like the flowers of spring upon the bleak desolations of winter.

Let us then decide here, at this time, to go forth into this broad field of labor and hope and reward and peril! Let us be temperate, industrious, frugal, self-reliant; and whenever temptation shall cross our pathway and seek to allure us, let us pause and reflect, and repeat this one word, which shall be a talisman, or charm, to shield and protect us from all evil, and bear us through life in safety; and this word is Integrity.

Ex. 40.-THE TRUE GLORY OF A NATION.

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HE true glory of a nation is an intelligent, honest, industrious Christian people. The civilization of a people depends on their individual character; and a constitution which is not the outgrowth of this character is not worth the parchment on which it is written. You look in vain in the past for a single instance where the people have preserved their liberties after their individual character was lost. It is not in the magnificence of its palaces, not in the beautiful creations of art lavished on its public edifices, not in costly libraries and galleries of pictures, not in the number or wealth of its cities, that we find a nation's glory.

The ruler may gather around him the treasures of the world, amid a brutalized people; the Senate Chamber may retain its faultless proportions long after the voice of patriotism is hushed within its walls; the monumental marble may commemorate a glory which has forever departed. Art and letters may bring no lesson to a people whose heart is dead.

The true glory of a nation is the living temple of a loyal, industrious, upright people. The busy click of

the display of wealth or the luxury man who drives the plough or swings hi or with cunning fingers plies the tools truly the servant of his country as the senate or the soldier in battle.

The safety of a nation depends wisdom of the statesman or the brave The tongue of the statesman never sa tering to its fall; the sword of a warri destruction.

Would you see the image of true would show you villages where the cr the people are in common schools, w prayer goes heavenward, where the most priceless gift, faith in God.

Ex. 41.

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HE widespread Republic is the t Washington. Maintain its inde its Constitution; preserve its Union; let it stand before the world in all its and beauty, securing peace, order, equa to all within its boundaries, and shedd and joy upon the pathway of human the world, — and Washington needs n Other structures may fitly testify our v

this, this alone, can adequately illustrate his services to mankind.

Nor does he need even this. The Republic may perish; the wide arch of our Union may fall; star by star its glories may expire; stone by stone its columns and its capitol may moulder and crumble; all other names which adorn its annals may be forgotten; - but as long as human hearts shall anywhere pant, or human tongues shall anywhere plead, for a true, rational, constitutional liberty, our hearts shall inshrine the memory and our tongues prolong the fame of George Washington.

Ex. 42. THE DIGNITY OF LABOR. Hall.

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HE dignity of labor! Consider its achievements ! Dismayed by no difficulty, shrinking from no exertion, exhausted by no struggle, ever eager for renewed efforts in its persevering promotion of human happiness, "clamorous Labor knocks with its hundred hands at the golden gate of the morning," obtaining each day, through succeeding centuries, fresh benefactions for the world.

Labor clears the forest, and drains the morass, and makes the wilderness rejoice and blossom as the rose. Labor drives the plough, scatters the seed, reaps the harvest, grinds the corn, and converts it into bread, the staff of life. Labor gathers the gossamer web of the caterpillar, the cotton from the field, and the fleece from the flock, and weaves them into raiment, soft and warm and beautiful, the purple robe of the prince and the gray gown of the peasant being alike its handiwork.

Labor, diving deep into the solid earth, brings up its long-hidden stores of coal to feed ten thousand furnaces, and in millions of habitations to defy the winter's

iron thread, and stretching it fro continent to continent, through m the sea, realizes more than fancy constructs a chariot on which spec wind, compete with the lightning, thought itself.

Labor seizes the thoughts of Gen Science, the admonitions of Piety types, impressing the vacant page with life and power, perpetuating and diffusing it to all mankind. such achievements, will deny tha Labor?

VER the plum and apricot bloom and beauty more exq itself, a soft, delicate flush that ing cheek. Now, if you strike y and it is once gone, it is gone grows but once. The flower that ing, impearled with dew, arrayed shake it so that the beads roll off, water over it as you please, yet i again what it was when the dew from heaven.

On a frosty morning you may s

covered with landscapes, mountains, lakes, and trees, blended in a beautiful fantastic picture. Now, lay your hand upon the glass, and by the scratch of your fingers, or by the warmth of the palm, all the delicate tracery will be immediately obliterated. So in youth there is a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored, a fringe more delicate than frostwork, and which, when torn and broken, will never be re-embroidered.

A man who has spotted and soiled his garments in youth, though he may seek to make them white again, can never wholly do it, even were he to wash them with his tears. When a young man leaves his father's house, with the blessing of his mother's tears still wet upon his forehead, if he once loses that early purity of character, it is a loss he can never make whole again. Such is the consequence of crime. Its effects cannot be eradicated,

they can only be forgiven.

THE age of chivalry has gone. An age of humanity

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has come. The horse, whose importance, more than human, gave the name to that early period of gallantry and war, now yields his foremost place to man. serving him, in promoting his elevation, in contributing to his welfare, in doing him good, there are fields of bloodless triumph, nobler far than any in which the bravest knight ever conquered. Here are spaces of labor wide as the world, lofty as heaven.

Let me say then, in the language once bestowed upon the youthful knights, Scholars, jurists, artists, philanthropists, heroes of a Christian age, companions of a celestial knighthood, "go forth. Be brave, loyal, and