ignorance into wisdom, a fighter against wrong, an uncompromising defender of right, a devastator of oppressive privilege, establisher of liberty, the prophets little careful of right but an infinitely insistent on duty, are sure enough of curses and may go to the cross; hence the duty which brings abiding glory is nearly always for the time utterly inglorious. This is the price; few there be that will pay it. It is a hard saying; few will hear it. Some of the prominent ones among those few who have heard the call, and who have obeyed the call and paid the price, have been enshrined permanently in the world's memory. They are verily the glory of the race. For the obscure ones who have done their part as well, it is the privilege of faith to believe that their reward shall not be finally wanting.

Whom of the past do we call glorious? Men like Buddha, Moses, Luther, Cromwell; in our own land, Washington, Lincoln. On what does their glory rest? Is it not in their cases unselfish and efficient service rendered to their fellow men? Compare the standards by which we judge them and give them glory with the current standards of ambition among men. With what office was Buddha honored among the people? What salary did Moses or Luther get? What estates did Cromwell own? How much did Washington accumulate? Was Lincoln a rich and prosperous and comfortable man? Let us remember that the earthly rewards of Jesus were summed up in the death of the cross.

Is it not plain when we think of the true glory of mankind, how trivial are many of our current ambitions? Whom, then, of our time will be held glorious by future generations? We cannot tell that. But we are perfectly sure of some who will not be so held. The ambitious, rich, powerful, prominent leaders of human society, institutions, and politics? No, no. Not many such are called. But some will be remembered who now are comparatively obscure, who have been so busy just doing their duty that they have had no time even to think of glory, much less pursue it.

Indeed, glory is a word which will pass out of use. It is of a low grade of civilization. As the race becomes divine, other ambitions than to win glory will take possession of the human spirit. Not so much right and duty, but love and self-sacrifice, precede and proclaim, nay, verily constitute glory. The world builds temporary monuments to the merely conspicuous. But the race has its abiding monuments of the heart only for those of quite another sort; they are doers of their duty, lovers of their kind, sacrificers of themselves. These are they who lost their lives, and they have found them.

The only true glory which anyone can ever have will be not the glory which he seeks, but that which is thrust upon him. Duty can never be done for the sake of winning the reward of recognition; it instantly becomes contemptible pride, and must ultimately fail of glory.

The path of duty is the way to glory. There is only one supreme duty, and that is, forgetting all about such things as glory or self in any way, to fling one's self with divine abandon into whatever service he can render to his fellow men. This service itself is its own glory. To want any other is evidence of an unredeemed life. There has been but one perfect example of such a life on earth. We shall do well. to follow him who "made himself of no reputation." Because he, out of love to man, perfectly did that, his place is on the throne of the world for all time.

Poverty Prepares for Wealth.

HON. J. H. BRIGHAM, State Senator of Ohio.

E do not write of extreme or hopeless poverty such as is sometimes found in the wretched dens of our large

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cities. Children who survive such surroundings are more likely to gravitate towards the prison or almshouse than to become respectable and wealthy citizens. Still there are cases where children raised under such unfavorable conditions have become successful and honored members of society. I shall confine what I have to say on this subject to those who have none of the luxuries of life, except good plain clothes and food, and who find it necessary to practice rigid economy, and cultivate habits of industry in their childhood days. They thus learn the cost of a dollar, and how to get its worth when they part with it. Having no property, or very little, they are not likely to contract that worst of all methods of business, buying on credit. Necessity compels them to "pay as they go," and they soon realize that they have discovered the "philosopher's stone." It is time that they may depart from this safe business rule when they do have credit, and suffer the consequences, but the habit of "paying as you go" once formed is not likely to be abandoned, and is one of the best preparations for wealth. I do not of course refer to credit obtained in purchasing a farm, a house, or the necessary outfit for business, or work, but to purchase what is consumed, or what cannot be made to produce or save money.

The absence of wealth compels thought and planning to get along without that which we are not obliged to have, or leads

us to devise ways and means of supplying our wants without reducing our working capital. The young man who has no money is not sought after by associates who would like to help him spend it. He is not urged to visit the saloons and gambling houses, as he has no feathers to pluck. Being obliged to work, he learns to be independent and self-reliant. And when the day's work is ended, nature demands rest, and he is likely to heed the demand, and thus avoid the temptation and danger that hide in the darkness, and lead many boys into the downward road that ends in extreme poverty, if not in crime. As poverty does not furnish means to be wasted in idling away time in school, the poor boy is generally diligent, and forms the habit of improving every moment that can be spared for study, and thus another step is taken on the road that leads from poverty to wealth. The poor young man has no time to waste in the society of frivolous young women, and is not a favorite even of his parents. He therefore avoids that drain which has impoverished many young men.

It would be an easy matter to furnish many examples of poor boys who have become very wealthy, but it is not necessary. An investigation will show that a very large majority of the men of wealth in this country were comparatively poor in their youth. On the other hand, boys who have been reared with all the surroundings of wealth are often unable to add to what they inherit. Many of them, in fact, sink into poverty simply because they have never been compelled to learn the value of money by earning it by their own labor, and have never been taught by stern necessity to economize and save their substance. I do not say that what is true in the United States is true everywhere. I believe it is a difficult matter for the poor in the old world to advance from poverty to wealth. What I have written, therefore, is intended to apply principally to the land of glorious opportunities, the United States of America.

Where to Get Rich.

HOMER T. FULLER, PH.D., Pres. Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass.

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NE of the ancient philosophers said, "Give me where to stand and I will move the world." By this he meant not

place, but principles; not locality, but a basis for thought and conduct. A young man once said to a friend, "I am ready to begin the practice of my profession if I can only find a place." "It is all place," was the reply. "You can start anywhere if you have in you the marrow of success."

For the securing of a competence, there are but three external conditions, viz., a temperate climate, a just government, and a country which has fair natural resources. These conditions exist in almost every part of the United States, and almost everywhere it is possible for a man to acquire wealth. The proof is found in the fact that there are to-day men of wealth in every state in the Union, and in smaller towns as well as in larger cities. Indeed, a large proportion of the richer residents of our cities began life in country towns, laid there the physical and mental foundations of their prosperity, there their accumulations, and removed to cities either for greater convenience in the prosecution of their business, or for the enjoyment in a new sphere of society of the fruits of their acquisitions.

It is said that Portland, Oregon, has more millionaires than San Francisco; Portland, Maine, more rich men in proportion to its population than Boston, and that the owners of two of the largest estates in New England have spent nearly all their lives in towns of less than five thousand inhabitants. The founder and endower of a New England University began his business career in one of the most rugged hill towns of the Bay State,