I saw myself a member of this body, and felt deeply the truth then uttered by you, that just in proportion as each member thinks of and works for himself alone will that individual be working in selfish disorder, and, like the member of the human body that takes more than its share of blood, must certainly suffer the pain of inflammation.

The truth then presented to my mind was like a flood of light; but I did not love the truth, and shut my eyes to the light that revealed more than I wished to know.

Ah, sir! if I could have accepted all you then advanced--if I could have overcome the false principle of self-seeking then so clearly shown to be the curse of life--I would not have involved myself in business that must now separate me for months from my home and family." "And should you achieve all that was anticipated in the beginning," said Mr.Allison, "I doubt if you will find pleasure enough in the realization to compensate for this hour of pain, to say nothing of what you are destined to suffer during the months of separation that are before you." "Your doubts are my own," replied Markland, musingly.

"But,"-- and he spoke in a quicker and lighter tone,--"this is all folly! I must go forward, now, to the end.

Why, then, yield to unmanly weakness ?" "True, sir," returned the old man.