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bered on account of some special service that they rendered. 

 The service that any man can render is the measure of his suc- 

 cess. It matters not whether you be a leader or a follower; it 

 makes no difference whether or not the world looks upon you as 

 great, if you perform the duties that you have assumed to per- 

 form and do your level best. For such service, I believe, the 

 final reward is great. If you fulfill that duty that you have 

 assumed men may not call you great — that matters not— but 

 after a little while the accounts will be cast up and you will be 

 looked upon according to the service you rendered. We some- 

 times in making this illustration refer to the stoker who puts the 

 coal in the furnace that drives the great wheels that sends the 

 great ship across the mighty deep, bearing the captain of the 

 ship and the cargo of human life across the sea. If that man 

 who is feeding the furnace is doing his level best every day, per- 

 forming the duties that he has assumed, and the captain of the 

 ship is doing his level best every day, their reward will be great. 

 The trackwalker walking along the railroad to see that every 

 spike is in place, every tie sound and every rail without defect, 

 the integrity with which he performs that service renders safe 

 the human life that passes over the rails. The railway presi- 

 dent surrounds himself with men of ability, men of integrity, 

 who perform their duties the very best they know. In other 

 words, all these men are doing their level best every day, because 

 on their efforts and on their work depends the measure of the 

 safety of the human life that passes over the road. I don't 

 know what you may think about it, but I believe when the 

 stoker at the furnace and the captain of the ship, and the track- 

 walker, and the railway president have passed over The Great 

 Divide and are standing side by side to be weighed in the balance 

 of God's Eternal Justice the beams will swing equal. 



