them rejoice, when they see in each one of you one of the fairest
sights on earth, before men and before God; a docile and innocent boy
striving to become a wise and virtuous man.

And whenever you are tempted to idleness and frivolity; whenever you
are tempted to profligacy and low-mindedness; whenever you are
tempted--as you will be too often in these mean days--to join the
scorners and the fools whom Solomon denounced; tempted to sneering
unbelief in what is great and good, what is laborious and self-
sacrificing, and to the fancy that you were sent into this world
merely to get through it agreeably;--then fortify and ennoble your
hearts by Solomon's vision. Remember who you are, and where you are-
-that you stand before the Temple of Wisdom, of the science of things
as God has made them; wherein alone is health and wealth for body and
for soul; that from within the Heavenly Lady calls to you, sending
forth her handmaidens in every art and science which has ever
ministered to the good of man; and that within there await you all
the wise and good who have ever taught on earth, that you may enter
in and partake of the feast which their mistress taught them to
prepare. Remember, I say, who you are--even the sons of God; and
remember where you are--for ever upon sacred ground; and listen with
joy and hope to the voice of the Heavenly Wisdom, as she calls--
'Whoso is simple, let him come in hither; and him that wanteth
understanding, let him come and eat of my bread, and drink of the
wine that I have mingled.'

Listen with joy and hope: and yet with fear and trembling, as of
Moses when he hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God. For
the voice of Wisdom is none other than the voice of The Spirit of
God, in whom you live, and move, and have your being.