pacities ? One thing we can truly say of the following sheets; they are not idle speculations. Our heart is in them, and our life's results. That they may be a means to answer life's problem to earnest souls, is our only ambition. With this, knowing that truth is never spoken in vain, we send them forth.

VERY man that is born into life has for his

task to find his destiny, or to make one. This he must accomplish, or be condemned to the greatest of all miseries, the misery of being conscious of capacities without the proper objects to satisfy them."

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The question that agitates the mind of man, as soon as the eye of reason opens, is that of his destiny. The idea of God, himself, and the world around him, strikes him at that moment, as separate and independent facts. The charm that surrounded his innocent childhood is broken; he enters upon a new sphere of life; and, with feelings of surprise, he asks: "Who am I?" "Whence did I come ?" tend ? "

"Who is God?"

"Whither do I

"What are my

relations to God? to man? to the world around me ?" "Have I a destiny? A work to do? What is it? And where? or is all ruled by Fate? or left to what men call Chance

"No When,-no Where,-no How, but that we are, And nought besides!"*

These, and similar questions, are the first to spring up at the dawn of reason, in the minds of those who have no fixed notions of religion. Alas! this is the condition, deny it who may, of the great mass of American youth.

*Milnes.