BOYS OF THE BIBLE. 21

ties that the foundations of your freedom might be laid
securely. It will be your grand privilege to rear the temple
in beauty, course on course, to the very heavens.

The home looks to you to build up a beautiful ideal
home life, which is the chief hope and surest safeguard of
the State. The Church looks to you to fill its pulpits and
guard the sacred fires upon its altars. Justice looks to you
to fill its judgment-thrones, and to hold the scales with a
righteous, impartial hand. Science and Art and Literature
are offering to you the high places of honor and the secrets
of learning. The State waits to see in you the dream of a
perfect patriotism fulfilled, the type of citizenship that scorns
alike the briber and the bribe, that counts all duties sacred
privileges, and every burden a badge of honor.

Boys of America! Accept this sincere and earnest
greeting. Remember Dr. Sutton’s conundrum. Remember
that boys are the only material out of which men can be
made. And remember, too, that the most real of all real
things is Life!

“Life is beautiful, its duties cluster round us day by aay,

And their sweet and solemn voices warn to watch, and work, and pray.

Only they its blessings forfeit, who by sin their spirit cheat ;
And to slothful stupor yielding, let the rust their armor eat.”