Diligence And Perseverance

Be diligent and persevering, and you will accomplish alraost every thing. Pro gress in error and wickedness is usualh step by step; and if this be truc, rauch more is it true that good altainments are made gradually. The purling rill winds its way a vast distance ere it becomes the mighty stream, the oak has struck Jus wide extended roots and gathered up its iron-strength in many years; old ocean's betls of coral are the deposits of ages, the student climbs the rugged way up science's summit by short but continued steps; the miserhas accumulated his thousands one by one; the mighty rail-way has been thrown togetherby the single shovel-full; far-reaching canals dug out stroke by stroke. So in naturo, so in art, so in evcry thing human. So advances must be made in viriue, in piety, in knowledge. Diligence and perseverance, should be always the good man's motto. With these he will accomplish much, both for himself and for truth. Men backslide from a good cause gradually; they advance in a good cause step by step. If we will diligently and perseveringly be doing a little, we shall accomplish much in the end.The Hislory of the World is mode of battlee, conqnestp, the accessiona and deatha of kings, the doings of statesmen and the tricks of law. This makes the vulgar story of the external world! lts deeper hitftory is of the hearts even of its lowest dweücrs - of the en., nobüng impulses thit swslltliem - of the unconquerable spirit of meekness which looks cnlmly pon terror, and tnrns even agony into patience. A London alley might produce a more glorifying heraldry - if emotiona could be registered, tlian Poictiers or Blcnheim. - llow manya man, whose on!y ))istory is written in a baptismal register and undertBker's account, has conquered sufferin,ger in its onset then n squadron. If true magnonimity awarded knighthood, how mony who want even shoe leather, have won tfieir