A Happy Thought by William E. Howell

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 9, 1913

A Happy Thought

By William E. Howell

THIS is the season of the year when many happy thoughts and wishes come to us. It is a time when we like to clear our record of every unseemly thing and start with a clean page. The new year affords a fitting occasion for picking up broken threads and dropped stitches. We felt ambitious to make ourselves more useful, but put it off. We resolved and did not do. We started something good, but fainted by the way. How happy the thought that a kind Providence gives us one more opportunity to start something new or to start anew on something thought of or attempted, but not done!

I know individually a large multitude of ambitious, determined persons, young and old, who have been starting something new the last two months and more, and who are pushing it courageously forward. These are the new members of the Fireside Correspondence School, of Takoma Park, D. C. To these are still being added daily such as are determined to be something more than they are.

I know individually another noble class, our old members, who are continuing their work from previous years, some even who became charter members of the school three and a half years ago. Ah! that is what counts—keeping at a good thing from year to year.

I know individually a third honorable class, some of whom are not included in the first two: those who have completed one or more courses of work in our school. I am sure the reader will

want to see the faces of some of these in the only way we have seen most of them, yet without seeing feel to know.

These are only one here and there whose pictures we have, representing a large number who have done and are doing equally good work, with equal appreciation of its value.

The Happy Thought

It was a happy thought to establish the Fireside Correspondence School, of Takoma Park, D. C.

It is a happier thought that so many earnest-hearted persons, young and old, have been substantially benefited by it.

But the happiest thought of all, at this happy season of the year, is that it is not yet too late to register on the roll of its beneficiaries; for its doors stand ever ajar, and the perennial sign on the door-post reads, "Enter while you may."

W. E. HOWELL, Principal.