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enviously at others whose disadvantages they forgel to compare with their own advantages. Then Bince life is a short, he exhorts us to enjoy the pi and "What to-morrow may bring seek not." So our Saviour declared thai "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."* Vet these \^ry Bayings that seem parallel show clearly the great difference between the Epicurean philosophy i Christianity. For while the Epicurean declared that • h day ild provide for itself, we, as ;i Christian people r gniz i Divine Providence controlling and ordering the futu As adversity generally come to all. it is wise to know I In when i loes come. Because, "Rich* and power can; »ve trouble from us." (Ode HI. 1, 37, 38, 39, 4<>.) And why should we worry about riches too much, for "Rapacii s fortune with swift wings bears away the crown from oni I rejoices to place it on some other." (Ode I: XXXIV, 15, 10.) Of i things happen which cannot be helped, and it i alw in sue!) tin; member the old adage, "What can't ured mi • endured." And the poet has tmlj nd beautifully said. "Patience helps to bear that which no power can " (Ode I: XXIV, 19, 20.) H irns us of tl flight of time while we thus worry, "Al P imus, P Irous, the fleeting years e-lide < < way Ode I I : XIV, 12.) Whether rich or poor we must II i or 1 ' "With en 1 pace impartial fat< 1 k 1 and tic- pal;. gate. (Ode I: IV. L8.) Tl -e • n not do the ] it justice as nothii lea the of tie riginal work can. lie, li B \[. Carlyle, and Km 'ii. exj»i sed the thoughts ad feci f men. which tin then could not express. Hi binfl n hut he enjoyed by the udeni who ii the hook will meditat! his own advantage nd >phy wl h i et forth so clearly. He s that men bai v/.ed in the past b] >mewh and j< and n o v. acad f a i l u p - h i c h men have t o - d a v .

SOCIETY AND SCHOOL.

S man IS a social being and lias a natural desire to mingle with his fellows, the question i probably to every student to decide to what extenl he may enjoy I • pleasures of society without interfering with the object or hi tudies. It is a question which none but himself can answer and to which no rulef tve thi his own g i ense and judgment can apply, for the natures of no two men are BO similar that the ezperien > one n -erve as a f ure guide to the inquiries of another. Between the butterfly of fashion at the one extreme, and the book worm at another, is a great variety of men whose BOcial natures requ in a greater or less degree of gratification and who are confronted each with the question: How much of my time can I profitably spare from stud} ind sleep, t mingle in society? A man f even the most unsocial temperamen! I industrious habits would not counsel a per] 1 round of i lectual drudgery unrelieved by rest or r >n, for it i well known that such a C Q ! d O its own end. Tic ocial instinci ire indispensable to oni mmetrical d ipment. Intercourse with on fellows i> a prime requi e of that sympathy with the interests < ! mankind, wh I is > an (dement of every charat r 61 e n selfish ml me) enary. Society is a commun t in which each must contribute his share of wit. gi I felloe lip, or learning. Even the bore assists with his presen andcoun

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