Do ye toil? Oh, freer, firmer

Ye shall grow beneath your toil; Only craven spirits murmur,

Lightly rooted in the soil.

Through the gloom, and through the darkness, Through the danger and the dole,

Through the mist and through the murkness, Travels the great human soul.

Believe in God.

I through doubt and darkness travel
Through the agony and gloom,
Hoping that I shall unravel

This strange web beyond the tomb.

O my brothers! men heroic!

Workers both with hand and brain!

'Tis the Christian-not the StoicThat best triumphs over pain. Believe in God.

O my brothers! love and labour!
Conquer wrong by doing right;
Truth alone must be your sabre,

Love alone your shield in fight.
Virtue yet shall cancel vices;

Look above, beloved mates!

Only God himself suffices

Those whom God alone creates.
Believe in God.

APPENDIX.

I.

SKETCHES OF YOUNG MEN.

ALEXANDER OF MACEDON extended his power over Greece, conquered Egypt, rebuilt Alexandria, overran all Asia, and died at thirty-eight years of age.

Hannibal was but twenty-five when, after the fall of his father Hamilcar, and Asdrubal his successor, he was chosen commander-in-chief of the Carthaginian army. At twenty-seven, he captured Saguntum from the Romans. Before he was thirty-four, he carried his arms from Africa into Italy, conquered Publius Scipio on the banks of the Ticinus, routed Sempronius near the Trebia, defeated Flaminius on his approach to the Apennines, laid waste the whole country, defeated Fabius Maximus and Varro, marched into Capua, and at the age of thirty-five was thundering at the gates of Rome.

Scipio Africanus was scarcely sixteen when he took an active part in the battle of Canna and saved the life of his father. The wreck of the Roman cavalry chose him then for their leader, and he conducted them back to the capital. After he was twenty, he was appointed proconsul of Spain, where he took New Car

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thage by storm. Soon after he defeated successively Asdrubal, (Hannibal's brother,) Mago, and Hann, crossed over into Africa, negotiating with Syphax, the Massasylian king, returned to Spain, quelled the insurrection there, drove the Carthaginians wholly from the peninsula, returned to Rome, devised the diversion against the Carthaginians by carrying the war into Africa, crossed thither, destroyed the army of Syphax, compelled the return of Hannibal, and defeated Asdrubal a second time.

Charlemagne was crowned King of the Franks before he was twenty-six. At the age of twenty-eight, he had conquered Aquitania; at the age of thirty, he made himself master of the whole German and French Empires.

Charles XII., of Sweden, was declared of age by the States, and succeeded his father, at the age of fifteen. At eighteen, he headed the expedition against the Danes, whom he checked; and, with a fourth of their numbers, he cut to pieces the Russian army, commanded by the Czar Peter, at Narva, crossed the Dwina, gained a victory over the Saxons, and carried his arms into Poland. At twenty-one, he had conquered Poland and dictated to them a new sovereign. At twenty-four he had subdued Saxony, and at twentyseven he was conducting his victorious troops into the heart of Russia, when a severe wound prevented his taking command in person, and resulted in his overthrow and subsequent treacherous captivity in Turkey.

Lafayette was major-general in the American army at the age of eighteen; was but twenty when he was wounded at the battle of Brandywine; but twenty-two

when he raised supplies for his army, on his own credit, at Baltimore; and but twenty-three when raised to the office of commander-in-chief of the National Guards of France.

Napoleon Bonaparte commenced his military career as an officer of artillery at the siege of Toulon. His splendid campaign in Italy was performed at the age of twenty-seven. During the next year, when he was about twenty-eight, he gained battle after battle over the Austrians in Italy, conquered Mantua, carried the war into Austria, ravaged the Tyrol, concluded an advantageous peace, took possession of Milan and the Venetian Republic, revolutionized Genoa, and formed the Cisalpine Republic. At the age of twenty-nine, he received the command of the army against Egypt, scattered the clouds of Mameluke cavalry, mastered Alexandria, Aboukir, and Cairo, and wrested the land of the Pharaohs and Ptolemies from the proud descendants of the prophet. At the age of thirty he fell among the Parisians like a thunderbolt, overthrew the directorial government, dispersed the Council of Five Hundred, and was proclaimed first consul. At the age of thirty-one he crossed the Alps with an army, and destroyed the Austrians by a blow at Marengo, At the age of thirty-two he established the Code of Napoleon; in the same year he was elected consul for life by the people, and at the age of thirty-three he was declared Emperor of the French nation.

William Pitt, the first Earl of Chatham, was but twenty-seven years of age when, as a member of Parliament, he waged the war of a giant against the corruptions of Sir Robert Walpole.

The younger Pitt was scarcely twenty years of age when, with masterly power, he grappled with the veterans in Parliament in favour of America. At twenty-two he was called to the high and responsible trust of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It was his age when he came forth in his might on the affairs of the East Indies. At twenty-nine, during the first insanity of George III., he rallied around the Prince of Wales.

Edmund Burke, at the age of nineteen, planned a refutation of the metaphysical theories of Berkeley and Hume. At twenty he was in the Temple, the admiration of its inmates for the brilliancy of his genius and the variety of his acquisitions. At twenty-six he published his celebrated satire entitled "A Vindication of Natural Society." The same year he published his "Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful,”—so much admired for its spirit of philosophical investigation and the elegance of its language. At twenty-five he was First Lord of the Treasury.

George Washington was only twenty-seven years of age when he covered the retreat of the British troops at Braddock's defeat, and the same year was appointed commander-in-chief of all the Virginia forces.

General Joseph Warren was only twenty-nine years of age when, in defiance of the British soldiers stationed at the door of the church, he pronounced the celebrated oration which aroused the spirit of liberty and patriotism that terminated in the achievement of independence. At thirty-four he gloriously fell, gallantly fighting for the cause of freedom, on Bunker Hill.

Alexander Hamilton was a lieutenant-colonel in the