THE FIRST DUTY

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 18, 6 May 1909, Page 717

THE FIRST DUTY

Among the many things that help to establish character and to win the kind of success that has lasting value, is obedience to the orders of those in command.

When Gustavus, the king of Sweden, was a young lad who was much "beloved by his father, he was given a rigil training as a soldier. Expecting to he a commander of soldiers himself some day, it was necessary he should know their duties. One day his father asked him;