And listen they did, until the very men who had gone to the hall threatening even bodily harm if necessary to prevent the orator from speaking applauded him before he left the platform.

Emerson tells us, "The hero is the man who is immovably centered." That man or that woman who is backed by a great motive is "immovably centered." The tonic of such a motive is greater even than the tonic of success. To fight for a great aim is success, the noblest of all successes. The tonic of a great motive, or the blighting, blasting effect of the lack of it, is illustrated every day, even in the most isolated communities.

Every human being is sent into the world to co-operate with the Creator in working for some great motive. Can there be a greater stimulus to endeavor than this? Can anything be more inspiring, more heartening and sustaining than the fact that one is born for a glorious purpose, to fill a grand mission in life?

The representatives of great sovereigns, ambassadors of foreign countries at Washington, feel enlarged, ennobled because of their commission. They reflect the dignity of the country and the ruler they represent. They show it in their bearing, in their air of confidence and assurance, an assurance that is backed by the power and authority and the support of a great nation. They feel enlarged, strengthened by the power they represent, just as Mr. Wilson felt an added power and dignity when elected to the presidency.

When a human being realizes that he is an ambassador of the Almighty; that he was sent here to play a special part in the drama of the race, that he was entrusted by his Sovereign with the performance of a divine service in the working out of the great plan of the universe, it adds tremendously to his self-confidences, gives him a great added force of power and dignity. The sense of a sublime mission gives definiteness, fine poise and balance to one's life. It keeps one always in tune with the Infinite.

If you would conquer in life and prove worthy of your ambassadorship, if you would realize your dignity you must hold the royal thought, you must feel the greatness of your origin, of your inheritance. This will buttress you against all failure and disappointment, give you courage and strength to fight on, even against superhuman odds, until you attain that for which you fight.

There is no more potent success tonic than the constant reminder of the larger, the greater possible self involved in every child of God. There is something in every one of us infinitely bigger, stronger, more capable than what we have yet evolved. There is a grander possibility for you than anything you have yet done. Until you have drawn out and used every atom of your greater reserves, you don't know what you are capable of. The limit of human power has not yet been reached. Man has godlike possibilities.

WILL IT PAY TO GO TO

COLLEGE—IF SO
WHERE?

Education is the cutting and polishing of a rough diamond.

Does it pay to experience the joy of self-discovery, to open up whole continents of possibilities in one's nature which might otherwise remain undiscovered?

Does it pay to have one's mentality stirred by the passion for expansion, to feel the tonic of growth, the indescribable satisfaction which comes from the consciousness of perpetual enlargement?

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VERY year thousands of boys and girls are asking this question in one form or another—Shall I go to college? Does a college education pay? Can I afford it? Young people are constantly asking my advice as to how they shall answer the question. Here are two letters recently received typical of the many that come to me on the subject. They represent the two classes of boys that go to college: the one whose parents pay his way through, and the one who must work and pay his own way as he goes.

The first of these is from a New York boy. He writes:

"My parents want me to go to college, but I

want to get a job and go into business just as soon as I graduate from high school. I don't see what good a college education is going to be to me, as I am expecting to become a business man and not a lawyer, or a doctor, or anything of that sort. My folks asked me to write to you about this matter." The other is from a country boy, who says:

"I am a farmer's son, but I want to become a lawyer. I am healthy and strong, but my folks can not afford to send me through college. I have read lots of stories about boys who have worked their way through college, but my folks think that most of these stories are yarns, and they think it would be almost impossible for a fellow like me to work his way, I wish you would tell me just what you think about this matter."

Having started life as a poor boy, and worked my way through school and college, and having had a lot of all kinds of experience since my graduation, from a personal viewpoint, I have no hesitation in saying, that, provided a boy or girl is determined to get the most possible out of it, nothing else in life will pay better than a college education, even though it must be obtained by sacrifice and great effort.

But the question whether every boy and girl should go to college can not be answered so readily.

Thousands in the graduating classes of our high schools and fitting schools are now wrestling with this great life-question, whether or not they shall

continue their education in a college or university. All sorts of opinions prevail regarding this problem of higher education, consequently, various kinds of advice will be given to those seeking it, according to the different viewpoints of the advisers. You will find some who will talk scornfully about "college-bred failures" and "book-learned fools." Others will speak boastfully of the successful men whose only course of study has been in the University of Hard Knocks.

On the other hand, you will find those who exaggerate the value and importance of a college education. For instance, some will claim that no one can have a thorough appreciation of life's values unless he spends four years or more in some college or university. Others will quote statistics to show that the college-bred man has superior chances for success.

It is well, therefore, to weigh this question carefully and look at it from all sides, neither minimizing nor exaggerating its importance.

Let it be clearly understood then, at the start, that it is a fact that some men actually have been injured by their college course. They have been turned out of college mere impractical theorists. Their book learning has been a hindrance rather than a help in the competitive struggle for exist

ence.

On the other side, it is also a fact that there are tens of thousands even of successful men who