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ting out of moral back-doors, in order to hide their real opinions and evade 
the consequences of holding and openly professing them.” 
“But,” says another writer, “ though a lie be ever so well dressed, 
it will be detected sooner or later.'" 
Let us, therefore, dear reader, always— if we speak at all —tell the 
open, candid truth and be like the man 
“Whose armor is his honest thought. 
And simple truth his utmost skill.” 
©lacl\ t^oplar. 
The poplar is a tree of the genus Populus , of several species, as the 
black poplar x , the aspen-tree, etc. The species are all of rapid growth. 
Courage. 
Courage!—Hope, howe’er he fly 
For a time, can never die! 
Courage, therefore, brother men! 
Cry, “God! and to the fight again!” 
fj' OUR AGE is the energy which rises equal to all the emergencies of 
^ life. It is the perfect will, which no terrors can shake. It will 
enable one to die, if need be, in the performance of duty. 
And just such energy or courage the true Christian must have; for 
he must be a true soldier of Jesus Christ, bold, courageous, and active, in 
his warfare for God and Ilis glorious cause. 
The true Christian who has the right spirit, i. e., the spirit of Jesus, 
