places in history, crowned with immortal honors. In thousands of humble homes are dwelling heroes and patriots, whose names shall never die. But greatest among all these developments were the character and fame of Abraham Lincoln, whose loss the nation still deplores. His character is aptly described in the words of England's great laureate written thirty years ago in which he traces the upward steps of "Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began, Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, Who makes by force his merit known, And moving up from high to higher, The center of a world's desire.' Such a life and character will be treasured forever as the sacred possession of the American people and of mankind. In the great drama of the rebellion, there were two acts. The first was the war, with its battles and sieges, victories and defeats, its sufferings and tears. That act was closing one year ago to-night, and just as the curtain was lifting on the second and final act, the restoration of peace and liberty, just as the curtain was rising upon new events and new characters, - the evil spirit of the Rebellion, in the fury of despair, nerved and directed the hand of the assassin to strike down the chief character in both. It was no one man who killed Abraham Lincoln ; it was the embodied spirit of treason and slavery, inspired with fearful and despairing hate, that struck him down in the moment of the nation's supremest joy. “Ah, sir, there are times in the history of men and nations when they stand so near the veil that separates mortals from immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite! Through such a time has this nation passed. When two hundred and fifty thousand brave spirits passed from the field of honor through that thin veil to the presence of God, and when at last its parting folds admitted the martyr President to the company of the dead heroes of the Republic, the nation stood so near the veil that the whispers of God were heard by the children of men. . "Awe-stricken by His voice, the American people knelt in tearful reverence and made a solemn covenant with Him and with each other that this nation should be saved from its enemies, that all its glories should be restored, and on the ruins of treason and slavery the temples of freedom and justice should be built, and should survive forever. It remains for us, consecrated by that great event, and under a covenant with God, to keep that faith, to go forward in the great work until it shall be completed. "Following the lead of that great man, and obeying the high behests of God, let us remember that — "He has sounded forth a trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat. Be swift my soul to answer him, be jubilant my feet; For God is marching on."" Upon the conclusion of General Garfield's remarks the motion was adopted, and the House adjourned. XXIV. ADDRESSES. HE world worships success. In 1860 General TH Grant was unknown beyond the streets of Galena; but in 1880 the whole world turns out to honor him. The great names of history are of men who have succeeded in what they have undertaken. Peace hath victories mightier than those of the sword. Men are beginning to estimate victories by the benefits which they confer upon the human race. Not in the future, as in the past, will they be estimated by the number of soldiers slain, the cannon taken, or the rout of a defeated army, but by what men can do for their fellow-men. Bernard Pallissy, a poor potter in France, saw an enameled cup that had been brought from Italy. How was the glazing put on? He would find out. It is this determination to accomplish things which is the start ing-point on the road to success. Pallissy built a furnace, made experiments, but the enamel would not fuse. Six nights in succession, with scarcely a wink of sleep, he sat beside the furnace. His fuel was gone. He had not time to go for more, nor had he money to buy it. He broke up the chairs and hurled them in, split the table into kindling-wood. More wood! More wood! He rips up the floor and feeds the flame. His weeping wife thinks him a lunatic. Victory! The enamel melts, and he becomes the world's benefactor. The walks of life are illumined by such successes. James A. Garfield determined to be a teacher. It was a "definite object." He succeeded; and all that has followed is the natural outgrowth of his determination. What are the elements of success? 'You must select your work," says Emerson; "you shall take what your brain can and drop all the rest." No one is so competent to tell us how to succeed as he who has succeeded, and so we turn to an address given by General Garfield before the Consolidated Business College in Washington in 1869, on the Elements of Success. "Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "I have consented to address you this evening chiefly for two reasons, — one of them personal to myself, the other public. The personal reason is, that I have a deep and peculiar sympathy with young people who are engaged in any department of education. Their pursuits are to me not only matters of deep interest, but of profound mystery. It will not, perhaps, flatter you older people when I say I have less interest in you than in these young people. With us, the great questions of life are measurably settled. Our days go on, their shadows lengthening as we approach nearer to that evening which will soon deepen ́into the night of life; but before these young people are the dawn, the sunrise, the coming noon - all the wonders and mysteries of life. For ourselves, much |