Achievement

— 114- IMPROVEMENT ERA

and God's help to the top. Remember, He who became the great- est of became the humblest and lowliest of all. The all, first

whole, vast, upward region is before you. Oh, what a career is yours, if you but will it! "But, my boy, in all you do, trust in God. In all your trials, and you will have many,see beyond the sore present into the blessed future. Your faith must never forsake you. God is behind everything, remember that. Outside, the air is dark, and the black clouds hang low over the earth, yet if you think a moment, you will know that out beyond, above the clouds, shines unhindered the glorious sun. So it is with God and His providences. And now, we will read one chapter from the Bible and go to bed. Harald, get it for me." But Harald did not move, and when the grandmother looked down at him, she saw his tired head resting against her knee. The boy was asleep. Not that he was disinterested in his grandmother's words, for she often talked to him in the same encouraging strain, but he was so tired, and tonight he had had an extra plate of mush for supper. Grandmother said no more, but ran her fingers through the brown hair, smiling to herself. ( To be continued.)

ACHIEVEMENT.

'Tis the coward who stops at misfortune;

'Tis the knave who changes each day;

'Tis the fool who wins half the battle, Then throws all his chances away.

There's little in fife but labor, And tomorrow may prove but a dream, Success is the bride of Endeavor, And luck but a meteor's gleam, John T. Moore, in Success.