was picked up near the poultry
house by Sam, son of George Skeen. He
at first thought it was a piece of cheap
jewelry, but a wondrous blaze of light
when the sun struck the diamonds unde-
ceived him and he at once restored it to
Mr. Bronson.
Last weeks prayer meeting was held,
Wednesday, instead Of Friday evening
and was led by Oliver III. Meeker.
Many from Greenfield and not a few
from Fairfield went to Glen Island, last
Friday, on the Myndert Starin. An en-
joyable time was had, neither main nor
extreme humidity spelling the pleasure
of the day. The excursion was under
the auspices Of the Y. T.. s. C. E. of the
Congregational church.
Renovations having been completed at
the church, it was ready for service, Sun
day.
Mrs b. b. Banks has suffered terribly
with sciatica but is improving somewhat,
though still weak and suffering. DIR Dun
ham says that it was the worst case of
sciatica he ever attended.
Three more of the Bronson sheep on
theGould farm have been bitten by dogs.
Five yearling Jerseys, three heifers and
two bulls, were brought from the Gould
farm to better pasture nearer home, a
few days ago, by Dairyman DAZZLING.
One of the bulls was sold; the other four
are dead, poisoned, probably by eating
paint skins, or the dregs left in the kegs
and pots of paint. Veterinarian McClel-
Ian OF Bridgeport was called, but could
not arrive until after the cattle were
dead. A post norton examination show
ed that the cattle were filed with lead
poison. All four were valuable register
ed Jerseys.
ssHaving recovered what Is left of my
horse and being satisfied that Jacox il
now beyond the Jurisdiction Of the State,
i shall take no further steps to hunt
down the thief said George Banks
ssNor do think that Wheeler, the Easton
blacksmith, will pursue Jacox, for his
horse, also, ! am given to understand
has been restored. It is the Bethel man,
with whose horse Jacox escaped into New
York State, who will hunt down the vii
lain. The horse Is Ia bad condition
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THE SECULAR PULPIT.

God is light.
Be true and you will know the truth.
Blessed is he who knows how to use
his enemies for his own growth, for evil
thoughts, after they are sprung up, do
bear harvest of evil deeds.
Let every man look on the things of
his neighbor that he may find that which
he may commend; but let him look ON
his own things, that he may know which
to condemn.
And l beheld, and 10 men thought more
of winning the approval of others than
they did the approval of God and of their
own souls. Verify, this is vanity!
When the soul is at ease, it may be
amused, but hungry soul wants bread.
-[Evans.
The best helps to growth in grace are
the i'll usage, the affronts and the losses
which befall u.s. Wesley.
To character and success, two things,
contradictory as they may seem, must go
together, humble dependence and manly
independence; humble dependence on
God, and manly reliance on self
[Woodsworth.
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
find that doing the will of God leaves
me no time for disputing about His
plans George Macdonald.
When you find yourselves oyerpower-
ed, as it were, by melancholy, the best
way is to 60 out and do Something kind
to CONGRATULATIONS.
The gardener knows that where he
puts the knife, there will follow the fruit.
And blessed are they whom the heavenly
husbandman prunes, if, when he cuts,
there is bud behind the knife.
''May not cry then?' Yes, just as the
night does and in the morning it is dew.
There is not flower that does not look
sweeter for it. True tears make souls
beautiful. True sorrows are, after all,
but the seeds out Of which come fairer
joys.
The Christians life boat is furnished
with two oars, faith and works. If he
attempts to make the voyage without us
ing both together, he will be very apt to
meet with shipwreck.
There was not a rams horn at the
siege of Jericho that made any noise, nm
less some one blew it. So with our OPP
portunities for doing good; nothing
will be accomplished by them unless we
make use of them Rams Horn.
One Of the Christian Fathers says OF
Jesus "Christ hnngered as man and
fed the hungry as God. He was hungry
as man and yet He is the bread Of life
He was athirst as a man and yet He says
let him that is athirst come to Me ard
drink He was weary and is our rest
He pays tribute and is a king; he is d
devil and casts out devils; prays and
hears prayer; weeps and dries our tears
is sold for 80 pieces of silver and redeems
the world; is led as sheep to the slaugh
ter and is the Good Shepherd
There are sweet surprises awaiting
many an humble soul fighting agains,
odds in the battle of a seemingly com
monplace life.
II you have built castles in the air
your work need not be lost; that II