We all have our discouraged days, when things do not go well. The young people fail in their lessons at school, although they have studied hard and really have done their best. The mothers are tried in their household work. The children are hard to control. It has seemed impossible to keep good temper, to maintain that sweetness and that lovingness which are so essential to a happy day. Try as they will to be gentle, kindly, patient, their minds are ruffled. They come to the close of the long, unhappy hours disturbed, defeated, dis-couraged. They have done their best, but they feel that they have really failed. They fall upon their knees with only tears for a prayer. But if they will lift up their eyes, they will see on the shore of the troubled sea of their little day's life the form of one whose presence will give them strength and confidence, and who will help them to victoriousness. Before his sweet smile the shadows flee away; at his word new strength is given, and after that, work is easy and all goes well again.