TRUE NOBLES AND HEROES.

 

CHAPTER I.

“We have seen those faces in days of yore,
When the dust was on their brow,
And the scalding tear-drop on their cheek :
Let us look at those heroes now.”

NOBLE deeds! a noble life!
a noble man! are expressions
often upon our tongues,
begetting true homage from
young and old. But why
should not owr lives be noble

= est lives? Why should not we

have noble deeds recorded in ow life’s his-
tory? Why should not the humblest-born
of us be anoble man? Earthly patents of
nobility are often given, without attaching
or carrying any true nobility with them.

Would that the New Testament patent of

nobility were true of us in these days as it

was in ages past, “of those who hazarded