Excerpt from The Youth's Companion, Vol. 2: A Juvenile Monthly Magazine Published for the Benefit of the Puget Sound Catholic Indian Missions; June, 1882 He gave God credit foi everything for the success which crowned his efforts, as well as for the good qualities which he noticed iii his comrades. God ap peared to him as the beginning and the end of all gifts; and he not only believed this as others did, but his conduct corresponded with his belief. He manifested his supreme dislike for all kindsof deference, and for the marks of esteem which his teachers and class-mates showed him. Did any of his professors congratulate him 011 his success in presence of the class, it only tended to embarrass Eugene, and one day he complained of this to one of his comrade I must frankly avow, said he, that 1 do not like praise. Eugene never recoiled from humiliations; he accepted them With joy, and even asked them of God and man. One day a teacher reproved him with a View of humbling him. Eugene, not knowing how he had deserved such reproof, did not however seek to exculpate himself in the presence of his school fellows; but later, having learned the motive which had actuated the professor, he thanked him for the humiliation he had made him undergo as for a bless ing; and from this out, his esteem increased towards him, who had thus given him an opportunitv of practicing humility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.