Don’t be an APE or a PAPA

Recently while checking the roll call book of one of our societies I noticed that the three letters which are used to designate the attendance record can also sometimes arrange themselves that they form the words in this heading. Absent, present, excused – APE! Present, absent, present, absent – PAPA! It’s not good. For, even as in listening to a sermon or address or in the reading of an article, the most benefit will be derived if the attention is fixed and uninterrupted. And so also in your...