out, to
the young men just starting in practical life, some things less general
in their scope than the other thoughts spread forth in the book. The
necessity of arming our youth with those qualities which lead to
business success has made me confident that this attempt would be
approved by the general reader.

Wherever a writer versed in the deep mysteries of the heart has left his
thoughts on record, and they have fallen under my eye, I have eagerly
chained them to my humble chariot, always, when possible, giving the
authorship of the idea. The value of a thoroughly good admonition is
frequently enhanced by the knowledge that it comes from the mouth of a
thoroughly good man.

CONTENTS.

Preface.

The Hopes of To-Morrow Must Have a Foundation in what We Are Doing
To-Day--The same Thing True of Our Hopes of the Next Life--The Hard-Pan
Series. Page 3.

The Golden Censer.

The Golden Censer which Hangs in the Temple of Life--The Palace of the
Soul--The Alarm-Bell Called Conscience--George Washington--The Soldier
in Battle--Goldsmith's Pastor--Duty the Reason for Living--Duty the
Stern Daughter of the Voice of God--Victor Hugo's Maxim--A Celebrated
Piece of Verse. Page 21.

The Flights of Time.

We Are Old Before We Know It--We are Then Shocked and Regretful--Need of
Impressing the Young with This Truth--A Golden Thought--How We Learned
to Read--Lorena--Coal-Oil Johnny--Get Interest on Your Own Money Instead
of Paying Interest on Other People's--You Thus Save Double Interest--You
Wish to Succeed--Put out Your Ideas at Interest--"Lost!" an
Advertisement--Haste and Waste--Get to Bed Early and Cheat Rheumatism
and Neuralgia--Time the Corrector of Fools--The Mill Never Grinds with
the Water that Has Gone Past. Page 25.

Home.

Byron, Thomson, and Payne's Sweet Thoughts--A Grand Thought in a Grand
Syllable--The Murderer in His Cell--The Letter from Home--The Thatch of
Avarice--The Man Who Wrote "Home, Sweet Home," Had no Home--Dr.
Johnson--The Halo that Surrounds the Word--The Long-Ago is Hidden in
It--Rembrandt and His Sister--Dickens--The Cottage of a Godly Man--Kings
Have no Homes--Democritus--The Old Home Was Happy Because We Were
Shielded--We Must, in Our Turn, Shield the Little Ones--Suffer Little
Children--Get a Home--See that Your Children Get Settled. Page 31.

Duties of Parents.

Thoughts Intended Especially for Their Ears--Children a
Blessing--Through Our Children We Become Immortal