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NAMES OF Noble Note.”

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Thomas Gresham, Sir Josiah Child, Sir Hugh Mydleton, Sir Dudley North; of such men as Humphrey Cheetham of Manchester, Edward Colston of Bristol, and Matthew Boulton of Birmingham; of such men as the Barings, the Gladstones, William Brown, James Ewing, the Barclays, the Gurneys, Fairbairn, Brassey, and George Moore, we feel that the annals of trade are scarcely less plentifully studded with noble names than those of art or literature, the "services" or the professions. If peace have its victories no less renowned than war, so have the pursuits of peace their heroes. He is said to be the truest patriot who can make two blades of corn grow where only one grew before. But he may also claim to be a patriot who helps to maintain that grand fabric of commercial enterprise so indissolubly associated with the fame and fortune of England.

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"Does the road wind up-hill all the way?
Yes; to the very end.

Will the day's journey take the whole long day?
From morn to night, my friend."

"Live a life of truest breath,

And teach true life to fight with mortal wrongs."

"We shall not perish yet.

-Tennyson.

If God so guide our fate,

The nobler portion of ourselves shall last
Till all the lower rounds of life be past,
And we, regenerate."

-Songs of Two Worlds.

"Every man has two educations-one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives himself."-Gibbon.

"A man so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that as a mechanism it is capable of-whose intellect is a clear, cold logic-engine, with all its parts of equal strength and in smooth working-order, ready like a steam-engine to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind."-Professor Huxley.

"The body has its rights, and it will have them. They cannot be trampled upon or slighted without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend, and cordial, dutiful helpmate."-Guesses at Truth.

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F we would run the race of life so as to "obtain " the prize, we must submit to a course of strenuous self-preparation. The athlete before he enters on his struggle undergoes a rigorous training. The soldier is useless for the purposes of war until he has learned to submit himself to discipline. Who are we that we should take up our life-work before we have made any efforts to fit ourselves for it? We all of us need preparation, and preparation which may be said to assume three aspects-the physical, the intellectual, the spiritual. On each of these it may be useful to say a few plain words.

1. Physical. The relations between the body and the soul are such that the condition of the former closely affects the well-being of the latter. It is a matter of Christian duty to attend to the physical health because the spiritual depends so largely upon it. The mind is often strong enough to conquer the body, and to assert its supremacy over the influences of disease; but, as a rule, an enfeebled or diseased physical frame means an enfeebled or diseased intellect, a weakened judgment, a disordered imagination. It may be that the mind prevails against the body, with all its maladies, for months or years, but suddenly there comes a time when the flesh conquers, and the spirit gives way unexpectedly. Some of Napoleon's later defeats have been with justice attributed to the baneful effects of an aggravated dyspepsia. Many an outburst of irritability and ill-temper is explained by a disordered stomach. Time was when it was thought an admirable thing to treat the body as a worthless and despised slave; when the student was exhorted to burn the midnight oil to the imminent ruin of his constitution; when, in truth, the pallid countenance, the bowed

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