50 APRIL. 



How like our life is an April day ; changeable, fickle 

 and uncertain, composed of hopes and fears, joys and 

 sorrows, clouds and sunshine, smiles and tears : grieving 

 over some sorrow, bowed down by some calamity, we 

 are, perhaps, tempted to repine — but when the mis- 

 fortune presses hardest upon us, and the grief is nearest 

 to our hearts, when all around seems dark and hope- 

 less, the cloud rolls away — sunshine beams upon our 

 path — and the smile is upon our lip, while the tear dims 

 our eye; "nil desperandum," never despair — have 

 faith — faith in yourself — faith in your friends : 



" Have faith in one another, 



For should doubt alone incline, 

 It would make this world a desert, 



Where the sun would never shine. 

 We have all some transient sorrow 



That o'ercloudeth us to-day ; 

 But have faith in one another, 



And it soon shall pass away. 



" Have faith in one another, 



And let honour be your guide ; 

 Let the truth alone be spoken, 



Whatever may betide. 

 Though the false may reign a season, 



And oh ! doubt not but it will — 

 Have faith in one another, 



And the truth shall triumph still." 



T. E. Carpenter. 



Humility and industry must be the allies of genius — 

 industry, steady unflinching industry — not that kind 

 of fuming industry that tries to crowd the work of a 

 year into the space of an hour, attempting, like Pros- 

 pero's Ariel, to place a girdle round the earth in forty 



