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knows ! The ability to serve his fellow-men unconscious- 

 ly, and therefore more potently and more beautifully 

 than ever will be told. These teachers of yours have 

 that gift. You know it; they do not. You have felt it 

 many a time and so share it ; you shall feel it yet again. 

 You may not describe it ; you may not seek it ; it is yours ; 

 it is the bloom of the fruit; it is the iridescence of the 

 plume ; it is the luminous brilliance of the wave ; it is the 

 blaze of the opal; the silent, unspoken, all-potent influ- 

 ence of each noble human soul ! 



It is said that Robert Moffatt, the pioneer Scotch 

 teacher in South Africa, was impressed in early man- 

 hood with the idea that, could he only tell his story, all 

 Africa would heed. In his old age, it is said that he 

 thought of his life as a failure. But in both cases he was 

 much mistaken. It is true that Africa did not wholly 

 listen ; but, on the other hand, it is also true that South 

 Africa to-day is English, and in the line of all future 

 social progress. 



"In the glory of youth the young man sped 



Forth from his father's door; 

 'They will heed,' he cried, 'to the spoken word 

 For the great world rolls before.' 



"In the weakness of age an old man crept 



Back to his father's door; 

 'I have uttered my word and none has heard, 

 And the great world rolls as before.' " 



No: don't believe it! Life is forever more than a 

 spoken word ! Moffatt lives, and his work abides, though 

 he realized never, as he thought, the expectation of his 



