May 26

The man never lived, save He who perfected our humanity, who ever did the very best he could. You dishonor your life, you not simply shut your eyes to certain facts, you not simply say an infinitely absurd and foolish thing, but you dishonor your human life if you say that you have done in any day of your life, or in all the days of

your life put together, the very best that you could, or been the very best man that you could be. You! what are you? Again I say, The child of God; and this which you have been, what is it? Look over it, see how selfish it has been, see how material it has been, how it has lived in the depths when it might have lived on the heights; see how it has lived in the little, narrow range of selfishness, when it might have been as broad as all humanity—nay, when it might have been as the God of humanity.