How to Rise

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respect for law, human and divine, scrupulous honesty, fairness and fidelity. They should be taught civics, that they may be pre- pared for the duties of citizenship. They should be taught some form of handiwork, the use of tools for the boys, and the needle and domestic work for the girls, so that they can get a living by their hands when need be. The matter of how to teach the children is largely a matter of environment, of conditions; and what would appeal to my children would perhaps have no effect upon others, but it is safe to teach every child to pray, not only with the lips, but by all means from the heart. Teach him faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and how much we are dependent upon his mercy, for our every blessing, and when that love and veneration is thoroughly instilled in the hearts, the task you have set yourself, to make your children kind, loving and obe- dient, is accomplished. No better or more successful way to do this can be found than by example. Instead of sending our chil- dren to bed with the mere injunction, "Don't forget your pray- ers," let us, when it is time to retire, call our family together, and join with them in returning thanks to our Heavenly Father for his watchful care during the day, and entreat a continuation of the same during the night. These are my views, and while they may not be suitable for all natures, I feel that they, at least, have the merit of being as simple a means to the desired end as can be advanced.

Sugar City, Idaho.

HOW TO RISE. The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. . . . Suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation. There may sometimes be un- generous attempts to keep a young man down: and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted

injury. Cast about and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it. Abraham Lincoln.