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all the same thing. It is only emphasizing the other side of 

 the same great question, and all coined into service, and put 

 to the work we have to do in life. It's the power to see 

 straight, to think rightly, to discriminate properly, the power 

 to see great things large, and little things small. That is the 

 test of an educated man or woman in any walk of life, and it 

 is a very good test, whether in the farmhouse or in the school- 

 room. It is a power which comes to us not simply as a 

 source of happin'ess, but as a solace in trouble, and an ever 

 present strength. 



Did any of you chance to see a little set of verses which 

 came out in the spring written by a great preacher in New 

 York, who has lately resigned his great pulpit on Fifth Avenue 

 in that city to become a teacher of students in Princeton 

 College, a poet as well as a preacher, and a lover and writer of 

 noble books? A man who loves to divide all of his time be- 

 tween the country in which he loves to lose himself, and the 

 teaching of boys and the writing of good literature. He is a 

 young Presbyterian called Henry Van Dyke. He wrote a 

 little poem called " The Two Schools," which, of course, at- 

 tracted the attention of a school teacher right away, and this is 

 what he said: 



" I put my heart to school in the world where men grow wise. 



' Go out,' I said, ' and learn the battle; 

 Come back when you have won the prize.' 



My heart came back again. ' Where is the prize ' I cried. 

 The world was false, and the prize was pain, 



And the teacher's name was Pride. 



" I put my heart to school in the woods where the wild birds sing. 



In the fields where the flowers spring, 

 Where the brooks run cool and clear. 



And the blue of Heaven bends near. 

 'Go out,' I said, 'you half a fool, 



Perhaps they can teach you here.' 

 My heart came back. 



' Why did you stay so long ' my heart, 

 And whither did you roam ? 



The answer came back with a laugh and a song, 

 ' I find this school is home.' " 



Ladies and gentlemen, those are the two schools. And 

 that is a very true, true story, as we know. And the answer 

 comes to us, happy enough to have had e. part in that world 



