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We Hear In These Days A Great Deal Respecting Rights--the Rights Of Private Judgment, The Rights Of Labor, The Rights Of Property, And The Rights Of Man. Rights Are Grand Things, Divine Things In This World Of God's; But The Way In Which We Expound These Rights, Alas! Seems To Me To Be The Very Incarnation Of Selfishness. I Can See Nothing Very Noble In A Man Who Is Forever Going About Calling For His Own Rights. Alas! Alas! For The Man Who Feels Nothing More Grand In This Wondrous, Divine World Than His Own Rights.

It Is Not The Situation Which Makes The Man, But The Man Who Makes The Situation.

Two Thousand Years Ago There Was One Here On This Earth Who Lived The Grandest Life That Ever Has Been Lived Yet - A Life That Every Thinking Man, With Deeper Or Shallower Meaning, Has Agreed To Call Divine.

Let A Man Begin In Earnest With "i Ought," And He Will End, By God's Grace, If He Persevere, With "i Will." Let Him Force Himself To Abound In All Small Offices Of Kindliness, Attention, Affectionateness, And All These For God's Sake. By And By He Will Feel Them Become The Habit Of His Soul.

Every Unfulfilled Aspiration Of Humanity In The Past; All Partial Representation Of Perfect Character; All Sacrifices, Nay, Even Those Of Idolatry, Point To The Fulfillment Of What Want, The Answer To Every Longing--the Type Of Perfect Humanity, The Lord Jesus Christ.