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There is no test of character more severe or difficult to bear than the suspense of waiting. The man who can act eases his soul under the greatest calamities; but he who is compelled to wait, unless he be of hardy fibre, eats his heart out in a futile despair. If the troops were compelled to halt under the relentless guns of masked batteries, they would be caught up in the stir of charge. It will lead to the demoralisation and scatter of the troop, which would result in great loss. Now, the characteristic trial of youth is this experience of waiting at a moment when the whole nature craves expression and the satisfaction of action. The greater the volume of energy in the man who has yet to find his vocation and place, the more trying the ordeal. There are moments in the life of the youth when it seems impossible to realise any of its dreams and the splendour of the dreams filled the young soul with despair. The clearer the consciousness of the possession of the power, the stronger the fear that he could not find ways to contribute to the society. The reality of this crisis in spiritual experience the adjustment between the personality and the physical, | 
