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<p align=3D"center" style=3D"font: 14px; "><span style=3D"color: #FFFF=
FF; ">Joachim took a pencil, and sat down. _Now_ he thought he should be ab=
le to please his Mother; but, alas, he found to his surprise, that the fine=
faces he tried to recall had not left that vivid impression on his brain w=
hich enabled him to represent them. On the contrary, he was tormented and b=
affled by visions of the odd forms and grotesque countenances he had so oft=
en pictured. He seized the Indian-rubber and rubbed out nose after nose to =
no purpose, for he never could replace them with a better. Drawing was his =
favourite amusement; and this disappointment, where he expected success, br=
oke down his already depressed heart. He threw the book from him, and burst=
into a flood of tears. " Joachim! have you drawn him? What makes you =
cry?" " I cannot draw him, Mother," sobbed the distressed bo=
y. " And why not? Just look here; here is an admirable likeness of squ=
inting Joe, as you have named him. Why cannot you draw the handsome boy?&qu=
ot; " Because his face is so handsome!" answered Joachim, still s=
obbing. " My son," said his Mother gravely, " you have now a=
sad lesson to learn, but a necessary and a wholesome one. Get up, desist f=
rom crying, and listen to me." Poor Joachim, who loved his mother dear=
ly, obeyed. " Joachim! your Aunt, and your Cousins, and your schoolfel=
lows have all called you clever. In what does your cleverness consist? I wi=
ll tell you. In the Reproduction of Deformity, Defects, Failings, and Misfo=
rtunes of every sort, that fall under your observation. A worthy employment=
truly! A noble ambition! But I will now tell you the truth about yourself.=
You never heard it before, and I feel sure you will benefit now. A good or=
an evil Genie, I know not which, has bestowed upon you a great power; and =
you have misused it. Do you know what that power is?" Joachim shook hi=
s head, though he trembled all over, for he felt as if awaking from along d=
ream, to the recollection of the Genie. " It is the power of Imitation=
, Joachim; I call it a great power, for it is essential to many great and u=
seful things. It is essential to the orator, the linguist, the artist, and =
the musician. Nature herself teaches us the charm of _imitation_, when in t=
he smooth and clear lake you see the lovely landscape around mirrored and _=
repeated_. What a lesson may we not read in this sight! The commonest po=
nd even that reflects the foliage of the tree that hangs over it, is callin=
g out to us to reproduce for the solace and ornament of life, the beautiful=
works of God. But oh, my son, my dear son, you have abused this gift of Im=
itation, which might be such a blessing and pleasure to you." Schi=
ller.--" Der Kuenstler." " You might, if you chose, _imitate=
every thing that is good, and noble, and virtuous, and beautiful_; and you=
are, instead of that, reproducing every aspect of deformity that crosses y=
our path, until your brain is so stamped with images of defects, ugliness, =
and uncouthness, that your hand and head refuse their office, when I call u=
pon you to reproduce the beauties with which the world is graced." I d=
oubt if Joachim heard the latter part of his Mother' s speech. At the recur=
rence to the old sentence, a gleam of lightning seemed to shoot across his =
brain. Latent memories were aroused as keenly as if the events had but just=
occurred, and he sank at his Mother' s feet. When she ceased to speak, he =
arose. " Mother," said he, " I have been living in a cloud. =
I have been very wrong. Besides which, I have a secret to tell you. Nay, my=
Aunt may hear. It has been a secret, and then it has been forgotten; but n=
ow I remember all, and understand far more than I once did." Here Joac=
him recounted to his Mother the whole story of her words to him, and his ad=
venture with the Genie and the bottle; and then, very slowly, and interrupt=
ed by many tears of repentance, he repeated what the Genie had said about g=
iving him _the power_ of imitation, adding that the use he made of it must =
depend on himself and the great Ruler of the heart and conscience. There wa=
s a great fuss among the Cousins at the notion of Joachim having talked to =
a Genie; and, to tell you the truth, this was all they thought about, and s=
oon after took their leave. The heart of Joachim' s Mother was at rest, how=
ever: for though she knew how hard her son would find it to alter what had =
become a habit of life, she knew that he was a good and pious boy, and she =
saw that he was fully alive to his error. " Oh Mother," said he, =
during the course of that evening, " how plain I see it all now! The b=
oy that stutters is a model of obedience and tenderness; I ought to have dw=
elt upon and imitated that, and, oh! I thought only of his stuttering. The =
boy that walks so clumsily, as well as the great fellow that lisps, are suc=
h industrious lads, and so advanced in learning, that the master thinks bot=
h will be distinguished hereafter; and I, who--(oh, my poor mother, I must =
confess to you)--hated to labour at any thing, and have got the boys to do =
my lessons for me; --I, instead of imitating their industry, lost all my ti=
me in ridiculing their defects.--What shall--what shall I do!" The nex=
t morning poor Joachim said his prayers more humbly than he had ever before=
done in his life; and, kissing his mother, went to school. The first thing=
he did on arriving was to go up to the big boy, who had beaten him, and be=
g him to shake hands. The big boy was pleased, and a grim smile lightened u=
p his face. " But, old fellow," said he, laying his hand on Joach=
im' s shoulder, " take a friend' s advice. There is good in all of us,=
depend upon it. Look out for all that' s good, and let the bad points take=
care of themselves. _You_ won' t get any handsomer, by squinting like poor=
Joe; nor speak any pleasanter for lisping like me; nor walk any better for=
apeing hobbling. But the ugliest of us have some good about us. Look out f=
or _that_, my little lad; I do, or I should not be talking to you! I see th=
at you are honest and forgiving, though you _are_ a monkey! There now, I mu=
st go on with my lessons! You do yours!" Never was better advice given=
, and Joachim took it well, and bore it bravely; but, oh, how hard it was t=
o his mind, accustomed for so long to wander away and seek amusement at wro=
ng times, to settle down resolutely and laboriously to study. He made a str=
ong effort, however; and though he had often to recall his thoughts, he in =
a measure succeeded. After school-hours he begged the big boy to come and s=
it by him, and then he requested his old friends and companions to listen t=
o a story he had to tell them. They expected something funny, and many a br=
oad grin was seen; but poor Joachim' s eyes were yet red with weeping, and =
his gay voice was so subdued, the party soon became grave and wondering, an=
d then Joachim told them every thing. They were delighted to hear about the=
Genie, and were also pleased to find themselves safe from Joachim' s ridic=
ule. It could not be expected they should all understand the story, but the=
big boy did, and became Joachim' s greatest friend and adviser. That eveni=
ng our little friend, exhausted with the efforts and excitement of his almo=
st first day of repentance, strolled out in a somewhat pensive mood to his =
favourite haunt, the sea shore. A stormy sunset greeted his arrival on the =
beach, but the tide was ebbing, and he wandered on till he reached some cav=
erns among the cliffs. And there, as had often been his wont, he sat down t=
o gaze out upon the waste of waters safe and protected from harm. It is ver=
y probable that he fell asleep--but the point could never be clearly known,=
for he always said it was no sleep and no dream he had then, but that, whi=
lst sitting in the inmost recesses of the cave, he saw once more his old fr=
iend the Genie, who after reproaching him with the bad use he had made of h=
is precious gift, gave him a world of good advice and instruction. There is=
no doubt that after that time, Joachim was seen daily struggling against h=
is bad habits; and that by degrees he became able to exercise his mind in f=
ollowing after the good and beautiful instead of after the bad and ugly. It=
was a hard task to him for many a long day to fix his flighty thoughts dow=
n to the business in hand, and to dismiss from before his eyes the ridiculo=
us images that often presented themselves. But his Mother' s wishes, or the=
Genie' s advice, or something better still, prevailed. And you cannot thin=
k, of what wonderful use the Genie' s gift was to him then. Once turned in =
a right direction and towards worthy objects, he found it like a sort of fr=
iend at his right hand, helping him forward in some of the most interesting=
pursuits of life. Ah! all the energy he had once bestowed on imitating lis=
ps and stuttering, was now engaged in catching the sounds of foreign tongue=
s, and thus taking one step towards the citizenship of the world. And inste=
ad of wasting time in gazing at the singing master' s face, that he might a=
pe its unnatural distortions--it was now the sweet tones of skilful harmony=
to which he bent his attention, and which he strove, and not in vain, to r=
eproduce. The portfolio which he brought home to his Mother at the end of a=
nother half-year, was crowded with laborious and careful copies from the be=
st models of beauty and grace. And not with those only, for many a face cou=
ld be found on its pages in which the Mother recognized some of her son' s =
old companions. Portraits, not of the mere formation of mouths and noses, w=
hich in so many cases, viewed merely as forms, are defective and unattracti=
ve, but portraits of the same faces, upon which the character of the inward=
mind and heart was so stamped that it threw the mere shape of the features=
far into the background. Thus with the pursuit of his favourite art, Joach=
im combined " that most excellent gift of charity; " for it was n=
ow his pride and pleasure to make the charm of expression from " _the =
good points_" his old friend had talked about, triumph over any physic=
al defects. The very spirit and soul of the best sort of portrait painting.=
And here, my dear young readers, I would fain call your attention to the f=
act of how one right habit produces another. The more Joachim laboured over=
seizing the good expression of the faces he drew from, the more he was led=
to seek after and find out the good points themselves whence the expressio=
n arose; and thus at last it became a _Habit_ with him to try and discover =
every thing that was excellent and commendable in the characters of those h=
e met; a very different plan from that pursued by many of us, who in our in=
tercourse with each other, are but too apt to fasten with eagle-eye accurac=
y on failings and faults. Which is a very grave error, and a very misleadin=
g one, for if it does nothing else, it deprives us of all the good we shoul=
d get by a daily habit of contemplating what is worthy our regard and remem=
brance. And so strongly did Joachim' s mother feel this, and so earnestly d=
id she wish her son to understand that a power which seems bestowed for wor=
ldly ends, may be turned to spiritual advantage also, that when his birthda=
y came round she presented to him among other gifts, a little book, called =
" The Imitation of Jesus Christ." It was the work of an old fello=
w called Thomas a Kempis, and though more practical books of piety have sin=
ce been written, the idea contained in the title suggests a great lesson, a=
nd held up before Joachim' s eyes, Him whom one of our own divines has sinc=
e called " The Great Exemplar." This part of our little hero' s '=
Lesson of Life,' we can all take to ourselves, and go and do likewise. And=
so I hope his story may be profitable, though we have not all of us a larg=
e Genie-gift of Imitation as he had. With him the excess of this power took=
a very natural turn, for though he possessed through its aid, considerable=
facilities for music and the study of languages also, the course of events=
led him irresistibly to what is usually called " the fine arts."=
And if the old dream of the royal chariot and the twelve jet black horses =
was never realized to him, a higher happiness by far was his, when some yea=
rs after, he and his Mother stood in the council house of his native town; =
she looking up with affectionate pride while he showed her a portrait of th=
e good young King which had a few hours before been hung up upon its walls.=
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