Speaking further of the trials of youth, the depression, despondencies,
doubts, and waverings whioh alternate with moods of high hope and ambition, Mr. Kipling declared that the chief cure was "to interest yourself in some issue not personal to youreelf,—in another man's trouble, or preferably another man's joy."—Was it not Abraham Lincoln who said "To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own" P—If the dark hour did not vanish, we must remember that there were no liars like our own sensations. "If for any reason you cannot believe, or have not been taught to believe, in the infinite mercy of Heaven, which has made us all and will take care we do not go far astray, at least believe that you are not yet sufficiently important to be taken too seriously by the powers above us or beneath us. In other words, take anything and everything seriously except yourselves."
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