. Everybody is in this world to govern and everybody to obey.
There are no benefactors and no beneficiaries in distinct classes.
Every man is at once both benefactor and beneficiary. Every good deed
you do you ought to thank your fellowman for giving you an opportunity
to do; and they ought to be thankful to you for doing it."--_Phillips
Brooks_.

"Pity is love and something more; love at its utmost."--_T. T. Munger,
"Freedom of Faith._"

"The great idea that the Bible is the history of mankind's deliverance
from all tyranny, outward as well as inward, of the Jews, as the one
free constitutional people among a world of slaves and tyrants, of
their ruin, as the righteous fruit of a voluntary return to despotism;
of the New Testament, as the good news that freedom, brotherhood,
equality, once confided only to Judea and to Greece, and dimly seen
even there, was henceforth to be the right of all mankind, the law of
all society--who was there to tell me that? Who is there now to go
forth and tell it to the millions who have suffered and doubted and
despaired like me, and turn the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom
of the just, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come? Again
I ask--who will go forth and preach that gospel and save his native
land?"--_Charles Kingsley, "Alton Locke._"

CHAPTER III.

THE INVESTMENT OF TALENT AND ITS RETURN.

In all ages man has been stimulated to sowing by the certainty of
reaping. Tomorrow's sheaves and shoutings support to-day's tearful
sowing. Certainty of victory wins battles before they are fought.
Armed with confidence patriots have beaten down stone castles with
naked fists. Uncertainty makes the heart sick, takes nerve out of arm
and tension out of thought. The mere rumor of war along the
border-lines of nations destroys enterprise and industry. Men will not
plow if warhorses are to trample down the ripe grain. Men will not
build if the enemy are to warm hands over blazing rafters. Why should
the husbandman plant vines if others are to wrest away his fruit? The
individual and the race need the stimulus of hope and a rational basis
of security that nothing shall cut the connection between the causes
sown and the effects to be reaped. Therefore, the divine word: "Send
forth thy gift and talent, and nature and providence shall invest it
securely and give the talent back with interest and increase."

What a promise for civilization was that of C