Discouragements.

Patience.

unceasing he must instruct the pupils committed to his charge. One may be quick to apprehend, and ready and attentive in all his tasks, while others are drones and laggards. But he must adapt himself to all. He may be obliged to repeat again and again, processes and explanations the most simple in their nature, and still realize the disheartening truth that he has failed in making them understood by dull and indolent members of his class. He may see his instructions disregarded, and his good advice thrown away. But he must be meek and patient still, and renew his attempts as though all were equally apt to learn and teachable in spirit, and never yield and never tire in his exertions for the improvement and welfare of the company that are gathered around him. Indulgent parents may pour into his ear the complaints of pampered and fault-finding children, who have perhaps escaped unwhipped of justice, which, but for the kindness of his heart, would have been meted out to them. But he must take it all in sympathy and meekness, and still strive to go on in harmony. Who can tell the heart-eating cares that beset the life of the teacher in his accustomed round of tasks? Who can recount the burdens that he bears on his bosom during his waking moments, and the perplexities that disturb his midnight slumbers?

Imperishable material.

Extent of influence.

Such is a picture of the daily life of the teacher. As an occupation, as a means of support and pastime, it can not compare in independence and comfortable living with that of the cultivation of the earth. But what is the end of his labors? The work which the teacher accomplishes is unending in its results. Eternity will alone suffice to measure the fruits of his industry. He works upon a material that will never perish. When he labors to bring into operation all those faculties with which the minds of his pupils are endowed, and inspires by his enthusiasm their young hearts with a love for learning, and a reverence for the truths of science, and the beauties of literature, he wakes to action the energies of a living soul,-he tunes an instrument strung by the hand of the Creator, that will never cease to yield harmonious sounds. He disciplines, and trains for usefulness in life, those who come under his charge. But the influence of that training is not confined to those who received it. They go forth into life to impart to others in turn what they have realized;

"And each, as he receives the flame,
Will light his altar with its ray."

What calling merely secular can equal in dignity a work like this? What profession in which the re

Co-worker with the Creator.

The Lawyer.

sponsibilities are so great, in which the future teems with results so momentous? The teacher is no less a personage than a co-worker with the Creator in the highest manifestations of his power. Without development, the mind of man is naught but a blank, a waste without beauty and without use. But when the hand of culture is laid upon it, it praises alike the handiwork of the Creator, and the developments it receives from him who trains it. So that the work of the latter approximates in dignity to the former.

There is a grandeur in the profession of the law which is hardly equaled among the callings of life. Though so often sneered at and despised, for the reason that no profession is more shamefully abused by many of the class who should defend its honor and uphold its dignity, yet in its true purpose, and in its legitimate results it challenges our respect and veneration. It is the business of the lawyer to search out the facts which shall show innocence or guilt, and thereby establish justice. The notion of a judgment for the purpose of establishing right, is one that inheres in the human mind, and is essential to veracity and honor. We can scarcely conceive a more exalted idea than that of a general judgment, when all the wrongs of ages shall be righted, when the rights of the abused and long-suffering shall be vindicated. But such is the daily labor of the law

Defense of the guilty.

Dignity of the law.

His office is to correct the wrongs which man yer. suffers at the hands of his fellow-man. The idea very generally prevails, that an advocate can not take up on the side of the guilty without compromising his honor and his integrity. But even the culprit has rights which should be respected and defended. Because he is in the hands of the law and powerless, he should not be abused by the party that is interested to crush him. He should not be made to suffer for more than he is guilty of. It is quite as honorable to defend and protect conscientiously the rights of the accused, as to be engaged in the prosecution, and even more creditable to a man's heart:

"For earthly power shows likest God's
When mercy seasons justice."

The honest advocate does not agree to prove a man innocent when he is guilty,—to misrepresent and falsify to gain the suit of his client; but to see that no more than justice be done,--that the rights and privileges of that client are respected, and that he secure "even-handed" justice. In this light, the profession of the law is noble and dignified. It awakens the finest feelings and sensibilities of the heart to feel that one is the vindicator of the injured, and taxes the noblest powers of the intellect to search out and set in order the facts that shall inevitably

Teacher successful, Lawyer's "occupation 's gone."

conduct to justice. To feel that the life or death of the client, the happiness or misery of an innocent and dependent family may hang upon his words, is sufficient to arouse him to the utmost of his capacity, and to inspire him with unwonted vigor.

But the genuine faithful teacher does more than this. He is not only a vindicator of justice and a defender of truth and virtue, when trampled on by the offender, but he performs this labor prospectively. He labors to establish in the character, principles that are antagonistic to vice and crime, and to nurture in the heart sentiments and feelings which shall direct in the paths of rectitude and honor. His office is to smooth and polish the gem whose ragged corners would otherwise tear and lacerate whatever it chanced to come in contact with. He subdues the spirit of contention, he inculcates the universal brotherhood of man, and lifts his pupils up above the petty spirit of jealousy and revenge, which leads to those endless and harassing difficulties that principally occupy the time of the lawyer. The dignity of these duties is apparent. They supersede in spirit the necessity of the legal profession, and hence rise above it in honor. Whenever the mission of the schoolmaster shall be made perfectly successful, then the lawyer's "occupation 's gone."

We prize beyond the value of gold those master