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an exact copy, but I was looking on the wrong side, and when the weaver 

 turned the pattern over it was perfect. She looked me in the face when 

 j&he turned it over and then looked at the pattern as though to say, "You 

 see it here." I thought how like our lives is that. Friends we draw all 

 the imperfections, the knots are today on this side, all the fringed ends 

 on this side; but I want to tell you friends we are weaving every single 

 ■day this wondrous web we call life. There are some threads we must 

 weave in, some knots if we would have a complete work; we must keep 

 our eye on the pattern. We get our heads so low and we go grumbling 

 along; we want to look up like men and women that remember that we 

 are made in the image of divinity itself. 



Weave in the colors; blue stands for truth; weave it in just and firm. 

 There is another thread, just like the color we see sometimes at sunset 

 with the red and the yellow that makes the royal purple, for that Is for 

 Jiope; weave it in with a strong hope. Once in a while there comes in a 

 life a black thread, that we have to weave in with sad hearts and tremb- 

 ling hand, but let's look up remem bering that it is in the design and God 

 himself is the designer, and then when weary work is finished and the 

 pattern completed and we see the glories of the other side, I hope we shall 

 •so have wrought that we hear the Great Designer say: "Well done good 

 and faithful servant, enter thou into the joys of thy Lord." 



Reading by Miss Neltnor. Encored. 



Appointment of Committee on Nominations: 



H, H. Hopkins of Hinckley, 111. 



S. G. Soverhill, Tiskilwa, 111. 



J. H. Coolidge, Galesburg, 111. 



E. J. W. Dietz, Downers Grove, 111. 



J. R. Biddulph, Providence, III. 



