ics of cotton and wool, her presses, looms,
sewing-machines, her pictures, her libraries. In giving of her wealth
to found these destitute schools England will save it a hundred-fold
and find new markets among 300,000,000 people.

Sacrifice is also the secret of influence. Long ago Cicero noted that
tales of heroes and eloquence and self-sacrifice cast a charm and spell
upon the people. When men sacrifice ease, wealth, rank, life itself,
the delight of the beholders knows no bounds. If we call the roll of
the sons of greatness and influence we shall see that they are also the
sons of self-sacrifice. The Grecian hero who lost his life that he
might save his influence is typical of all the great leaders. Phocion
was a patriot and martyr whose single error in judgment brought down a
catastrophe upon his beloved Athens. When the fierce mob surrounded
his house and prepared to beat down his doors, friends offered Phocion
escape and shelter, but the hero went calmly forth to meet his death.
When the day of execution arrived the cup of poison was handed to the
other leaders first. The jailer was careful to see to it that before
he reached Phocion he had only a few drops of hemlock left in his cup,
but the hero drew out his purse and bade a youth run swiftly to buy
more poison, saying to the onlookers: "Athens makes her patriots pay,
even for dying." Losing his life, Phocion, found immortal influence.

The history of Holland's greatness is the history of one who saved
liberty by losing his own life. William the Silent was a prince in
station and in wealth, yet for Holland's sake made himself a beggar and
an outlaw. He feared God, indeed, but not the batteries of Alva and
Philip. His career reads like one who with naked fists captured a
blazing cannon. Falling at last by the dagger of a hired assassin, he
exclaimed: "I commit my poor people to God and myself to God's great
captain, Christ." When he died little children cried in the streets.
He lost his life, said his biographer, but saved his fame. And what
shall we more say of Italy's hero, who wore his fiery fagots like a
crown of gold; of Germany's hero, who lost his priestly rites, but
gained the hearts of all mankind; of England's hero, whose very ashes
were cast by enemies upon the River Severn, as if to float his
influence out o'er all the world, of India's hero, William Carey, the
English shoemaker, who founded for India an educational system now
reaching