sed, brave and
cautions and wary, ready in invention, skilful to command men and
evolve from a mob an army,--a nursery of gentlemen, reminiscent of no
lawless revels, midnight orgies, brutal outrages, launching out already
attainted into an attainting world, but with many a memory of
adventure, wild, it may be, and not over-wise, yet pure as a breeze
from the hills,--banded and sworn

"To serve as model for the mighty world,
To break the heathen and uphold the Christ,
To ride abroad redressing human wrongs,
To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it,
To lead sweet lives in purest chastity,
Not only to keep down the base in man,
But teach high thought, and amiable words,
And courtliness, and the desire of fame,
And love of truth, and all that makes a man."

SUCCESS IN LIFE

THE SUCCESSFUL

There are successes more melancholy than any failure. There are
failures more noble than success. The man who began life as a
ploughboy, who went from his father's farm to the great city with his
wardrobe tied up in his handkerchief, and one dollar in his pocket, and
who by application, economy, and forecast has amassed a fortune, is not
necessarily a successful man. If his object was to amass a fortune, he
is so far successful; but it is a mean and miserable object, and his
life would be a contemptible, if it were not a terrible, failure. We do
not keep this sufficiently in mind. American society, and perhaps all
society, is too apt to do homage to material prosperity; but material
prosperity may be obtained by the sacrifice of moral grandeur; and so
obtained, it is an apple of Sodom. A man may call out his whole
energy, wield all his power, and wealth follow as one of the results.
This is well. Wealth may even be an object, if it be a subordinate
object,--the servant of a higher power. Wealth may minister to the
best part of man,--but only minister, not master. Only as a minister
it deserves regard. When it usurps the throne and becomes monarch, it
is of all things most pitiful and abject. The man who sets out with the
determination to be rich as an end, sets out with a very ignoble
determination; and he who seeks or values wealth for the respect which
it secures and the position it gives, is not very much higher in the
scale; yet such people are often held up to the admiration and
imitation of American youth; and oftener still have those men been held
up for imitation who, whether by