in whose image we are made and for whose company forever, in ever increasing fullness of resemblance.

Any and every addition to our knowledge in these varied directions, rightly gained and rightly used, serves to enlarge and invigorate all the nobler elements of thought and feeling and action within us. And as to the visible universe, of which by the aid of the senses, the thoughts of most men are much more definite than of the other grand guages and mirrors of the Divine patent of our nobility, how easy is the thought for any one, that, if the outer framework for the execution of God's great plan of all things be magnificent, as is the whole bright sidereal universe, even as we know it who know so little of it, what then must be the exceeding glory of that plan itself. When its topstone shall be put on with shoutings, as in some day near to God it will be, the whole present material array of things will, as we are taught in many passages of Scripture, be dissolved by His hand from view, to be replaced by a better physical universe for the evolution of still higher parts of the Divine Plan, for which the frame of things that now are is altogether inadequate. Thus the Bible theory of all things is grand indeed everything in the universe is a piece of Divine wisdom, the product of Divine love, set where it is and as it is by Divine plan, and upheld in existence continually by Divine power. All is from God and for God: all is also for man, and to be transfused in the end by Heavenly Alchemy into man. With strict philosophical, as well as etymological, propriety do we therefore call the laws, processes and operations of nature, or things done (facio), , yes, done by a Divine hand for a Divine end. And all supposed or pretended knowledge is true and real, in proportion as it corresponds in tone and influence with the true Christian philosophy of the universe. And knowledge gained with such aspects and in such relations brings far different exhileration and stimulation to its possessor from any other fancied knowledge that is shorn of such elements. The joy of new knowledge accordingly and its power are various in different minds, according to two guages of measurement: their habit of insight into the moral relations and utilities of the knowledge that they gain, and their habit of profitable improvement of their own increasing knowledge to the great practical ends of life for themselves and others. It is lamentable indeed that so many mean by the pleasure of ac

quiring knowledge, like most who speak of the pleasures of earnest industry, only the mere incidental gratification of mental activity, as such, without reference as to any appreciation of the highest and most inspiring objects of all such activity.

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THE WAY TO SUCCEED.

BY CHARLES NORTHEND.*

The call for well qualified and earnest teachers was never before so great as at the present time; and the increase of the number of efficient instructors merely serves to increase the demand for more of "the same sort." Communities which have always received the services of poorly qualified teachers are usually satisfied from the fact that they have never had the opportunity for noticing the difference. Our opinions and judgments are often formed by contrast, and without the means for making this we cannot truly appreciate the true worth either of an article or individual. In persons and things there are grades of qualities. An article may in itself seem good and right to one who has seen nothing better, and yet when brought into comparison with more complete specimens, its character and value will assume a much lower position. It is equally so with individuals and particularly with teachers. If the people of a district have long received the services of a teacher of very limited attainments and moderate efficiency, they may rest satisfied simply because they are in "blissful ignorance" of their true condition; but when the spell is once broken and they are brought to see the happy results attending the efforts of a teacher of the true stamp, they will never again be satisfied with one of an inferior grade. Hence it is true that an increase of the supply augments the demand. The number of districts is yearly increasing in which the right talent is better appreciated and more in demand.

Author of Teacher and Parent, and Teacher's Assistant.

But, says one, "I have been teaching several years and I cannot succeed in obtaining any better situation now than I had when I commenced. I have heard much about the increasing call for teachers and the liberal pecuniary inducements offered, but I do not believe one word of such talk. Only a few secure good situations and they depend upon some extra efforts of their friends." For many years we have watched the operation of matters and we cannot abandon our opinion that good teachers were at no previous time so well appreciated and rewarded as they are at the present time. It is undoubtedly true that occasionally an incompetent and undeserving teacher gains an eligible position while his really more deserving rival is left unemployed. But such elevation and such neglect will prove only ephemeral. True merit will sooner or later attract attention and secure true promotion, while the temporary exaltation of the undeserving will only result in certain abasement.

Our position is that the business of teaching opens an increasingly extensive field for usefulness and pecuniary compensation, to those who are truly deserving. But it should not be forgotten that success and prosperity do not come of themselves. As failure is usually the result of inability to manage, or error in management, so success usually attends well directed ability.

When we hear teachers complaining that they are not properly appreciated nor properly rewarded, we shall find, almost invariably, that the fault is in themselves and not in their employers. If one enters upon the business of instruction with a feeling that his qualifications cannot be increased, and with the impression that teachers' meetings, institutes, educational books and periodicals are of no avail to him, he will not rise either in true merit or in the estimation of the community. But to him who enters the profession with an abiding conviction that the work before him is a noble work,-ever calling for higher qualifications, newer aspirations and more entire devotion, personal and professional improvement will be made and true elevation and deserved compensation will follow.

Again, if one engages in teaching with the impression that his entire duty will be performed and his entire responsibilities met by devoting six hours daily to the work of the school room, he will neither increase his qualifications nor rise in the estimation of

the public. But he whose plans, energies and time are wisely and earnestly given to the good of his school and of the community in which he is called to labor, will become a growing man in his profession and his services will be duly honored and generously rewarded. There may be exceptions to these, but they will prove mere exceptions and of rare occurrence. The truly deserving may for a time suffer from neglect and lack of appreciation on the part of the public, but it will be only for a time. True merit combined with persevering and judicious effort will, in time, lead to true exaltation and success.

To the teacher who would hope to succeed, we would say: Be always learning yet never feel that you are a paragon of wisdom. Be active in aiding all the educational operations of the day so far as possible. Aim daily to promote your own improvement, and rejoice daily in the improvement and elevation of your brother teachers. Be devoted to your work and let pupils and parents feel that your time and talents and acquirement, and that in all proper ways and all suitable times your words, example and influence shall be used for the good of the rising generation, and you will neither lack for friends, for appreciation, nor for compensation. The earnest, growing teacher will surely come to be in demand, while the anti-progressive one will be left to occupy some subordinate position.

FOLLOW THE RIGHT.-No matter who you are, what your lot, or where you live; you cannot afford to do that which is not right. The only way to obtain happiness and pleasure for yourself, is to do the right thing. You may not always hit the mark; but you should, nevertheless, always aim at it, and with every trial your skill will increase. Whether you are to be praised or blamed for it by others; whether it will seemingly make you richer or poorer, or whether no other person than yourself knows of your action; still always, and in all cases, do the right thing. Your first lessons in this rule will sometimes seem hard ones, but they will grow easier and easier, until doing the right thing will become a habit, and to do wrong will be an impossibility.