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A. H. CHAMPLIN. 
The volition of man is not unlike the molecular actions of 
what we classify as the ethereal and the mineral, the vegeta¬ 
ble and the animal kingdoms. Man was not planted as a 
separate individual on this globe ; nor did he come here by 
chance or any reputed miracle. He is a product of the in¬ 
volvements and evolvements and expansions of limitations by 
cosmic forces, energized into higher individualisms, of which,, 
so far as we know, except by inference and conjecture, he is 
a consummation in keenness of sense and freedom of intellect¬ 
uality. All births and all deaths, with their joys and their 
sorrows, are assurances and certainties in themselves of im¬ 
mortality. Through these selfsame births and deaths he has 
emerged from lower to higher forms of life—from barbar¬ 
isms to civilizations. 
He can never comprehend his relations to the universe, 
but the enlarging of his vision will always beget larger ca¬ 
pacity and responsibility and sweeter impulses toward the 
acknowledgment of the unity of the race, and brotherhood 
in man. 
The golden rule as we have it, whatever personality de¬ 
duced it, or whether we apply it to man or beast, is the formu¬ 
lation of humanity. Every endeavor, however small, to carry 
out this logical conclusion, always means further emancipa¬ 
tion, larger freedom, and greater happiness to mankind. 
The callings of man as a social being are as numer¬ 
ous as his necessities. But of all the attributes of which 
he is possessed, inherent or acquired, none have been regarded 
more significant than his power, real or imaginary, to succor 
the weak and to heal the sick. The acknowledgment of this 
power runs through the annals of time like a golden thread. 
It is the lovliest virtue in all the traditions which have blos¬ 
somed and ripened into the older mythologies and later theolo¬ 
gies. We find its prototypes in times prior to the fabled. 
Chiron or ^Esculapions, or the humble Nazarine—the healer 
of the leper. In art, in poetry, in literature or in real life, a 
picture representing mighty deeds of prowess may dazzle our 
senses for the time being, but it does not linger in our con¬ 
sciousness like the memory of a delightful dream. We recall 
