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![ao tliat the whole occupation of the student's time, whetiu;]- in work or in phiy, may be instructive. But whatever you choose for your amusements, let me advise you not to be too ambitious of pre-eminence in it. Very few men can be eminent in more than one thing. Whoever can be eminent in one is bound to be so in that which is his duty; but whether with ability for eminence or not, that in which alone ambition can be safe is the work for which we are responsible—the work of onr profession. Let our ambition look only along the line of duty; there it may soar safely, and may look full at its highest object, neither diizzled nor ashamed. And now that I have done advising, let me heartily wish you all the happiness that I have tried to point the way to; and let me end by telling you in what that happiness may be found. It is not likely to be in wealth, or complete ease, or luxuiy of life; nor yet in titles or high social or political influence. These things are so rarely attained in our profession that it woidd be dishonest to hold them out to you as probable rewards of even the most laborious work. But (suffer me to quote myself) the opportunities for happiness which our profes- sion offers freely to those who work dutifully are in these things— Competency of living; the society of educated men ; blessings from the poor; recompense, with gratitude, from the rich; boundless fields for intellectual exercise; access to the richest stoi-es of knowledge ' for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate ;' daily inducements to the exercise of the highest Christian virtues. I can wish you no greater eai-tlily happiness than, witli health and peaceful liomes, you may enjoy in these things. Sucli happiness I wish to all. Tlie delights of intellectual exercise are, I know, hardly to be attained by some, while practical duties must be done laboriously, and almost alone, by night and day; but the happiness of virtue is within the read) of us all. For herein is, indeed, the unmatched excellence of (Hir profession, that its ordinary and daily occupation may be in the exercise of the highest moi-al duties. No one of iis need go out of his daily path for occasions of being active in charity and all virtue. Without preaching, he may teacli lessons of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21507326_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
