He has more power.
His sphere of vision is enlarged.

He sees more clearly the defects in the condition of others that might be remedied.

He can lend a more active helping hand to raise them.

He has done his duty by himself, and can with more authority urge upon others the necessity of doing the like duty to themselves.

How can a man be a social elevator, who is himself walking in the mire of self-indulgence?
How can he teach sobriety or cleanliness, if he be himself drunken or foul?
"Physician, heal thyself," is the answer of his neighbours.
The sum and substance of our remarks is this: In all the individual reforms or improvements that we desire, we must begin with ourselves.