10 THE ACORN feel as though I had very few friends. I was wounded a few months after Jack was killed and after several operations and long suffering, was taken home, but then it did not seem like home, for mother had died." Here the old man's voice sank down to almost a whisper and his head dropped on his breast. Sometime after when the soldiers came with music and flowers to honor their dead comrades they found the old man still on the bench but his soul had joined his comrades in another world. ALICE TAYLOR, '05. NEW TESTAMENT BOOKS. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Tell how the Savior's work got on; While the book called ACTS, by Luke Marks the course the Apostles took. Then we turn to the writings of Paul, His preachings, rebukings, boastings and all; First to ROMANS; then to CORINTHIANS two; The GALATIONS he scores for being untrue; In EPHESIANS, he says, in the Gospel of Grace, Apostles and prophets must have a place The organization must be complete, Every part supplied from the head to the feet; Then (as to the saints in PHILLIPPI was said,) Paths of Unity and Virtue and Truth must be tread. Next will be found in COLOSSIANS III. How Obedient should wives to husbands be. In second THESSALY, chapter two, He speaks of Apostacy coming ture; And to TIMOTHY, "In the faith his son," He tells how the work is to be carried on. TITUS and PHILEMON then come next, Followed by HEBREWS. Take your text From chapter five there you'll find That authority to preach isn't a whim of the mind We've counted Hebrews 'mong the writings of Paul, But perhaps that Apostle didn't write it at all. JAMES offers nothing to gospel shirks: He says, 'Faith's dead without good works." One of PETER'S epistles makes ministers rave, For it proves there's salvation beyond the grave. JOHN, the beloved disciple, writes three. "False teachers," says JUDE, "will punished be." REVELATIONS, the last in the Holy Book, Tells how the gospel the people forsook; How the angel should fly in the heavens bright To set all tongues and nations aright. The angel has come with the Sacred Key That opens the door to you and me; Accept the gospel, leave sin and strife, If you'd have pure joy and Eternal Life. MISSIONARY. THE ACORN 11 TO IMITATE IS HUMAN; TO CREATE, DIVINE. For the exposition of the latter clause we may look to the very first words of the Bible: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, etc.," all of which goes to prove the divinity, not only of God, but also of the creation. It is very easy to imitate the examples of some one else's creation, to imitate is human; but when we ourselves become creators, we show our divinity, our true relation to God. Man, it is said, may become as God, but he is never conspicuous until he begins to create, to set an example for humanity in general, to imitate. Shakespeare, Dickens, Edison, Samuel F. B. Morse, Benjamin Franklin, all of our distinguished authors and inventors, our scholars and masterminds, are creators. They are our earthly gods, and inasmuch as we cannot do without mental food, we owe these creators an everlasting debt, for a large part of our livelihood. Inasmuch as we follow their example, inasmuch as we imitate their principles, we are human. But everybody is human, and everybody imitates. The baby grows from the cradle to manhood and his character may be determined almost wholly by the surroundings that ornament or deface his path in life. His father is a staunch "Democrat," and Tom will lay down his life for the Democratic party; father smokes cigars and struts about like a gentleman; and why should Tom not smoke also? Considering the fact that Tom is a human being, and considering his tender years, Tom may do so with a perfect right. Of course the father may be at present reaping the results of the imitation or example that he followed in someone else; but at the same time father is creating an example for Tom- to follow and perhaps the beginning of this creation may be traced back for nine or ten generations. It is certain, tho, that all creators must have a knowledge of how to create; and to get this knowledge they must first be imitators. Before our coming Shakespeare can produce, he must first be somewhat acquainted with the capricious ways of the English language. It is certain that some one created the English alphabet, and to begin with, the writer must follow the examples set down in the form of A B C's, until he is thoroughly familiar with those characters that form the words of the English language. Next he must imitate the simple forms that are laid down in the beginner's grammar book. After having thoroughly mastered the comomn school grammar he, to a very small degree, is somewhat independent in his views of composition, and to the same degree, he is a creator. But that gift or talent of literary creation has just begun at this period to show signs of life; and it must be fed and cultured as a newly born infant. After the young writer has followed the examples of our standard grammarians, after he has imitated until he becomes conversant with the principles of the grammar school English, he must learn how to put these principles into use. He has, of course, learned the use of words, that is, their places, as nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, etc., and now he must study, not what is right or wrong, not what is proper and improper, but what is due to good taste