night without saying his prayers. This promise
he had kept faithfully. Night and morning that rough strong man had
knelt and said the same prayers which he had first learnt at his mother's
knees. Those prayers had been heard and had brought their blessing to
him. Church going on Sunday is as important as daily prayers. A Sunday
morning should never be allowed to pass without seeing you at Church. Lie
a bed on Sunday morning is the devil's version of the fourth commandment.
There is plenty of time on Sunday for Church as well as for walks and
talks. Sunday is not to be a miserable day, or all Church and prayers,
but God first and then ourselves. Sunday school you will most likely be
sent to as long as you go to day school, and you will be wise not to give
it up as soon as you are what you would call your own master.

Both home and school ought to have their pleasures as well as their work.
Do your work thoroughly, and do your pleasures thoroughly also. Share
your pleasures with the others, and with father and mother. You can give
much pleasure to father and mother, as well as to yourselves, if you try.

Love God and love your home--be obedient, truthful, and plucky--standing
up for the right, and not ashamed to refuse to join in the wrong; and
your home and school days will train you well for your work in life.

GOING TO WORK

What are you going to be? is a question that has to be settled very early
in life--earlier amongst the so-called working classes than any other. It
must be settled at about thirteen years old. Fortunately for you it is
not whether you shall do anything for your living or not, but in what way
you shall earn your living. Some people seem to look upon work as if it
were a degrading thing, and only to be used until they can afford to live
without it. Life is not worth calling life that is not downright honest
work, and a man is hardly a man at all who is not a working man--working
either with his hands or his brain, or both.

In determining what your calling in life shall be you must consider two
things, 1st. Whether the calling you wish to follow is an honest and
lawful one. 2nd. Whether you are fitted for it.

If you can say yes to both these questions, then, provided your parents
approve, follow out your natural inclination. A lad is far more likely
to succeed in life if his heart is in his work, than if he has to work
against the grain. On the other hand, you will neve