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never attain their own standard of true heroism and self-sacrifice. They groan under their own condemnation.—And shall we say that by they we mean nearly ten tenths of all those who profess above other men to be followers of the brave, self-sacrificing Jesus? Trace the recorded instances of noble daring and devotion—see who have sprung forward in the hour of peril, and risked their lives to save the perishing;—not many pious, not many godly of this world are called—but James the carpenter, and Peter the fisherman—fellows without the pale of superfine intelligence and so-called moral refinement—these are the men who tread the tottering plank, who rush through smoke and flame and bring forth the dying into life,—these are the men whose daring rises with the storm,—who climb the breaking mast,—who hold the tiller while their arms are burning,—who live in monuments for deeds whose beauty none saw so clearly as those who failed to do them.

Benevolence is good,—refinement is good,—gentleness and suavity are good,—and above these, socially considered, modesty is good; but without assurance, resolution, and self-respect,—without that foundation of manhood which can make these virtues yours, instead of you, they will be void of any great utility to society, and comparatively a curse to their possessor.

We shall not make so little of the discretion of men as to point out those courses and methods of education which will correct this over-intellectual and immoral age. Men know the proper methods—they lack but the true philosophy to tolerate them. But we will add a fable:

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