Jieserce Potrcr. which to draw in ca?o of an umorguncy? Or tlo we, as a nation, hastily gather a Tew Tacts, and, with them as a fighting squall, rush hurriedly into our profession, wliatever it may he ? Such is really the case. And this is one reason, not, of course, the only one, hut quite u formidable rea. son, lor so many failures. This is one reason why so 111:1113' 3'oung men choose the profession of the law and after a short trial conclude that they arc too honest to ho lawyers. "Why so 111:1113' nuthors, so 111:1113' P"cts, so 111:1113' teachers, ministers, so 111:1113- nwn 'in ovcrj' profession utter' fail. Again, reserve power gives greater force and effect to power in action. No effect, however great, ever makes a grand impression upon us, unless we can feel that behind the power shown therein is a still grciter force capable of producing nobler results. No one can look with ad miration on a race horse that shows by his panting that his powers have been ex erted to the utmost, nor can we reverence the locomotive that, seemingly, writhes and groans beneath ilstnml. However great any accomplishment may be, we can not regard its author with profound re spect, but rather with a feeling mingled with pi 13 unless we can feel that he is capable of greater tilings, that his powers have not been exerted to the utino.it, but tuat he has still a reserve power waiting in readiness for 11113' emergency. 1 might illustrate this by the public speaker. You can not reverence his production, howev er able it may be, unless behind it you sec in your mind a mini capable of producing better. You cannot love a picture that in dicates to 3011 that all the fountains of the artist's power are exhausted therein. The beauty of 11 piece of architecture, however grand it may be, is marred, unless you can conceive its author us a being cupnble of better things. In the late Prussian war it was not the Prussian needle gun, destructive as it is that achieved such brilliant victories, but the well disciplined Prussian soldier, the man behind the gun. And gazing upon its terrible effects and seeing also the man capable of making them more terrible, when the necessities of the case demanded, we pronounced the gun itself wonderful. And so I might go on and give scores of examples but space forbids. Reserve power, again, even when it can. not prevent defeat, will save rout and de spair. "When a military man throws all his force into the fight he has no resource in case he is beaten. But the man with a well arranged reserve force, will light more and more valiently after cacli over throw, and though, like Washington, he 111:13 lose more battles than he wins, will organize- victory in defeat and will tri umph in the end. So a man possessed of a broad reservoir of reserve knowledge 111:13- fail in an at tempt time and again, lie 111113' ue defeat ed in his etiorts, but the consciousness that frcs.li energies are still at his com mand will permit him to retire graceful' from the field of action and will, more over, cause him to renew his dibits, time after time, till thc3 are crowned with sue cess. As an example of this I would cite 3ou to the Rev. Itob't Hall, one of the inobt celebrated niiiiiMlers of England. His first and secon'l attempts in the pul pit were ignominious failures. Hut, , knowing that he had reserve power, had knowledge not 3'et called into PI113", he tried the third time, and from that mo ment took his high sfind both in the Eng lish pulpit aud in the renown of the world. A memorable illustration of the value of reserve power was given id the U. S. Senate in 1830, in a debate concerning the sale of public lands. The man who illus sratcd this was Daniel Webster. He had made a few remarks upon the subject, to which Mr. Hayno replied in quite a bril limit speech. In fact, he attacked Mr. Webster and his arguments even to bitter ness. But Webster, conscious of his pow er, sat calmly by, and, as the eyes of his anxious friends were cast upon him