"Yours is to me the best company in the world.

The roads are in fine condition," he added as he took up the reins and they started down the avenue, "the fields and gardens along the way also, and the air full of the fragrance of flower and shrub.

Oh, on such a morning as this it seems a joy just to be alive and well!" "Yes," she responded, "oh, what cause for gratitude to the Giver of all good that you and I, and all our nearest and dearest in this world, are alive and well." "Yes, mother; attendance upon the sick and suffering has given me a higher appreciation of the greatness of the blessing of sound health than I had in earlier days.

It is saddening to witness suffering from accident and disease, but a great privilege to be able in many cases to relieve it.

That last makes me thankful that I was led to choose the medical profession." "And you have often an opportunity to minister to souls as well as bodies; one which I hope you do not neglect." "I am afraid I have sometimes neglected it, mother," he acknowledged with a sigh, "and at others performed it in a very halting and imperfect way.