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Esau anp Jacos—rur Twin BRoTuers.

“Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help.” —Psalm cxlut., 5.

“Esau, a profane person, who, for one morsel of meat, sold his birthright.”—
Fleb, Xtt., I4.

“He who spends all his life in sport is like a man who wears nothing but fringes,
and eats nothing but sauces.”—Zhomas Fuller.

We get back our mete as we measure—
We cannot do wrong and feel right;
Nor can we give pain and gain pleasure,
For justice avenges each slight.
The air for the wings of the sparrow,
The bush for the robin and wren,
But always the path that is narrow
And straight for the children of men.
—Anonymous.

How beautiful is youth—early manhood, how wonderfully fair! what freshness
of life, clearness of blood, purity of breath! What hopes? There is nothing too
much for the young maid or man to put into their dream, and in their prayer to hope
to put into their day. O boys and girls! O young men and maidens! there is no
picture of ideal excellence of manhood and womanhood that I ever draw that seems
too high, too beautiful, for your young hearts.— Theodore Parker.

In our study of the tragic story of the world’s first
brothers—Cain and Abel—we were called to note the remark-
able difference in character and disposition between the two
boys. Born in the same home, nursed on the lap of the same
mother, they were as unlike as two boys well could be. But
in this story of the world’s first twin-brothers, Esau and Jacob,
the difference was even greater. If you could think of a dark
Italian boy, with beetling brows and keen, black eyes, and a

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