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Teaching always that work makes mind and character. Not 

 overwork, but employment that is worthy. Teach that whatever 

 dignifies life and makes that labor sweet, whatever awakens in us 

 an enthusiasm for heroic and just acts is a part of the grand whole. 

 The power to dare and bear for what is right, to stand firmly, 

 then go, these qualities are a large part of our recommendation 

 to the world and out of all struggles we may come with more 

 enduring fiber. We have heard it said so often that "brain 

 power rules the world," that we sometimes forget the action and 

 reaction between brain and muscle and the close relationship 

 between mind and body ? We scarcely have it in mind that mus- 

 cle fiber is doing its part in digestion and respiration and sending 

 the life-giving current to every organ, tissue and cell. That it is 

 important in controlling all mental processes that result in intel- 

 lectual efifort, some learn alas, too late. 



Emerson says : "See only that thou work and thou canst not 

 ■escape the reward. Whether thy work be coarse or fine, plant- 

 ing corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work done to thine 

 own approbation it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as 

 the thought." Ruskin says: "So with our youths. We once 

 taught them to make Latin verses and called them educated, now 

 we teach them to leap, to run and hit a ball with a bat and call 

 them educated. Can they plow? Can they sow? Can they 

 plant at the right time or build with a steady hand? Is it their 

 -effort to be chaste, knightly, faithful, lovely in word and deed? 

 Indeed it is with some, nay with many and they are the strength 

 ■of the English nation." May we, Americans, have not less, but 

 more of that real culture which is omnipotent over human des- 

 tiny. So that when the centuries have rolled away, our civili- 

 zation passed out giving place to another or others, we may be 

 seen clearly in the looking backward and felt for our strength, 

 health and symmetry, chosen and immortal for practical helps 

 through all after changing years. Yes, changing, continually 

 changing. 



God only is unchangeable, the same yesterday, today and for- 

 evermore. Go back to the morning of history and guided by 

 modern thought let the mind retire into those ages long past and 

 you have not found the birthplace of the Eternal Father. Then 

 as now. His mercy. His justice. His love and especially His 

 physical laws were the same without shadow of turning. 



