Time is the cradle of hope, but the grave of delusion. Time is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counsellor of the wise. Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it. He that has made Time his friend will have little to fear from his enemies; but he that made time his enemy will have little to hope from his friends. Hear this, ye young! It is high time even for you to awake: for the hours of youthful hope and spirits bear but a small portion in "memory's backward view," to the whole of life. But be assured that they do bear to it a most important proportion, if even now you become formed to love and serve your God. O, happy, happy he, "whose yesterdays look backward with a smile?" His tomorrow brightens with a "joy unspeakable and full of glory."