LOOK to the end, and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference to the opinion of your fellow-men, but also without fear of it. Liddon.

E was a hero, fighting all alone,

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A lonesome warrior,- never one more brave,Discreet, considerate, and grave.

He fought some noble battles: but he gave
No voice to fame, and passed away unknown.

So grandly to occasion did he rise,

So splendid were the victories he planned,
That all the world had asked him to command
Could it his native valor understand?

He fought himself, and, winning, gained the prize.

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For what I will, I will, and there an end.

Shakespeare.

THIS I beheld or dreamed it in a dream:

There spread a cloud of dust along a plain; And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged

A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords
Shocked upon swords and shields.

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Wavered, then staggered backward hemmed by foes. A craven hung along the battle's edge,

And thought, "Had I a sword of keener steel,That blue blade that the king's son bears, but this Blunt thing” He snapt and flung it from his hand,

And lowering crept away and left the field.

Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead,
And weaponless, and saw the broken sword
Hilt buried in the dry and sodden sand,

And ran, and snatched it, and with battle-shout
Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down,

And saved a great cause that heroic day.

E. R. Sill.

LIVER Wendell Holmes says that it does not

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matter so much where one stands as the direction in which he is moving. If you are working according to an intelligent plan; if you are trying to make everything you do a means of advancement to the goal you have in view; if your great ambition is, not to make yourself famous, or rich, or happy, but to make your life mean something in

God's world, -go ahead, for you are moving in the right direction and will reach your goal. But if you are looking for an easy place, or running away from hard work; if you are too listless, or indifferent, or careless to take stock of yourself, to decide upon the path you wish to take, to look carefully ahead, but not too far ahead, or to make out an intelligent plan of action and follow it as nearly as you can,- -no matter where stand you are not moving in the right direction.

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Orison Swett Marden.

O man is born into the world, whose work

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Is not born with him. There is always work And tools to work withal, for those who will: And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

Do your best, not because your work is worth it, but because you are. Whatever you are doing, you are making manhood. Half-hearted work makes only half a man. Slipshod methods mean loose principles. The only way to keep character up to the standard is by continually living up to the highest standard in all that you do. Young People's Weekly.

COURAGE, the highest gift, that scorns to bend

To mean devices for a sordid end.

Courage an independent spark from heaven's

bright throne,

By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, George Farquhar.

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COLUMBUS had faith in his enterprises. His faith inspired him with courage and perseverance sufficient to overcome difficulties and crown him with success.

In every life there are grand opportunities for discoveries and achievements. What we need is faith, courage, and perseverance.

William Burt.

THERE is something about allowing a strong

resolution to evaporate without executing it that has a deteriorating influence upon the character. It is the execution of a plan that makes stamina. Almost anybody can resolve to do a great thing.

If we could only make our highest moments permanent, what splendid things we would do in life, and what magnificent beings we should become; but we let our resolutions cool, our visions fade

until it is more convenient to execute them, and Orison Swett Marden.

they are gone.

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AS it long ago, or was it but yesterday, that we prayed for strength to perform a certain duty, to bear a certain burden, to overcome a certain temptation, and received it? Do we dream that the Divine force was exhausted in answering that one prayer? No more than the great river is exhausted by turning the wheels of one mill. Put it to the proof again with to-day's duty, today's burden, to-day's temptation. Thrust yourself further and deeper into the stream of God's power, and feel it again as you have felt it before, able to do exceeding abundantly. Remember and Henry van Dyke.

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THERE is always a golden age, soon to be behind us, which, at every period of our life, is before us-just as to-morrow's yesterday is still to-day. So we may all take courage. It is never too late to mend. -Lucy Elliot Keeler.

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are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that?

Come up with a smiling face.