3. Of the fifty millions of people in the United States, one-third were workers, earning at least one dollar a day, or three hundred dollars a year. Their aggregate earnings were for one year, five billions of dollars. To assert that the work of an educated body of men is worth at least ten per cent. more for that reason is to make the premium ridiculously small. Yet at this ratio the value added to these workers by their education amounts to five hundred millions of dollars per annum, which is more than five times the cost per annum of the public schools of the country.

This enumeration ceases, not for want of material, but for want of room, and because enough has been made to serve our purposes.

It will be observed that these questions have been discussed upon their lowest, material pecuniary plane. This has been done purposely. If on these lines we show that the great body of workers, whose labors are given to guide the way to better lives and nobler thoughts, are the most efficient producers in the land, how much more shall their value be appreciated when to these measurable benefits are added those which are beyond computation in any units known to the science or laws of wealth.

Here, then, we find a multitude of the noble men and women of these United States. They who have trained the children and youth of the land in intelligence and integrity, in all ranks, from the district school to the university; they who have used the press as an irresistible engine to spread the truth and to extirpate evil; they who, as the ministers of Christ's gospel, have led and lifted the people upon higher planes of faith, and hope, and charity; they who, in ministering to the sick, have prolonged human life, or have mitigated the anguish of the dying bed; they who have defended the right as known before the law, or have flung abroad the law's

serried lightnings to punish wrong, or to prevent crime; they who have guided the ship of state wisely, in smooth or in dangerous waters, maintaining the integrity of the nation, the justice of its claims, the prowess of its arms, the perpetuity of its institutions; they who with voice or pen have pleaded the cause of the poor, the lowly, the enslaved; they who have lifted the hearts of the people, filling them with nobler aspirations, higher wishes, grander purposes; they who in any of these, or in a myriad of other ways, have done what they could for right, justice, humanity, fatherland, God and His Christ, these are OUR COUNTRY'S NOBLEMEN.

BA Ratrag

THE SUN'S INFLUENCES.

BY

O. N. STODDARD, D. D.

REAT principles underlie everything

a man learns or does. The most

simple things have relations. that extend beyond our sight. The boundaries of knowledge recede, like the horizon, as we advance; but there is always

an unknown beyond. It must be so when finite minds are related to the Infinite. The simplest facts of science are, in their last analysis, beyond our reach. Everything begins in mystery and ends in mystery. Our years here are just as much a part of eternity as those in the future world. We are now in eternity—a little detached portion of it - with its peculiar surroundings. The changes in passing from this to the other world, leaves untouched the essentials of our being. We awake from the dream of death and know ourselves to be ourselves. Memory, with its links of steel, bridges the chasm, and a consciousness of identity lives on forever. O the tiny rivulets of knowledge here, nay, the drops that make them, spread out