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Show 152 ancl with a. few more such thoughts we stop, and hope that there arc men and wotncn elsewhere in thnt wido expanse, though they hn.vc never helped to keep us in anything but barrels of flour. ·v-.;rc all know that the value of the different parts of the earth to us depends ou the good our souls have got out of them. To how many of you arc a few square yards of green turf in some quiet cemetery moTe precious, more fruitful for the soul, than the richest prairie of tho 'Vest, waving its thousand acres of unbroken grain ; for from that little spot of ground your angel ascended. And so all over tho globe, the precioUl! places are tho places of great thoughts and great lives. 'fake from the map of the earth Egypt and Greece and J udca and England, aml how barren instantly is tho history of man ; all the fertility is gone; our brothers have failed to keep us. And yet all these scenes of glory, side by side, would be a mere speck upon the globe, and tho one dreary island of New Hol· AM I MY ll ltOTU.t:ll'S Klml'l<:R? 153 land, with its kangaroos d . than them ali. an Its &'Wages, is larger ~rho moral of all is th's. 'f . ' J ' I you Wtsh to be om brother s keeper you must k y . d bl eep your own life hi•h nn no e ' -keel> yourse lf from sin and folly. o "He who feeds men servcth few lie serves all who dares be tru: ... You cannot tell tho result of your acti.O n. You cannot tell who is lookino" at you. But you can tell. thhta t if you do right yo ur . fl . Ill ucnce will have its WClg somehow, and you ill b petual ood w c a source of per-g In all around you ; though be absorbed in your work or . you may th' · m your play and Inking nothing about it W ' than the most in . . . e never bear of more . significant fraction of tl evil we effect. lO good or Yo. u say, I am noth'm g; I am so small, it mn.k no difference whether I d • cs brethren. 8 . o good or harm to my sa upposo tho drops of the ocean were to y so, or tho sands of the desert. i'ell me which |