Then do not begrudge long years of preparation and discipline; for these alone can give you the fundamentals of character, which insure success in this world and a safe journey to the next.

Jesus gave thirty years to preparation for less than three years' work. Do you wonder that his work lasts? Moses was eighty years in the tanner's pit of preparation. Is it strange that his life wears to this day? The apostle Paul devoted three years to solitary meditation in the Arabian desert before he began his Christian work. Does not that account for the enduring influence of his epistles? The gospel of John was fashioned after more than a half a century of Christian experience and service, and even the critics cannot break it or wear it out. -George Henry Hubbard.

THE hero is one who kindles a great light in

the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light. - Felix Adler.

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To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;

To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent;

To love, to bear, to hope till Hope creates

From its own wreck, the things to contemplate;
Neither to change, to falter, or repent;
This, like the glory Titan, is to be

Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free;

This is alone, Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.

LOVE, hope, fear, faith, — these make human

ity:

These are its sign, and note, and character.

ASSERT thyself; rise up to thy full height;

Shake from thy soul these dreams effeminate, These passions born of indolence and ease; Resolve, and thou art free.

So, let him wait God's instant, men call years;

Meantime, hold hard by truth and his great soul, Do out thy duty! Through such souls alone, God stooping, shows sufficient of His light For us i' the dark to rise by. And I rise.

So few workers, in proportion to the whole number, give themselves, loyally and unreservedly to their immediate duty, and if you thus give yourself, you cannot but succeed. Thousands of people in small positions whine because their talents are thrown away- because their ability has no elbow room. It is not elbow room they need; it is "elbow grease"; it is energy and strength. Their very whining shows they are too small for the place they are in now. When the right kind of a person has too small a place, he does his work so well as to make the place bigger; people see more in it than they ever saw before. - Le Baron Briggs.

GRANDEUR of character lies wholly in force

of soul—that is, the force of thought, moral principle, and love;

The greatest man is he who chooses Right with invincible resolution, who resists the secret temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burden cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on the truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering. William E. Channing.

I

HONOR any man who, in the conscientious

discharge of his duty, dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives, or the hearts of friends. Charles Sumner.

WHAT

men call luck

Is the prerogative of valiant souls,

The fealty life pays its rightful kings.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

THE

'HE worlds in which we live are two

The world "I am" and the world "I do."

- Lyman W. Denton.

Do thy part

Here in the living day, as did the great Who made old days immortal! So shall men, Gazing back to this far-looming hour,

Say: Then the time when men were truly men, Though wars grew less, their spirits met the test Of new conditions: conquering civic wrong;

Saving the new state by virtuous lives;
Guarding the country's honor as their own;
Defying leagued fraud with single truth;
Not fearing loss, but daring to be pure.

Anon.

WHOEVER fights, whoever falls,

Justice conquers evermore,

And he who battles on her side,
God, though he were ten times slain,
Crowns him victor glorified,

Victor over death and pain.

THIS HIS one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. St. Paul.

BROODING over the past, however foolish

and ruinous it has been, is useless, — only a waste of strength and opportunity. Nothing good ever comes of it. The Japanese have a proverb : "My skirt with tears is always wet,

I have forgotten to forget."