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ow touching is the account given us in Scripture of the farewell which the youthful Tobias took of his blind father and his weeping mother in order to go forth into a strange country. How touching is the lamentation: " Woe, woe is me, my son, why did we send thee to go to a strange country, the light of our eyes, the staff of our old age, the comfort of our life, the hope of our posterity? "

A similar feeling of sadness steals into my heart, now that I have arrived at the conclusion of these instructions. You, my young friend, are about to go forth into life, into all the thousand perils and pitfalls which in the present day, more than ever, threaten to