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 

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

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



