Excerpt from Lamps of the Temple: Choice Examples of the Eloquence of the Modern Pulpit At the same time learn from the nativity of Jesus that your life 15 exceptional. You are never to make it the test of humanity. Never forget that the best of men was born utterly without it. Never think less of any man because he IS destitute of it. 'nealth is to be regarded, not so much as something lacking in him, but as something added to you. And if it is exceptional it must have some exceptional duty fastened to it. It must be that you hold it, in part at least, to be used in trust for other people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.