How happy is a child when a school-lesson, long laboured over, is mastered at last! The athlete, who has trained his body through long months or years of discipline and strain, is richly blessed in his increased health and strength; and is met with the rejoicings of his friends when he carries home the prize from the field of contest. After many years of ungrudging toil, the heart of the scholar is gladdened with the advantages and powers which learning bestows. The business man, grappling incessantly with difficulties and drawbacks, is amply repaid in the happy assurance of well-earned success; and the horticulturist, vigorously contending with the stubborn soil, sits down at last to cat of the fruits of his labour.
Every successful accomplishment, even in worldly things, is repaid with
