9. As the marksman prides himself on the certainty of his aim, so should we, in a higher and more noble sense, study to make our generous deeds sure. We must not perform our good offices at random, but so regulate and direct them as to render them serviceable at the proper time, and place, and circumstance. Thus, unlike the Indian, who desires his bow and arrows buried with him, that he may possess them in the happy hunting-grounds where the Great Spirit dwells, let us hope that the odor of our benevolent actions shall precede us, and trust that the influence of those actions shall be felt and realized after all that is mortal of us shall have perished.

CHAPTER IV.

HOEVER will sacrifice his ease, his substance, or his life, to serve or save a friend, is truly actuated by the spirit of Friendship. There have been those who have offered their lives for their friends. There was one, also, who, to aid and deliver his persecuted race, abandoned all the pleasures and endearments of the world, and willingly endured privation, calamity, and trouble, through motives of love and friendship such as few men have felt or practised.

2. And God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image,