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REV. Arthur =. PIERsoN,

REV. ARTHUR 4. PIERsoN, ssii !,
Let me remind you. that hnmsAi
history shows that, 10 most cases, q
truly useful life begins to bs service.
able near its source. In the great
'W Westminster of tame, how many high
inches and conspicuous tablets afc
assigned to young men They have
been the fathers in history poetry,
oratory, science and ait, aud even.
philosophy. 8 3. q
9 Before the age or thirty, Virgil:
stood ut the head Of the Latin poets,
Luther led the hosts of the Reforma-
ton, and Newton occupied the 'front.'
rank among discogsrers. Before
twenty-eight yearsshad passed, Her,
odotus had reeited his ninc books Of
history at the Olympic games, and
Hannibal brought Spain into subjec-
tion to the arms Of Carthage. a
quarter century old, Demesthenes 7is
the golden-mouth of Greece, and Cic,,
ero the siiYer-tongue Of Rome Ra:;
phael is, at the same age, summoned
BY Julius II. to adorn; with his I'M
mortal cartoons, the panels Of the
Vatican, and Galileo nightly treads,
the paths Of the shining 6eg0st above,
{, search of undiscovered starsl AT.
the same age, Shakespeare stands at
n, head cf all dramatic writors, and
Jonathan Edwards and George White
field are princes among preschersi
At twenty-five, Alexander, had overs
tnrnedth Persian Empire, and NApo-
leon and Washington were! accom-
plished generals. Plato was at twenty
the intimate friend and peer Of Soc:
rates, and called Aristotle ..the mind
Of his school, at seyenteen. Pascal
is q great mathematician at sixteen,
and Bacon Il. no older when be lays
the basis Of his inductive philosophy,
and begins to- revolutioUise the
thought of theIworld l. Thelist might
beswelled to hundreds and thousands.
Let these suffice to illustrate the state
'ment that, in all departments effort
and'stndy, geniss and talent, tinven.H
ton and discovery, yoatl fal lsaessy asdi
enierpri~ have been; efogAed. With the
laurels Of Immortality t;,Ia.,,.. &, 49,,
Young man, do You appreciate your
Z Do You grasp the hour
of your eppoftunity z Never we're
there such bsIpsoto powes ihever 90
much to evoke .trae greatness, never,
90 little, to excuse, Q useless LIFE In
ScsontrastiYith The noon. tide Of glory
that shines upon your heads, Il was
but faint starlight that made tho cres-
cent, sparkle, above the Turkish
mosque it was bnt moonlight that
silrsred the Roman eagles, Or the
Solumned shrineso oof. Greece. Yes, in
comparison, it was but the gray aass,
that Jshope upon JAdea, and gided,
Tie tnrrets, on Mt. Moriah. You. live
Id The, fuH blaze of q civilization Of
and Which Arabia or Assyria, Egypt
Or Rome, not even foreshowedl ~ y
That which, according to intellect
ual standards, made Archimedes aphi.
losopher is the common; school educs-
ton of every boy, and what, BY meas !
urement, constituted Socrates cage, :
is But the alphabet of . Sunday
school ethics. SO rapid has been the
growth Of ideas, bn.h in the sphere
Of mind and moralst It is alike ..
law Of nature and Of God, that to
whom much is gi,ea, Of him will muOh
be required. All yoar surroundings
conspire to make you great and
mighty for good, You have only TO
be true to yourselves and your oSpos.
unltles. 80. ~ t.,a - MI.