THE CALL OF THE LAND 



"Ceaseless ache! inane endeavor! 



What boots all the fierce unrest ! 

 Peace like a river, 



Come, oh come and fill my breast!" 



But from a social point of view it is cer- 

 tainly desirable that any life having value 

 should continue so long as its efficiency 

 remains. The ingenuous man, though not 

 prizing length of days as a good to himself, 

 must still cherish length of days that he may 

 perform maximum service for his kind. 



When society has matured a man, edu- 

 cated him and succeeded in imparting to 

 him a certain value power to enrich men's 

 general estate, it cannot but be a pity for his 

 life to end in the midst of its prime and 

 vigor. His gain, if death prove such, must 

 be society's loss. He should solemnly vow, 

 as did one of old, "All the days of my 

 appointed time will I wait, till my change 



come." 



Health is required that men's blood may 

 contain the necessary iron that we may 

 possess the hardness or hardiness of good 

 soldierhood grit, sand. We should rather 



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