Past, penetrating the vaster unfathomable Future, with all its images of beauty, merely to follow a profession or a trade, merely to be a merchant, a lawyer, a mechanic, a soldier. "So God created man in his own image; in the image of God created he him." The image of God is in the soul, and the young must take heed that it is not effaced by the neglect of any of the trusts they have received. They must bear in mind that there are debts other than to their profession or business, which, like gratitude, it will ever be their pleasure, "still paying, still to owe,"--which can be properly discharged only by the best employment of all the faculties with which they are blessed,--so that life shall be improved by culture and filled with works for the good of man. In no respect would I weaken any just attachment to the business of one's choice. Goethe advised every one to read daily a short poem; and in the same spirit would I refine and elevate business by the chastening influence of other pursuits, by enlarging the intelligence, by widening the sphere of observation and interest, by awakening new sympathies. In the faithful husbandry of time, in the aggregation of all its particles of golden sand, is the first stage of individual progress. With the living spirit of industry, the student will find his way easy. Difficulties cannot permanently obstruct his resolute career. He will remember "rare Ben Jonson," one of England's admired and most learned bards, working as a bricklayer with a trowel in his hand and a book in his pocket,--Burns, wooing his muse as he followed the plough on the mountain-side,--the beloved German Jean Paul, composing his earliest works by the music of the simmering kettles in his mother's humble kitchen,--and Franklin, while a printer's boy, straitened by small means, beginning those studies and labors which make him an example to mankind. Seek, then, occupation; seek labor; seek to employ all the faculties, whether in study or conduct,--not in words only, but in deeds also, mindful that "words are the daughters of Earth, but deeds are the sons of Heaven." So shall you eat of that fabled fruit growing on the banks of the river of Delight, whereby men gain a blessed course of life without one moment of sadness. So shall your days be filled with usefulness,-- "And when old Time shall lead you to your end, Goodness and you fill up one monument."