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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 14, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 15.

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WHEN YOU STUDY, STUDY.

LORD MACAULAY, the celebrated historian, was a great student, and when he studied, he studied. He used to get up at five o'clock, and study till nine or ten. He got so he could read Latin and Greek right off-hand the same as you can this. He had the power of putting his whole mind on his book. Many people put part of their mind on their work, and the rest on something else. But all this is wrong. Play when you play, and when you study, study. In study all the faculties are needed; reason to judge of what you read; memory to recollect it, and so with all the rest. Macaulay became one of the most distinguished writers of his time, and it was mainly by dint of this early habit of putting his entire mind at the disposal of the work before him. All cannot study alike, but we can all be deeply in earnest in whatever it is that we do, and only downright earnestness will cause us to succeed in life.—Young Churchman.