April 21

Self culture and self-sacrifice, both present themselves as true and pressing duties of a human existence. No man has any right to contemplate the life before him, no man has any right to be living at any moment of his life, unless he knows himself to be doing all that he can to develop his soul and make it shine with its peculiar lustre in the firmament of existence. And no man has a right to be living at any moment unless he is also casting himself away and entering into the complete and devoted service of his fellow men. Self-culture and self-sacrifice,—these two have been the great inspiring forces of existence in all ages, in every land.