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ities, as those ivho have applied themselves diligently to their work. And 
geniuses themselves owe their grand achievements to their hours or periods 
of intense application. 
A great point, therefore , to he aimed at is to get the working qualities 
well trained! When that is done, the race after the prizes of life will be 
found comparatively easy. Never get discouraged! Repeat and again 
repeat; try, try again; facility will come with labor, as “Practice makes 
master.” 
“Rich are diligent; who can command 
Time, nature’s stock ? and, could his hour-glass fall, 
Would, as for seed of stars, stoop for the sand, 
And, by incessant labor , gather all ?” 
— D’Avenant. 
<S)Weet-©Her. 
“I Wound to Heal.” 
“I will strike, and I will heal.” 
— Deut. xxxii. 39. 
f ARENTS must sometimes wound to heal , that is, they must correct 
and even punish their children, sons and daughters, whenever they 
need or deserve it. 
“Withhold not correction,” says the Scripture,* “from a child: for 
if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die. 
“Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.” 
And again: “He that loveth his son, frequently chastiseth him, that he 
♦Proy. xxiii: 13 and 14. 
