some science throughout his life, in order to remain at the source of
all true knowledge. Here he learns to appreciate the language of
nature. When expressed by man, this is poetry.


THEREFORE, READ POETRY.

Ten minutes a day with Tennyson, Browning, Emerson, or Lowell,
will teach one a new language, by which he may converse with the
wind, talk with the birds, chat with the brook, speak with the flowers,
and hold discourse with the sun, moon, and stars. The deepest and
mightiest thoughts of all ages have been expressed in poetry, the
language of nature. "Poetry," says Coleridge, "is the blossom and
fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, passions,
emotions, languages."


READ BOOKS OF RELIGION.

"Religion," says Lyman Abbott, "is the life of God in the soul."
Every truly religious book treats of this life. The only purely
religious book is the Bible. It is the source and inspiration of every
other religious book. The Bible is a "letter from God to man, handed
down from heaven and written by inspired men." Its message is free
salvation for all men through Jesus Christ; its spirit is divine love. No
wise person is without this letter, and every thoughtful and devout
person reads it daily. One may never find time to follow a course of
study, nor to pursue a plan of daily reading; he may never know the
wealth of Dante, the grandeur of Milton, nor the genius of Shakespeare,
but every one may make the Bible his daily companion and guide.