HERDS AND FLOCKS AND HORSES. 



THE EASIEST ROAD TO ACHIEVEMENT IS ALONG 

 THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE. 



HOW often do we find a young man, who, either from stress 

 of circumstances, from the well meant but ill advised 

 wishes of a father, the arbitrary ruling and powerful 

 influence of guardians, bachelor uncles or old maid aunts, 

 pressed into some profession or business for which he is totally 

 unfitted, and against which his natural impulses and desires 

 revolt, and which, while bravely as he may accept the inevita- 

 ble, and nobly as he may work to make a success of that which 

 is forced upon him, an unseen hand seems silently to point, 

 and an invisible magnet attract him along a road he craves to 

 follow but must not go. 



Thousands upon thousands of splendid young men, manly, 

 level headed fellows, have been prevented from developing the 

 best there is in them from this very cause, and made to pursue 

 a course that has been against their natural tendencies and 

 best judgment, and who, after honestly working out their very 

 souls, have never succeeded in doing anything more than or- 

 dinary, while, if they had been permitted to follow the normal 

 and natural tendencies of their own inclinations, would have 

 blossomed into something worth while, and left behind them 

 names and records that would have been written down. 



Not only would they have done this, but they would have 

 done it with a fraction of the labor, an atom of the wear and 

 tear, and with a pleasure and delight that would have made 

 their lives a dream in comparison, and their path along a 

 flower-grown lane, instead of over an uphill road strewn with 

 rock and boulders. 



With the normal youth of courage and constitution, with 

 a clear perception of what life means, and the tremendous odds 

 in favor of his endeavors if he pursues the right course, with 

 this great big, generous world before him, it is a crime to try 

 and wean him away from that which nature has best fitted 

 him for, and his inborn aptitude, talents, disposition and wishes 



