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without a material return by those whose 

 hearts are in it. Much time cannot be 

 given it by those who are engaged in busi 

 ness, because in business the rules require 

 the rigour of the game, and inattention to 

 these rules very surely must be followed 

 by its loss. It is therefore peculiarly the 

 work for those from whom the burden of 

 care for their personal future has been 

 removed. 



The most obvious side of the work to 

 which I allude is the work which concerns 

 the public welfare, and this has many 

 branches ; the next is that which concerns 

 those individuals who have in a certain 

 sense been forgotten. In each direction the 

 field is so broad as to leave room for the im 

 agination to expand indefinitely, and I 

 might leave it to each to follow out for him 

 self the thread of thought suggested, in the 

 direction most congenial to him. Perhaps I 

 may feel moved to indicate some special 

 lines of activity and helpfulness which 

 come into my view. 15ut does it not ap 

 pear to you that the world might soon be 

 a very different world from the one we 

 know, if an earnest effort should be made 

 in the direction which I have indicated ? 

 And remember that 1 am not suggesting 



