without reservation, or you would not now be able to exercise the
grandest of human faculties--to read, to glean the thoughts of the ages,
and to receive, without toiling through the rugged regions of
experience, the impressions and the inspirations which have come to man
through all his labors and his pains. Sir William Hamilton has well said
that implicit belief is at the foundation of all human happiness--the
knowledge of the mind, as well as the certainty of the future life.
The mind is rarely broad enough in youth to survey the field of life
with an impartial view. "The years creep slowly by, Lorena," was
written in the true youthful, spendthrift spirit.
"COAL-OIL JOHNNY"
was left, as he supposed, inexhaustible riches. He threw away his money
as many of us throw away our lives, and his money lasted him two years.
Had his life been equally at his disposal, he would have been in the
hands of the pale Receiver, Death, when his oil-wells passed to other
owners. Having so precious a pearl, therefore, as this life, let us make
its setting a thing of beauty. Let us invest our moments as