Year: 1861

the OuhBer brother, that there IS no room
for idleness in this world. Now, too, the
Younger Brother knew that there is One
mightier than the sun, whose bidding he
must DO. AT Athens and at Rome he had
met the children of an ancient race, and
from them he had learnt to know Him
whose will it is that men should work on
earth; who Himself had come to earth to
set All example of such high selftorgetting
work for man, that men at humble dis
tance might follow after, and strive to do
like Him.


So the Younger Brother never rested
For Il long time ne knew of no lands be.
yond the sea; bat though his journeyings
had ceased for while, he had hard work
a: hone--to train himself to see out all
knowled ge, to frame new laws, to think
great vigorous ,houghts--to carry out,
though seldom consciously, the will! OF Him
who is ruler OF all.


But a time came when voices we're sent
up to Heaven from the Far West. from the
company of fair Islands south and east,
from all the lands where men can live or
breathe, whence rose the common cry of
"help, save US from ourselvcs!'


Among them was voice he had heard
long ago, before he had left his fathers
hearth. He answered it as he answered
all other cries for help. But he knew not
the voice. Whose was it2


Come back to the land Of the tillers and
rearers of the EARTH Come back to that
fair morning of promise which brought
those great glad thoughts to the Younger
Brother. Another look a: the gorgeous
sight, and he also is moved by it to the
one only action of life. Rest, cease life
of thought--ihe,e were what he sought as
his highest good; and when he saw the
sun shake Off his slumber, he read no les,
son there of struggle and toll be only
thought of the couch of ease from whence
the sun had arisen. He coveted that
splendid case he thought that, by going
back but little way, he would reach that
gorgeous repose, and there dream away
his life So he sat out, some time after
his brother had gone ; for slo,h cogs ed
his steps and he had no need to hurry,
siace it Was but little way he had to go.


But woe TO him who would go back in
this world wee to him whose eyes are
blinded that he cannot see the onward, up
waV path which all should follow. Turn
ing his back on tie sun he went forth.


For little while he showed the true
spirit of his race, fought bravely with the
giant hunters on the wild steeds, and stur-
diIy across the mountains; but on the
other side finding few difficulties, he sank
back into his natural sloth, and folding
his hands, slept the sleep OF idleness, while
his mind was busted with splendid and
useful dreams. He had crept into a mar
row corner, hemmed in on one side by the
hcaven.reaching hills, which he had crossed
with 80 much trouble, while all around
roared the cruel sea. He could not choose
but sleep. The land he had come to, was
brilliant as the dawn, favored beyond all
others by the suns strong beams; food,
far more than he could need, grew withn
his .cach. Surely, after so much toll he
could afford to rest; surely this was the
promised land of which he had dreamed
50 long.


There is 10 room for idlencss in this
world Of ours, Elder Brother! Those mag
aifcen. imaginations of yours, those deep
thoughts grasping sometimes at truth, but
often bright and tiimsy as a foam bubble
could you not read in them the great les
son of unceasing toll which you havs stri
ven against in vain.


Pure and beautiful were his thoughts at
first, but the moss grew around his heart,
the letters of foolish custom tied dowa his
bands, and his limbs grew still for want OF
use. His soul died within him, and the
unconscious cry arose to his lips, Broth.
sr, save me for myselt!'


This was the voice the young brother
heard, but he knew not whose need it was
that called him to that land Of luxury
He has found that brother, and is trying
now to help him; though so feeble, SO
degraded is he, SO unlike all others whom
the Younger Brother has helped that he
will have long and weary task.


dare not say that |, the Younger Bro
ther, have acted throughout as became one
who had received such high teaching; l
dare not say that when the Elder Brother,
once reused beyond endurance turned like
a wild beast to rend his helper, it was al
together without cause. But hope that
the Younger Brother will remember the
good things that came to his share in the
grey old times when choice of life or death
lay before them both when, but for the
energy which was given him and the wide
field of work which was opened to him, he
might have been like his poor degraded
brother, in all perhaps but the noble
thoughts which for while STAYED off tha,
brothers decay. hope he will use the
wisdom which his happier life has taught
him for the truest and highest good of him
whose early words stirred him to activity.


He knows now that this is his brother.
Infrm and crippled AS he found him.
changed in all outward seeming he never
could have known him, but that in his dim