t not the highest success.

He had made himself a man,--this was his real success,--a true, a
Christian man. He had lived a noble life. He had reared the lofty
structure of his manhood upon a solid foundation--principle. It is the
rock which the winds of temptation and the rains of selfishness cannot
move.

Robert Bright is happy because he is good. Tom Spicer, now in the
state prison, is unhappy,--not _because_ he is in the state prison, but
because the evil passions of his nature are at war with the peace of
his soul. He has fed the good that was within him upon straw and
husks, and starved it out. He is a body only; the soul is dead in
trespasses and sin. He loves no one, and no one loves him.

During the past summer, Mr. Bright and his lady took a journey "down
east." Annie insisted upon visiting the State Reform School; and her
husband drove through the forest by which he had made his escape on
that eventful night. Afterwards they called upon Sam Ray, who had been
"dead sure that Bobby would one day be a great man." He was about the
same person, and was astonished and delighted when our hero introduced
himself.

They spent a couple of hours in talking over the past, and at his
departure, Mr. Bright made him a handsome present in such a delicate
manner that he could not help accepting it.

Squire Lee is still as hale and hearty as ever, and is never so happy
as when Annie and her husband come to Riverdale to spend the Sabbath.
He is fully of the opinion that Mr. Bright is the greatest man on the
western continent, and he would not be in the least surprised if he
should be elected president of the United States one of these days.

The little merchant is a great merchant now. But more than this, he is
a good man. He has formed his character, and he will probably die as
he has lived.

Reader, if yon have any good work to do, do it now, for with you it may
be "NOW OR NEVER."

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