Let the speaker provide for this meeting two pictures,—one a large one of a human face, and another, a picture of a soldier standing on guard, small enough so that it can be pinned up by the side of the lips of the face. Tell the boys and girls that this meeting is to show them how to place a sentinel at the doors of their mouths. What is this sentinel to stop? The children will quickly tell you. He must call “Halt!” to unkind words, to careless speeches, to sneers, and irreverence, and silliness, and lies, to exaggeration and slang.
What is the sentinel? The children may not be so ready to tell this, but a few questions will get them to say that the sentinel is our conscience.
And what is the gun that he is to hold? A few more questions will bring out the answer, prayer. That is the only thing that can promptly and efficiently cry “Halt!” to these evil things that come out of their mouths.