ure, and when sorrow came to you they sorrowed
also. No matter if they have gone down in social scale and you up; no
matter if poverty and misfortune have come to them while prosperity
came to you; are they any less true for that? Are not their hearts as
warm and tender if they do beat beneath homespun instead of velvet?
Yes, kind reader, they are as true, loving and tender; don't forget old
friends.

Young men! Let the nobleness of your mind impel you to its
improvement; you are too strong to be defeated, save by yourselves.
Refuse to live merely to sleep and eat. Brutes can do this; but you
are men. Act the part of men. Prepare yourselves to endure toil.
Resolve to rise--you have but to resolve. Nothing can hinder your
success if you determine to succeed. Do not waste your time by wishing
and dreaming, but go earnestly to work. Let nothing discourage you.
If you have no books, borrow them; if you have no teachers, teach
yourself; if your early education has been neglected, by the greater
diligence repair the defect. Let not a craven heart or a love of ease
rob you of the inestimable benefit of self-culture.

Have the courage to face a difficulty, lest it kick you harder than you
bargained for. Difficulties, like thieves, often disappear at a
glance. Have the courage to leave a convivial party at the proper hour
for doing so, however great the sacrifice; and to stay away from one
upon the slightest grounds for objection, however great the temptation
to go. Have the courage to do without that which you do not need,
however much you may admire it. Have the courage to speak your mind
when it is necessary that you should do so, and hold your tongue when
it is better you should be silent. Have the courage to speak to a poor
friend in a seedy coat, even in the street, and when a rich one is
nigh. The effort is less than many people take it to be, and the act
is worthy of a king. Have the courage to admit that you have been in
the wrong, and you will remove the fact in the mind of others, putting
a desirable impression in the place of an unfavorable one. Have the
courage to adhere to the first resolution when you can not change it
for a better, and abandon it at the eleventh hour upon conviction.

THE BIBLE IN ODD-FELLOWSHIP

The Bible is a book for the understanding; but much more it is a book
for the spirit and for the heart. Many other kinds of learning are
found in the Bible. It is a manual o