On concluding a lecture, the first he delivered in England, on the Philosophy of Labour, Burritt said: "The man who created the Apollo Belvedere looked into the mountain-side, and saw the silver-bowed deity, invested with all his god-like attributes, in the unquarried marble. But he could not bear to see him hampered there in his lapideous shroud before his mind's eye; he seized his chisel, and with indignant strokes he tore away the ceremental marble, and let out the god before his body's eye, to be worshipped by millions, who, if they dared, might even touch his marble flesh. All the beautiful orders of architecture, all the creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and in art and in humanity, are inventions extorted, as it were, from the mind, to extend and increase the pleasures of sense. All the institutions of human government, the principles of political economy, the aspirations of patriotism, and the efforts of philanthropy, have been called forth by the necessities of our physical nature, which Divine wisdom ordained should never be supplied without the busy occupation of the mind. Our moral faculties and nature are developed by the same medium and impulse. Divine revelation has studded the whole vista of eternity with prospects, objects, rewards, and motives which appeal to our physical nature, and incite even in our senses an aspiration towards the more refined pleasures of another existence."

V.

Success in Persevering Endustry.

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"The strong momentum of an earnest man
Will leap a thousand barriers, overpower
The obstacles that trip up weaker men,
And, by God's blessing and his own strong arm,
Make the calm evening of his busy life,
Like yonder west, a glory and a grace."

|ATIENT continuance in well-doing" is the

secret of success, more important than what is termed luck, position, or even fortune. It is a fact, which all experience proves, that the man who has patience, who is industrious and prudent, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest, never complains of bad luck. "A good character, good habits, and iron industry, are impregnable to the assaults of all the ill-luck fools ever dreamed of." How often are old men met with who, at the end of wasted lives, complain that it has been ill-luck that has wrecked their hopes and destroyed their prospects; they will not admit that the ill-luck of which they complain has been of their own creating. They have had, as all have, opportunities (chances some call them), which have either been neglected or disregarded.

Henry Ward Beecher said: "I may here, as well as anywhere, impart the secret of what is called good and bad luck. There are men who, supposing Providence to have an implacable spite against them, bemoan in the poverty of a wretched old age the misfortunes of their lives. Luck for ever ran against them, and for others. One, with a good profession, lost his luck in the river, where he idled away his time fishing, when he should have been in the office. Another, with a good trade, perpetually burned up his luck by his hot temper, which provoked all his employers to leave him. Another, with a lucrative business, lost his luck by amazing diligence at everything but his business. Another, who steadily followed his trade, as steadily followed his bottle. Another, who was honest and constant at his work, erred by perpetual misjudgments; -he lacked discretion. Hundreds lose their luck by endorsing, by sanguine speculations, by trusting fraudulent men, and by dishonest gains. A man never has good luck who has a bad wife. I never knew an earlyrising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest, who complained of bad luck. When I see a tatterdemalion creeping out of a grocery late in the forenoon, with his hands stuck into his pockets, the rim of his hat turned up, and the crown knocked in, I know he has had bad luck; for the worst of all luck is to be a sluggard, a knave, or a tippler."

Instead of the admission that ill-luck is self-created, that the bankrupt and disappointed man Owes his

failure and his disappointment to himself, to wild speculation, extravagant living, and lack of perseverance and energy, he whines and complains that he has had no luck, and "all has been against him." Another man, starting in the race at the same time, who possibly has been despised owing to dulness and a want of capability, has won an honourable and a lucrative position, not by luck or any special circumstances, but as the result of hard work, effort, and "keeping at it."

One of the most successful men of modern times was Walter Powell, Melbourne and London merchant. His success will no doubt be attributed to the discovery of the gold fields, and his being in business in Melbourne at the time of the "rush ;" and being able to supply the articles needed by the thousands who flocked to Australia to "make their fortunes." It would be idle not to admit that Powell had a rare opportunity in the gold discovery; but others, who became bankrupts, had a similar opportunity. They had the same luck; but they were not alike in prudence and conduct. While one, heartless, spiritless, and disappointed, sank out of sight, the other, by the blessing of God upon resolute adherence to well-formed habits and well-laid principles, rose from a lowly station to abundance and position, consideration and influence.

Powell's father had left England in the hope of finding in Tasmania a home and the means of rearing his family. On his arriving in the new colony he soon lost the little money he brought with him, and was reduced to great straits. To help his father, young

Powell engaged himself to a master, who, like his father, was subjected to great reverses. Walter, in order if possible to redeem his master's position, worked like a slave, toiling far into the night, and at the same time insisting upon the reduction of his salary, as he saw the business could not afford the amount he had

been receiving. "I know," he wrote, "that my employer is my friend, and that his intentions toward me were liberal: he took me when I was at a loss for employment, and I shall not leave him till I see him. re-established." A very early and commendable custom, which Powell continued through life, was to keep a diary. In its first pages he wrote: "During the month I have been reading the life of Dr. Adam Clarke, and have been particularly struck with his great industry and perseverance. His labours were so gigantic that a person of average energy might well be appalled at their vastness. He redeemed the time. He secured thousands of hours which are generally wasted. that his example may be followed by me." The discomforts of the colony were fully experienced when Powell married his master's daughter; but regularity, perseverance, punctuality, self-denial, and economy, combined with continuous industry, crushed into smoothness all difficulties. During this period he was subject to much illness and weakness. After a voyage to England for the restoration of his health, he resolved upon venturing into business upon his own account. Before commencing, he took a situation for a year in order to pay off some encumbrances and to enable him

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