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tence that I have quoted once before : "In this life 

 the man who wins to any goal worth winning almost 

 always comes to that goal with a burden bound on 

 his shoulders." The man who does best in this world, 

 the woman who does best, almost inevitably does 

 it because he or she carries some burden. Life is 

 so constituted that the man or the woman who has 

 not some responsibility is thereby deprived of the 

 deepest happiness that can come to mankind, be- 

 cause each and every one of us, if he or she is fit to 

 live in the world must be conscious that responsi- 

 bility always rests on him or on her the responsi- 

 bility of duty toward those dependent upon us; the 

 responsibility of duty toward our families, toward 

 our friends, toward our fellow-citizens ; the respon- 

 sibility of duty to wife and child, to the state, to the 

 church. Not only can no man shirk some or all of 

 those responsibilities, but no man worth his salt will 

 wish to shirk them. On the contrary, he will wel- 

 come thrice over the fortune that puts them upon 

 him. 



In closing, I want to call your attention to some- 

 thing that is especially my business for the time 

 being, and that is measurably your business all the 

 time, or else you are unfit to be citizens of this 

 Republic. In the seventh hymn which we sung, in 

 the last line, you all joined in singing "God save the 

 State!" Do you intend merely to sing that, or to 

 try to do it? If you intend merely to sing it, your 

 part in doing it will be but small. The State will 

 be saved, if the Lord puts it into the heart of the 



