Every human being has a mission to perform. Every man has a part to act in the world's great drama-one of most unspeakable importance. But how few are there who come fully up to its standard and endeavor by Divine assistance to fulfill it. Man was created for a noble purpose, endowed with an immortal mind, and is capable of performing good work. Consider how great may be the influence of a single individual, either for good or evil. If we have been influential in reforming one, a being made in the image of God, but sadly misled by the contaminating influence of vice, we have performed a good work.

There are various ways in which good may be accomplished, but when a good resolution is formed the work is too often begun with a lack of confidence and perseverance, and impatient to accomplish the undertaking, we despair at the first difficulty. This should not be, but with more faith, the more distant the day of reward, the harder we should labor, and not let our arms become palsied because we do not meet with immediate and large results of our labors; but in time or eternity we shall receive the reward.

Much good may be done with the pen, and how much good has been done in this way, by which the influence of many still live while they have long since gone to their final resting place. But we would not have you vainly ambitious to render your name immortal, thinking to make a speck in the world by figuring in papers, or assume the importance of a fly that imagined itself turning the wheel upon which it was only turned round. But whatever you do let it be done to the glory of God, and remember that "He that coverteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death and hide a multitude of sins."