nce to money-return.

In the initiation of all great and good causes there is a time of pure
enthusiasm, when life and thought and labor are given freely, and hardly
a care enters the mind as to the prizes of honor or wealth which are
struggled for so keenly in the world. No reformer or friend of humanity,
worthy of the name, has not some time in his life felt this high
enthusiasm. If it has been his duty to struggle with such an evil as
Slavery, the wrongs of the slave have been burned into his soul until he
has felt them more even than if they were his own, and no reward of
riches or fame that life could offer him would be half so sweet as the
consciousness that he had broken these fetters of injustice.

If he has been inspired by Christ with a love of humanity, there have
been times when the evils that afflict it clouded his daily happiness;
when the thought of the tears shed that no one could wipe away; of the
nameless wrongs suffered; of the ignorance which imbruted the young, and
the sins that stained the conscience; of the loneliness, privation, and
pain of vast masses of human beings; of the necessary degradation of
great multitudes;--when the picture of all these, and other wounds and
woes of mankind, rose like a dark cloud between him and the light, and
even the face of God was obscured.

At such times it has seemed sweeter to bring smiles back to sad faces,
and to raise up the neglected and forgotten, than to win the highest
prize of earth; and the thought of HIM who hath ennobled man, and whose
life was especially given for the poor and outcast, made all labors and
sacrifices seem as nothing compared with the Joy of following in His
footsteps.

At such rare moments the ordinary prizes of life are forgotten or not
valued. The man is inspired with "the enthusiasm of humanity." He maps
out a city with his plans and aspirations for the removal of the various
evils which he sees. His life flows out for those who can never reward
him, and who hardly know of his labors.

But, in process of time, the first fervor of this ardent enthusiasm must
cool away. The worker himself is forced to think of his own interests
and those of his family. His plan, whatever it may be,--for removing the
evils which have pained him, demands practical means,--men, money, and
"machinery." Hence arises the great subject of _"Organization."_ The
strong under-running current which carries his enterprise along is still
the old faith or e