The Newtown bee., 1906-01-19

sitting in the midst of the teachers"
 There are three stages in the life of the individual which are of the great est significance: childhood, youth and manhood: Corresponding with these stages of life are certain conditions of the most vital importance: blood,
 br1ng1ng-up and character; or in Oth- CT words family, education and mis- sion. In all well written biographies you will find these three things con sfdered: what the subject was by birth; and what he was by education; and
 what he became by his own conduct of life.
 What one is by nature must be of
 the first importance, for all the rest depends upon that. The grand secret of ones life, first of all, is in his blood. Parentage is the foundation upon
 which attachments and character must be built. Everything after it's kind is
 the great law of heredity. Like begets
 like throughout the universal scale of creation.
 It is not question of high or low,
 rich or poor in the conventional sense
 in which the world puts an estimate upon families, and houses and wealth,
 and wealth, and social position; but it
 is matter of scientific fact. Race
 may have somewhat to do with it; out
 ward conditions and circumstances
 may modify the natural qualities, and characteristics, and capacities stamp ed upon the individual life by the law Of inheritance. Gods book of life be- gins with >genealogies,. and every new
 period of great importance begins
 with new birth, the birth of a new
 type Of man, and new quality of character.
 Next to a mans birthright
 comes his bringing-up. What
 shall his home life be-? How is
 he being moulded in the life of the
 family by his father and his mother? What is the controlling influence of
 the social circle in which he spends
 the plastic period of childhood and
 youth? The first twelve years of one' s
 life will determine in great degree
 the future of the man or the woman.
 Education, in the largest best sense | mind aS well as the common. We are
 apt to think of genius as being inde-
 pendent of the ordinary conditions of
 life. But is it, really? Does any gift
 in itself, make one great? And is 1t ] not true that the most gifted become great as the leaders of the world, only 1 as they are faithful and persistent in
 labor and study and willing service? We hear now and then something about man of destiny. But is there not In the same sense destiny in the
 life of every one? On the other hand
 we hear much concerning men who are
 creatures of circumstances; and if it
 is true in one case why not then in ev- cry case? What do meam when we talk of destiny and of circumstances in that way? Do we really mean that there are cases which are so exception al that they are outside the laws Are any exempt from cause and effect? Does not every soul have his own mis- sion? And is it not the grace of God
 sufficient for every one?
 | Is not the Son of Man our divine ex- ample, in all the stages and conditions
 of this earth-life? It is one of our sug- gestive sayings that the boy is father of the man. The wisdom of the | thought is, that what a boy has be-
 come at twelve or fifteen is the best prophecy and promise of what is in
 him, and of what he may be later,
 The boy who has the confidence of his parents, and has learned the spirit of l obedience, and is seeking wisdom of his teachers, and withaI is found in Gods house about his Heavenly Fathers business, has discovered the essential elements of the noblest man. | hood and is worthy of his mission. | "And he went down with them, and
 came to Nazareth and was subject un- l to them"