travel on without wasting even a moment in regret.

* * * * *

We are on the way from the imperfect to the perfect; some day, in this
life or some other, we shall reach our destiny. It is as much the part
of folly to waste time and cripple our forces in vain, unproductive
regrets in regard to the occurences of the past as it is to cripple our
forces through fears and forebodings for the future.

There is no experience in any life which if rightly recognized, rightly
turned and thereby wisely used, cannot be made of value; many times
things thus turned and used can be made sources of inestimable gain;
ofttimes they become veritable blessings in disguise.

* * * * *

'Tis the sweetest thing to remember
If courage be on the wane.
When the cold, dark days are over--
Why, the birds go north again.

_Ella Higginson_

* * * * *

Nothing is more subtle than thought, nothing more powerful, nothing more
irresistible in its operations, when rightly applied and held to with a
faith and fidelity that is unswerving,--a faith and fidelity that never
knows the neutralizing effects of doubt and fear. If one have