the psychology of the human spirit. Nine-tenths of the unhappiness in this world is rooted and grounded in selfishness. Discontented husbands and wives would soon find the winter of their discontent passing into the joys of June, if they would but practice thinking of the other's happiness. Rich development of spiritual power comes through this same unselfish goal. When General Booth of the Salvation Army was in his old age, and could not attend a great meeting in a distant land, of an organization whose inspiration he was, he cabled a message of greeting. It was a single word, "Others," but it contained the whole gospel of unselfishness which enabled him to girdle the world in service. The land of service which Rotary has marked out, is a happy land, because it touches the heart. Heart power is the power that rules the world. Intellect may clear the road, conscience may point the way, but the dynamo of the heart must be touched before the human engine moves to the accomplishment of a great end. Henry Drummond was not speaking an idle word when he said, "Love is the greatest thing in the world." George W. Cable, in one of his Creole stories, makes the ecstatic character exclaim, over the humming bird, “He is but one drop, but he is all passion." Service touches the heart because it is the heart in action. The land of service which Rotary has marked out, is a happy land because it is right. Men spend their lives trying to denature conscience, but there is no joy quite equal to the good content that comes from an approving conscience, and conscience always approves the deed of service that was rendered in another's behalf. One has well expressed I believe THE CREED OF A ROTARIAN That those who live in and for the joy of serving are far richer than those who are served. 'God bless our mothers. I believe That those who serve and sacrifice without the hope of profit or reward are the most commendable servants of mankind and civilization. I believe God bless the boys in the army and navy. That a token of human kindness in the pathway of the deserving will merit a greater reward than flowers strewn upon a grave. I believe God bless the nurses and keep them from harm. That the future holds its punishment or reward for the pessimist or optimist. I believe God pierce the heart of the “pro-German” with the arrow of understanding. That America will solve the greatest problem of history, and "Make the world safe for Democracy" for now and eternity. God bless our country and those in authority and give to them power and wisdom. But service is something more than sentiment. It rests on a deep-lying principle. To do an impulsive deed of service on haphazard occasions will never suffice for achieving entire satisfaction, or for reaching the land of happiness. Service to come into its own must be the ideal of life. It must be exempli fied in daily practice, and not merely by impulsive emotionalism. Service is the expression of the doctrine of loyalty which Professor Royce of Harvard, one of California's sons, has expressed as the fundamental principle of life which every person and every society needs. He upholds that there is no ultimate satisfaction of life without devotion to the principle of loyalty. Every individual must have some group, something outside of himself, to which he is loyal, if he would make the most of himself. Loyalty to the family, loyalty to the social group, loyalty to the nation, loyalty to a great cause, is the way whereby the individual shall truly arise. Service is the real epitome of what Jesus Christ and the most spiritual of Israel's prophets stood for. This is graphically demonstrated in the incident from which the phrase of the evening's text was taken. Jesus was but a little older than Alexander, who at the age of thirty, was weeping because there were not greater worlds to conquer. The conquest of Jesus was not the conquest of the world of success, but of the world of service. His intimate friends did not realize this. Like the politicians of today, they were anxious to have political preferment. Two of the most ambitious asked that they might have the chief positions when He came into power. One wanted to be Secretary of State, the other Secretary of the Treasury. But He, turning to them, said that the chief place should be given to the one who was the servant of all. "Even as the son of man came not to be ministered unto but to minister." The power of this program was subtly set forth in that play, of a few years ago entitled, "The Servant in the House," wherein the Bishop of Benares, unheralded, unannounced, and therefore unrecognized, assumed the position of servant to the great discomfiture of the pompous Bishop of London. The principle of service Jesus made the one criterion of worth in the final day of judgment," In as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, the King shall say in that day, 'Ye have done it unto me.' Jesus gave His life in service. He went about doing good. The night before He died, He took a towel and girded himself and washed the disciples' feet. The principle of service, which Jesus insisted on, through the last 1,900 years has contributed most of the progress which has come to Europe and America. At least this is the conclusion at which the historian Lecky in his "History of European Morals comes. He states that this Christian principle did away with infanticide, banished the bloody gladiatorial shows from Rome and exalted woman from a plaything to a companion. It did much to alleviate the horrors of war, until the back eddy of the terror of today. He even goes so far as to maintain that there was no such thing as true philanthropy in the world until this Christian principle of service warmed the hearts of men. Service is the master passion actuating America in this war. The line of cleavage between the Allies and Germany, divides service to self as personalized in the Hohenzollerns, and service to others as personalized in the Allies who seek to defend the freedom of small nations as well as great. Never has a more splendid sight been seen than that of a nation which draws its sword and gives its sons, not for glory but for service; not for aggrandizement, but for the sake of the weak; not for might but for right. "Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends." From her earliest days, America has been dediIcated to the cause of service. Having been conceived with the idea that all men are created free and equal, she early became a haven of refuge for the oppressed of all nations. While yet in her infancy, she sent Commodore Decatur to purge the Mediterranean from the slavery of Barbary pirates. In her early youth she gave to the world the Monroe Doctrine, wherein she took upon herself the service of protecting the American continents from old world despotism. A little later she rendered to the Orient the lasting service of opening Japan to the influence of the Western world. Almost at the price of her own life, she freed herself from the incubus of human slavery, "that government of the people, for the people, and by the people might not perish from off the earth.” Through the past decades while she has been growing into greater maturity, America has served |