On a roll were these words: "While God gives me life each day shall a man be--as springs of water in a desert place." This beautiful story interprets for us the ministry of the higher manhood, as the great heart becomes the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
This law of human helpfulness asks each man to carry himself so as to bless and not blight men, to make and not mar them.

Besides the great ends of attaining character here and immortality hereafter, we are bound to so administer our talents as to make right living easy and smooth for others.

Happy is he whose soul automatically oils all the machinery of the home, the market and the street.

And this ambition to be universally helpful must not be a transient and occasional one--here and there an hour's friendship, a passing hint of sympathy, a transient gleam of kindness.

Heart helpfulness is to enter into the fundamental conceptions of our living.