VARIETIES.
Drifting.—No waste of time is so lavish as that which is the result of drifting, and there is no way in which people squander it more. Thousands of good intentions are daily swamped and destroyed, simply by allowing the time to slip away unconsciously until it is too late.
Usefulness.—Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
The Deepest Secret.—We shall have read the deepest secret of nature when we have read our own hearts.
“Theobject of education is the carrying out of God’s will for the individual; but the purpose of His will is hidden from us. The direction, only, in which we are to work is pointed out by the peculiar endowments of temper and of intellect in the child.”—Mrs. Sewell.