d you must follow out what you are at--and it sometimes
is at the expense of health. Only remember at all times to get back
as fast as possible out of it into health, and regard the real
equilibrium as the centre of things. You should always look at the
_heilig_, which means holy, and holy means healthy.

Well, that old etymology--what a lesson it is against certain gloomy,
austere, ascetic people, that have gone about as if this world were
all a dismal-prison house! It has, indeed, got all the ugly things in
it that I have been alluding to; but there is an eternal sky over it,
and the blessed sunshine, verdure of spring, and rich autumn, and all
that in it, too. Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour
face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker
has given. Neither do you find it to have been so with old Knox. If
you look into him you will find a beautiful Scotch humour in him, as
well as the grimmest and sternest truth when necessary, and a great
deal of laughter. We find really some of the sunniest glimpses of
things come out of Knox that I have seen in any man; for instance, in
his "History of the Reformation," which is a book I hope every one of
you will read--a glorious book.

On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may
be, and not be afraid of it--not in sorrows or contradiction to yield,
but pushing on towards the goal. And don't suppose that people are
hostile to you in the world. You will rarely find anybody designedly
doing you ill. You may feel often as if the whole world is obstructing
you, more or less; but you will find that to be because the world
is travelling in a different way from you, and rushing on in its own
path. Each man has only an extremely good-will to himself--which he
has a right to have--and is moving on towards his object. Keep out of
literature as a general rule, I should say also. (Laughter.) If you
find many people who are hard and indifferent to you in a world that
you consider to be unhospitable and cruel--as often, indeed, happens
to a tender-hearted, stirring young creature--you will also find there
are noble hearts who will look kindly on you, and their help will be
precious to you beyond price. You will get good and evil as you go on,
and have the success that has been appointed to you.

I will wind up with a small bit of verse that is from Goethe also,
and has often gone through my mind. To me it has the tone of a modern