THE NOBLE "IT BEHOOVETH ME!"

rings in every intelligent mind. "I have not done that which I ought to

have done; I therefore am disturbed and in unrest." Where does this

thought come from? Why do I sit in judgment on myself? The atheist says

it is selfishness. A peculiar selfishness is that voice of duty which

cries to those whom we rightly call good to go forth to the bedside of

the distressed, is it not? At the corner of Lake and Paulina streets, in

Chicago, a man, his wife, and his child were nearly burned to death. The

child died, and perhaps they all died. They were taken to the hospital.

The next day a thrifty landlord tumbled their goods down-stairs to the

sidewalk.

The Golden Censer Or, the duties of to-day, the hopes of the future · 第 481 / 522 题