Duty of Man

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The duty of every man is to ask himself two questions: “What is my place?” and, “Am I in it?”. There are people who from lack of thought or because of unsettling circumstances, drift about uncertainly, anchoring nowhere, bearing no cargoes, and guarding nothing. It is pathetic to meet individuals of middle age who never yet have found their niche. But, once in a situation of opportunity, there comes the urgent demand, Am I measuring up to it? No one is negligible; and even one cog, if broken, will mar the running of the social machine. Nothing is unimportant in the economy of God. The Lord has a place for us, and, if we have the high aim of a holy enterprise, it will prove to be no narrow one. Let us get the right spirit, and we shall have all the “sphere” we want.

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