are men made every day, not only in Bethlehem or in
Stratford, not alone on the banks of the Nile or the Arno; but on the
Columbia, or the Sacramento, or the San Francisquito, it may be, as
well. All over the earth, in this image, are the sane, and the sound,
and the true. And when and where their lives are spent arises
generations of others like them, men in the true order. Not alone men
in the "image of God," but "gods in the likeness of men."

It is to the training of the genuine man that the universities of the
world are devoted. They call for the higher sacrifice, the sacrifice
of those who have powers not needed in the common struggle of life, and
who have, therefore, something over and beyond this struggle to give to
their fellows. Large or small, whatever the gift may be, the world
needs it all, and to every good gift the world will respond a
thousand-fold. Strength begets strength, and wisdom leads to wisdom.
"There is always room for the man of force, and he makes room for
many." It is the strong, wise, and good of the past who have made our
lives possible. It is the great human men, the "men in the natural
order," that have made it possible for "the plain, common men," that
make up civilization, to live, rather than merely to vegetate.

We hear those among us sometimes who complain of the shortness of life,
the smallness of truth, the limited stage on which man is forced to
act. But the men who thus complain are not men who have filled this
little stage with their action. The man who has learned to serve the
Lord never complains that his Master does not give him enough to do.
The man who helps his fellow-men does not stand about with idle hands
to find men worthy of his assistance. He who leads a worthy life never
vexes himself with the question as to whether life is worth living.

We know that all our powers are products of the needs and duties of our
ancestors. Wisdom too great to be translated into action is an
absurdity. For wisdom is only knowing what it is best to do next.
Virtue is only doing it. Virtue and happiness have never been far
apart from each other. To know and to do is the essence of the highest
service. Those the world has a right to honor are those who found
enough in the world to do. The fields are always white to their
harvest.

Alexander the Great had conquered his neighbors in Greece and Asia
Minor, the only world he knew. Then he sighed for more worlds to
conquer