Knowing the earnestness of that older generation across the sea in the matter of teaching their children. knowing the anxieties of the farewells and the admonitions of parents who sent their young men and maidens away to be for a season strangers in a new strange land. I know how well these words of St. Paul lend themselves as a summary of the prayers and counsels accompanying an immigrant boy. It is good that a youth setting his face toward the future at the prow of a westbound ship could say "The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want." It is good that in young manhood with its life and labor one could say. "He leadeth me beside the still waters." It is blessed that a man in the turmoil and conflicts of life knows the way to Gods mercy seat and can say. "He restoreth my soul." It is well for the leader. and well for the people he leads. when a man. knowing the burden of his responsibility. can say "He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness." But thrice blessed is the man who. when the day with its work is done. can say with an unfaltering trust in Christ the Saviour. "Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil. for Thou art with me." Such was his souls confidence as attested to me by the pastor who had stood by the deathbed at Rochester.
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