But the desire to spread liberty and truer thought among men, to war against bigotry and superstition, to make the world freer and better than I found it--all this impelled me with a force that would not be denied.

I seemed to hear the voice of Truth ringing over the battlefield: "Who will go?
Who will speak for me ?" And I sprang forward with passionate enthusiasm, with resolute cry: "Here am I, send me!" Nor have I ever regretted for one hour that resolution, come to in solitude, carried out amid the surging life of men, to devote to that sacred cause every power of brain and tongue that I possessed.

Very solemn to me is the responsibility of the public teacher, standing forth in Press and on platform to partly mould the thought of his time, swaying thousands of readers and hearers year after year.

No weighter responsibility can any take, no more sacred charge.

The written and the spoken word start forces none may measure, set working brain after brain, influence numbers unknown to the forthgiver of the word, work for good or for evil all down the stream of time.