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would collect double pay in cash for working after six o'clock 

 over a sick child? It is so absurd that your face wrinkles with 

 scorn at the thought. You do not want pay in money for that 

 kind of work. You would not have it if it were offered to you. 

 The most that any indulgent parent would ever care for from 

 the children for whom he has cared in their youth is kindness 

 and thoughtfulness in times of weakness and old age. It is the 

 wealth of affection. Does it pay ? Is there one who would say 

 that weeks or months or years of the tensest strain in caring for 



an unfortunate one in his own family did not pay ? For one smile, 

 for one moment of ease from pain of that loved one, for the suc- 

 cess in life of the one who has recovered from the disease, who 

 has become useful to others, we would go through it all again, 

 any of us, all of us. It pays, then. That is only one illustra- 

 tion. A thousand things in life pay in this way. They are 

 worth doing for themselves, they are worth doing for the feel- 

 ings that we have within us for having done them. 



Then there is another practical side to it. Suppose we have 

 no money. Suppose that many of these trials that have come 

 upon us have brought us into debt; and we have no one upon 

 whom we may call for assistance in a financial way. Then the 

 question must come, whether we will or not, does it pay m 

 dollars? Technical training pays in almost every other way 

 than in dollars. We may grant that. Does it pay to spend five 

 hundred dollars in travelling in various parts of the earth, to 

 stand in awe before those immense pyramids in Egypt, con- 

 structed of such immense blocks of stone that even the modern 

 engineer trembles to think of the possibility of reconstructing 

 them? Or to stand before some of the magnificent works of 

 nature, and hear the thunder of the cataract at Niagara or see the 

 mountains that lift their heads five thousand feet above the 

 earth ; to stand in admiration before the pictures and sculptures 

 that were made hundreds of years ago, possibly thousands of 

 years ago ; to w^atch the towering of the spires in some of those 

 magnificent cathedrals in Europe, like the Cathedral of Milan, 

 where the spires are like forest trees in number and beauty? 

 Does it pay to do all of those things, in other ways than in cash ? 



But it pays in cash to have a technical training. The physi- 

 can who takes pains to get the broadest education possible, who 

 takes the ordinary technical training which gives him his diplo- ' 

 ma and makes him a doctor of medicine, and afterward takes 



