lead them into a wilderness beyond which there is no promised land. The world will not adapt itself to us; we must adapt ourselves to the world. "The future hides in it gladness and sorrow." We must press on; leave the individual free to develop his powers; starting him in the world's struggle, determined to go onward, nothing daunting him, seeing success more or less before him, if he but avoids those causes of failure to so many-a careless indifference and a culpable ease. The majority of the difficulties of life will succumb to industry, allied to ingenuity and thrift.

There is no nobler field for philanthropy than the teaching the poor how to help themselves; it is a field worthy of the highest intellect in the State, for it strikes at the root of pauperism, of misery, of the demoralization and degradation of the masses. Trace back to its cause the distressful want of those who are able and willing to work, and you will find the cause of failure in their lives is based upon the unfortunate selection of the trade by which they have to live. To check the evil, we must prevent the recurrence of its cause. Boys must be educated in habits of industry and thrift; they must be taught a trade or handicraft; they must acquire regular, methodical business habits. There is no real kindness in any help that pauperises or renders helpless those it assists; to benefit your fellows, you must teach them to be self-helpful, give them a knowledge by which they can live-a knowledge of different kinds of work-a knowledge that makes it possible for them to earn a livelihood anywhere-a knowledge that keeps men in the straight path, because they are not, in utter despair,