There is no place in the modern conception of government for any regime which does not strive to better the condition of the people within its scope of power. In these times, we see with increasing clearness that there is but one worthy conception of kingliness, and that it is the kingliness of service. The emphasis of Jesus was upon the human being. He held all men in much the same esteem, for to Him a human being was inherently worthy of respect and honor. The human soul, however, was not made to perish. It is a thing of universal interests and eternal possibilities. It is life in its highest terms, and it was life with which Jesus was essentially concerned. It is the glad service which lifts the world a little farther in its long, hard climb. The human struggle will always be in the direction of whatever is considered great. We shall always struggle to become like that which we most admire. Therefore, it is important that we shall most admire the thing that is best. Where humanity is regnant and ascendent everything else is certain to be at its best. Speech Words slip back the shutters from the windows of the inner life. The reason for a great deal of unjust and unkind comment is to be found in the proneness of man to condemn his brother most fiercely for that fault which lies most deeply imbedded in his own life. [A helpful word] will echo where you little know, and it will speak for you when your lips of clay can speak no more. When mind reaches its limit it often abdicates in favor of temper. Argument exhausted, the stores of abuse are open. Speak kindly of the friend who is away from you, for unkind speech has yet to win its first victory for the speaker. All keen observers of social and spiritual influences know that the prophet is one of the most potent factors in the building of our destiny, both as a nation and as a race. Spiritual God, the church, and human hearts are all things our relationship to which should hush our souls. Let us not be victims of the idea that holiness excludes the sunshine. The cardinal sins are less dangerous because we are more afraid of them. Those who fail to obtain [life’s intellectual and spiritual necessities] pay the penalty by living cramped lives and usually dying with their deeper longings unsatisfied. One cannot long conceal a lack of mind and soul with clothes and paint.---The more flash and parade the ignorant indulge in, the cheaper they look. The deeper hunger is satisfied only with a world made beautiful with the things that were whispered only into the more sacred chambers of the heart of man—the beautiful and the unnecessary things. The only happiness which has lasting quality comes from within. No one can be happy long who is not happy in soul. The person who treasures an unhappy spirit sins not only against himself and his fellow men, but he also sins against the Almighty.