our
business will stick to you. It is this directing your whole mind and
energies at one point, that brings success."

"The first thing a young man should do after selecting his vocation is to
become thoroughly satisfied with his choice. He must be thoroughly
satisfied or he is defeated at the start. In arriving at this decision
he must bear in mind that if he would find a calling in which all will
be sunshine, where the clouds never darken the pathway, he must look in
some other world for that calling. On earth there are no such callings
to be found."

"When we see Spurgeon, the great London preacher, swaying the
multitudes, we possibly do not remember the time when, as a poor boy of
but eighteen, he begins preaching on the street corners to a shabby
crowd. We would possibly be willing to partake of the fame that he may
now enjoy, but might object to the pastoral visiting he is obliged to do
each week. We would not object to the fame of Webster, of Calhoun or of
Clay, but we might think it tedious to work night after night to obtain
the knowledge which brought this fame. Ah! how many of us would 'peter'
out in a short time? When one is satisfied with his calling he must work
at it, if need be, day and night, early and late, in season and out of
season, never deferring for a single hour that which can NOW be done.
The old proverb, 'What is worth doing at all is worth doing well,' was
never truer than it is to-day."

A certain class are clamoring for a division of the national wealth.
They are like the worthless vagabond who said to the rich man, "I have
discovered that there is money enough in the world for all of us if it
was equally divided; this must be done, and we shall all be happy
together." "But," replied the rich man, "if everybody was like you it
would be spent in two months, and what would we then do?" "Oh! divide
again; keep dividing, of course!" And yet a very considerable number of
people think this is the solution of the labor problem. The point is, we
must distinguish the dividing line between the rights of property and
the wrongs of oppression. Either extreme is fatal. Education is surely
the solution of the labor question.

Listen: Our country is the freest, the grandest, the best governed of
any nation on earth; yet we spend yearly nine hundred million dollars
for drink, and only eighty-five million for education. Thus, while one
dollar tends to education and wealth, over ten dollars is used to br