to others as you would for your
own mother or sister. You would not talk like that before your mother.
Make it a rule never to do or say anything that you would be ashamed to
say in her presence, or in the presence of anyone you respect. Courage
is what you want here and plenty of it, but if you will only make a stand
for the right, strength, not your own, will be given you. I can tell you
of one who did so try and do the same. Bishop Pattison, who died some
years ago, when he was fearlessly doing his duty in the islands of the
Pacific, was, once a boy, face to face with this difficulty. He was in
the cricket eleven of his school--a good player and very fond of the
game. It had become the custom at cricket suppers for bad talk to be
indulged in. Pattison one evening rose up at the table and said, "If
this conversation is to be allowed I must leave the eleven. I cannot
share in this conversation--if you determine to continue it I shall have
no choice but to go." They did not want to lose him, and the foul
conversation was stopped.

MONEY.

The love of money is the root of all evil. Nevertheless, money in a
civilized country is a necessity. How to make it is one of the great
questions, and how to spend it aright is one of the great difficulties.

Money is power. It is power, if we use it aright, it overpowers us if we
use it badly or even carelessly. It is a great mistake to want to make
your money too quickly, and a still greater mistake to think that you are
likely to do so. Money that is the result of honest labour will, if
rightly used, be a blessing to you and yours.

1st. How to make it. By honest labour, honestly done. You have chosen
your trade or occupation--let your money be honestly earned therein, and
look more to the quality of your work than to the quantity of your money.
You have a right when you have learnt your trade to a fair day's wage for
a fair day's work, but be sure that the word fair governs both the work
and the wage--the fair work must be done before the fair wage can be
rightly claimed. There is far too much scamping work in the present day,
working simply for money and not for any interest in the work itself.
Money should not be a man's test of success, but the perfectness of his
work. Men used once to work for love of their art, and so long as the
picture was painted or the sculpture wrought, they cared little for the
money they were to gain by it, or the hardship