MEN, my brothers, men the workers, ever reap

ing something new,

That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do.

For I dip't into the future, far as human eye could

see,

Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonders that would be. Alfred Tennyson.

It is

THE HE efforts and strivings of our threescore years are not adjusted to the scale of seventy; they are adjusted to the scale of immortality. This life is not the opera, it is the overture. not the book, it is the first chapter of the book. A man must be wakeful to his eternal destiny if he would know the magnitude of things.

ENDURING will-power in the development

of character and in the attainment of the Divine will is often the direct result of prayer and patient discipline. Anthony D. Evans.

SOME day, in years to come, you will be wrestling

with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow, your life. But the real struggle

of

is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made

except by steady, long-continued process.

IT

T is one thing for a man to deny himself, and a very different thing for a man to deny himself. No one wins success of any sort without some measure of self-denial. The champion of the prize ring has denied himself many things; and has sacrificed his intellectual and spiritual growth to his physical development. But this is not Christian self-sacrifice. Nor is the sacrifice of every natural inclination and the crucifixion of every noble desire in order to acquire wealth any more Christian. In each case one part of the man has been denied for the sake of another part.

He has not denied him

self, but only a fraction of himself. It is selfabnegation of which Christ is speaking. It is the death of self-will which he demands.

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have failed is to have striven, to have striven

is to have grown.

-Maltbie D. Babcock.

MY business is not to make myself,

But to make the absolute best of what
God made. -Robert Browning.

THOUGH truth appear in homely gray,
Her counsel ne'er despise;

She will be clad in light, one day,

To honor him who tries!

Ernest Neal Lyons.

So do I gather strength and hope anew,

For well I know Thy patient love perceives Not what I did, but what I strove to do And though the full, ripe ears be sadly few, Thou wilt accept my sheaves.

Anon.

But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail.

IT

Shakespeare.

T is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better — the constant improving that tells.

We often see young people who seem very ambitious to get on by leaps and bounds, and are

impatient of what they call the drudgery of their situation, but who are doing this drudgery in a very ordinary, slipshod way. Yet it is only by doing the common things uncommonly well, doing them with pride and enthusiasm, and just as well, as neatly, as quickly, and as efficiently as possible, that you take the drudgery out of them. This is what counts in the final issue. How can you expect to do a great thing well when you half do the little things? These are the stepping-stones to the great things.

The best way to begin to do great things is to improve the doing of the little things just as much as possible, to put the uncommon effort into the common task, to make it large by doing it in a great way. Many a man has dignified a very lowly and humble calling by bringing to it a master spirit. Many a great man has sat upon a cobbler's bench, and has forged at an anvil in a blacksmith's shop. It is the man that dignifies the calling. Nothing that is necessary to be done is small when a great soul does it. Orison Swett Marden.

PEACE is

an excellent thing, but principle

and pluck are better.

"I AM learning that what I choose is the real

A

me."

FREE will determined upon improvement, and a God ready to grant desired grace at any time, make it possible for all, whether young or old, to learn more perfectly the art of living.

Anthony D. Evans.

LOVE, hope, fear, faith, these make humanity; These are its sign, and note, and character. - Robert Browning.

HE who wishes to fulfil his mission must be a

man of one idea, that is, of one great overmastering purpose, overshadowing all his aims, and guiding and controlling his entire life. - Bate.

You need not choose evil; you have only to

fail to choose good, and you drift fast enough toward evil. You do not need to say, "I will be bad"; you have only to say, "I will not choose God's choice," and the choice of evil is already settled. -W. J. Dawson.

So here hath been dawning another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it slip useless away?