not be dried up by too much discipline.

Organization must not swallow up the soul. Routine may be carried so far
as to make the aiding of misery the mere dry working of a machine.

The thought must ever be kept in mind that each human being, however
low, who is assisted, is a "power of endless life," with capacities and
possibilities which cannot be measured or limited. And that one whose
nature CHRIST has shared and for whom He lived and died, cannot be
despised or treated as an animal or a machine.

If the directors of a benevolent institution or enterprise can arouse
these great motives in their agents,--spiritual enthusiasm with a
reasonable gratification of the love of honor and a hope of fair
compensation,--they will undoubtedly create a body of workers capable of
producing a profound impression on the evils they seek to remove.

It is always a misfortune for an agent of a charity if he be too
constantly with the objects of his benevolent labors. He either becomes
too much accustomed to their misfortunes, and falls into a spirit of
routine with them; or, if of tender sympathies, the spring of his mind
is bent by such a constant burden of misery, and he loses the best
qualities for his work--elasticity and hope. Every efficient worker in
the field of benevolence should have time and place for solitude, and
for other pursuits or amusements.

DUTIES OF TRUSTEES.

A board of trustees for an important charity should represent, so far as
is practicable, the different classes and professions of society. There
is danger in a board being too wealthy or distinguished, as well as too
humble. First of all, men are needed who have a deep moral interest in
the work, and who will take a practical part in it. Then they must be
men of such high character and integrity that the community will feel no
anxiety at committing to them--"trust funds." As few "figure-heads"
should be taken in as possible--that is, persons of eminent names, for
the mere purpose of making an impression on the public. Men of wealth
are needed for a thousand emergencies; men of moderate means, also, who
can appreciate practical difficulties peculiar to this class; men of
brains, to guide and suggest, and of action, to impel. There should be
lawyers in such a board, for many cases of legal difficulty which arise;
and, if possible, physicians, as charities have so much to do with
sanitary questions. Two classes only had better n