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John Maynard attended an old-time, country schoolhouse. Most of the year he had drifted carelessly along, but in mid-winter some kind words from his teacher roused him to take a new start, and he became distinctly a different boy and made up for the earlier faults. At the closing examination, he passed well to the great joy of his father and mother, who were present. But the copybooks used through the year were all laid on a table for the visitors to look at, and John remembered that his copybook, fair enough in its latter pages, had been a dreary mass of blots and bad work before. He watched his mother looking over those books and his heart was sick. But she seemed, to his surprise, quite pleased with what she saw and called his father to look with her. Afterward, John found that his kind teacher had thoughtfully torn out all those bad, blotted leaves and made his copy book begin where he started to do better. To all who forsake sin, God offers a new chance and promises to blot out all old sins and make the record begin with the new start. --Rev. Franklin Noble
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