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“He that shall persevere unto the end, he shall he saved” (Matt. x. 
22 ). 
“To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite; 
To forgive wrongs darker than the death of night; 
To defy power which seems omnipotent; 
To love and bear; to hope till hope creates 
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; 
Neither to change, to falter, nor repent; 
This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be 
Good, great, and joyous, beautiful and freb; 
This is alone life, joy, empire and victory ” 
—Shelley. 
b}y<3\cmtl]. 
(JACINTH.) 
A red variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem. Zircon is a min¬ 
eral containing the earth zirconia and silica, occurring in square prisms 
with pyramidal terminations of a brown or gray color, occasionally red, 
and often nearly transparent. A red variety, as stated above, is called 
hyacinth. 
Moral Beauty. 
“When with beauty we can virtue join, 
We paint the semblance of a point divine.” 
— Prior. 
ORAL Beauty—what is it? It consists in virtue, or moral good¬ 
ness. The law commanding some things, and forbidding others; 
the great difficulties to be surmounted; the noble soul, the heroic will, the 
