THE OTHER SIDE.
“All mankind must serve; the widest sway
Is but the law of service.”—FESTUS.
“I rejoice in the decline of the old brutal and tyrannical system of teaching, which, however, did succeed in enforcing habits of application, but the new system, as it seems to me, is training up a race of men who will be incapable of doing anything which is disagreeable to them.”—John Stuart Mill in his Autobiography.
The Other Side.
“This is a hard world,” said a morbid girl of fourteen some forty years ago.
“Yes,” answered cheerfully the well-known apostle to whom she spoke, “and God meant it should be a hard world.”