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ROM this time on, he regarded his life and its powers as a trust to be enlarged, controlled and administered diligently, savingly, and solely for others. From his retirement for communion with his own soul and with his Maker, he came out into the open of a new life and surrendered himself wholly to the duty before him as he saw it. He knew the mighty energy of money, and he would gather and rightly direct it. But it went hard with him that day, to let go the dream of leisure and hope of travel and study, to go back again to a desk and an office, to the labor he had laid aside as he thought forever, when he had no personal wants to serve. No one but himself knew that in the Court of Conscience, he was passing upon himself a life sentence.

He had a definite purpose now, and he set himself to daily work to carry it out in the most practical way. Unfaltering in his 65