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is perfection. "I came not to be served, but to serve." So He 

 announced His life-philosophy. "Went about doing good." So 

 history stereotyped that life itself. A manger here, and a cross 

 there ; and between these two, and binding them together, a span 

 of service this was the incarnation of the Divine principle in 

 human history; this was the Christ-life giving itself for the life 

 of the world. 



And here again was the life which we reverence, the life of a 

 disciple. Never was more unselfish service rendered by man than 

 was given by Professor HENRY. Through long years, and under 

 temptations which would have been too strong for the ordinary 

 man, he served his Institution on a half-salary, and the Government, 

 saving it tens of thousands, on no salary at all. And the lack 

 here, he made up in no other way. Paying for not a half of it, the 

 Smithsonian and the Government had all his time, all his service. 

 He used not his high position as a watch-tower for the discovery of 

 personal opportunities. He grew not rich on a small salary. And 

 having given all of himself to the service of his country in the 

 cause of science, he also, as freely and as unselfishly, gave all the 

 results of his labor. His was the greater part, the nobler work, to 

 discover principles. He lifted up this force of nature only to say 

 to the inventor : " Use this while I look for another." And then 

 he went on searching. 



So he lived ; so he labored. He served others ; himself he did 

 not serve. With AGASSIZ, he could have said : " I have not time 

 to make money." Neither had he. God does not give time to 

 such men for such a purpose. The vision of the true life and the 

 endless glory breaking upon such minds forbids the debasement. 

 The eyes which are to look into the universe for the generations 

 must not have the death-weight of the dollar upon their lids. 



But once more. Professor HENRY was a Christian, in that he 

 held as his pronounced creed the truth contained in the Scriptures 



