those of the man who offers it.
I appeal to you to assist, in every possible way, in the creation of
a public sentiment which will ostracise the business man who
purchases legislation with the profits derived from privileges
already secured, or who advances corruption money in anticipation of
the profits which governmental favors promise.

In the counting room as well as in the editor's library and in the
lawyer's office one hears the heart-searching question: "What shall
it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own
soul?"--and happiness, honor and usefulness all hang upon the answer.

I would not be forgiven if I failed to apply my theme to the work of the
instructor. The purpose of education is not merely to develop the mind;
it is to prepare men and women for society's work and for citizenship.
The ideals of the teacher, therefore, are of the first importance. The
pupil is apt to be as much influenced by what his teacher is as by
what the teacher says or does. The measure of a school can not be
gathered from an inspection of the examination papers; the conception of
life which the graduate carries away must be counted in estimating the
benefits conferred. The pecuniary rewards of the teacher are usually
small when compared with the rewards of business. This may be due in
part to our failure to properly appreciate the work which the teacher
does, but it may be partially accounted for by the fact that the teacher
derives from his work a satisfaction greater than that obtained from
most other employments.

The teacher comes in contact with the life of the student, and,
as our greatest joy is derived from the consciousness of having
benefited others, the teacher rightly counts as a part of his
compensation the continuing pleasure to be found in the knowledge
that he is projecting his influence through future generations.
The heart plays as large a part as the head in the teacher's work,
because the heart is an important factor in every life and in the
shaping of the destiny of the race. I fear the plutocracy of wealth;
I respect the aristocracy of learning; but I thank God for the
democracy of the heart. It is upon the heart-level that we meet; it
is by the characteristics of the heart that we best know and best
remember each other. Astronomers tell us the distance of each star
from the earth, but no mathematician can calculate the influence
which a noble teacher may exert upon posterity. And yet