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Wise men, therefore, plough deep while sluggards sleep. 
“Life,” says Bishop Spalding, “is good, and opportunities of becom¬ 
ing and doing good are always with us. Our house, our table, our tools, 
our hooks, our city, our country, our language, our business, our profession, 
—the people who love us and those who hate, they who help and they who 
oppose—what is all this but opportunity V 3 
“The means that Heaven yields must be embraced, 
And not neglected; else, if Heaven would, 
And we will not. Heavens offer we refuse, 
The profer’d means of succor and redress.” 
— Shakespeare. 
l®i m, <§)pr\Jtce. 
Hope in Adversity. 
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast.” 
— Pope. 
M OPE is the support of our will. 
It is Hope that ever places a goal 
before our efforts, consoles us in misfor¬ 
tune, and encourages us in success. 
All men, each in the path marked 
out for him by Providence, walk in 
the light of that lamp. Thanks to this consoling sentiment which always 
promises us a more prosperous to-morrow, we bear the evils, the trials of 
our present life, which are sometimes so forbidding and so bitter that we 
■are tempted to sluggish discouragement or even to give up in blank despair; 
