nds of temptation and the rains of selfishness
cannot move.

Robert Bright is happy because he is good. Tom Spicer, now in the
state prison, is unhappy,--not _because_ he is in the state
prison, but because the evil passions of his nature are at war with
the peace of his soul. He has fed the good that was within him upon
straw and husks, and starved it out. He is a body only; the soul is
dead in trespasses and sin. He loves no one, and no one loves him.

During the past summer, Mr. Bright and his lady took a journey "down
east." Annie insisted upon visiting the State Reform School; and her
husband drove through the forest by which he had made his escape on
that eventful night. Afterwards they called upon Sam Ray, who had been
"dead sure that Bobby would one day be a great man." He was about the
same person, and was astonished and delighted when our hero introduced
himself.

They spent a couple of hours in talking over the past, and at his
departure, Mr. Bright made him a handsome present in such a delicate
manner that he could not help accepting it.

Squire Lee is still as hale and hearty as ever, and is never so happy
as when Annie and her husband come to Riverdale to spend the
Sabbath. He is fully of the opinion that Mr. Bright is the greatest
man on the western continent, and he would not be in the least
surprised if he should be elected President of the United States one
of these days.

The little merchant is a great merchant now. But more than this, he
is a good man. He has formed his character, and he will probably die
as he has lived.

Reader, if you have any good work to do, do it now; for with you it
may be "NOW OR NEVER."

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