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<h2><SPAN name="IF_I_WERE_A_BOY_AGAIN" id="IF_I_WERE_A_BOY_AGAIN" /><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_68" id="Page_68"></SPAN>[68]</span>IF I WERE A BOY AGAIN</h2> <p>Chicago University, one of the great schools of America and the world, received its impetus from the tireless energy and brilliant leadership of its great President, Dr. Harper. After his death there was found among his papers a memorandum which read as follows:</p> <p>"If I were a boy again I would strive to find out from goods books how good men lived.</p> <p>"If I were a boy again I would study the Bible even more than I did. I would make it a mental companion. The Bible is a necessity for every boy.</p> <p>"If I were a boy again I would more and more cultivate the company of those older whose graces of person and mind would help me on in my good work. I would always seek good company.</p> <p>"If I were a boy again I would study the life and character of our Saviour, persistently, that I might become more and more like unto him."</p> <p>Now President Harper was a great, wise and good man. If he felt that he would do certain <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_69" id="Page_69"></SPAN>[69]</span>things were he a boy again, surely the rest of us could improve upon our boyhood years had we the chance.</p> <p>If I were a boy again I would be more attentive to Church and Sunday School and the things that were taught me there. If I were a boy again I would get my day school lessons with greater care. If I were a boy again I would be more obedient to and more thoughtful of my parents.</p> <p>Why should I talk like this, for I cannot be a boy again? But you boys have your boyhood. It is a present reality. Let President Harper teach you. Be the boy he pictures.</p> <p>MEMORY VERSE, <i>Psalm</i> 103: 1-5</p> <div class="blockquot"><p>"Bless the Lord, O my soul ... who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's."</p> </div> <p>MEMORY HYMN [678]</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span><i>"By cool Siloam's shady rill."</i><br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />

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