which hold their annual meetings inthe spring or early summer months have usually experienced an added enthusiasm with the first meeting in the new century, 'The feeling is that out of the past with its failures, disappointments, and successes, have come lessons which will enable them, on the foundations of the pas', to build better things in the future." Probably there never was atime when there was as much genuine Christian enthusiasm, or much earnest Christian work done as the present. And never was there a time when it was more needed. Nev. ratline when vice and
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