SOME men are content if they do not fall behind their fellows; others, if they do not fall behind themselves. But there are some who are not content unless they are surpassing both others and themselves, and becoming ever better men, superior to conventional standards and to their own best attainments. Edward Bowen, of Harrow, was such a man. It was said of him: "The desire to make good better, and better best, was with him an instinct." "He found his happiness in habitual self-sacrifice. At all times he was insistent upon self-sacrifice even in the smallest things. 'Never take the corner seat in a railway carriage, when other people are in the compartment.'" "He did not wish to be known or remembered by men; but he wished to serve and to be loved by many friends. Above all, thought he, to serve; since to serve was the duty—to be loved, only the reward." "I don't know how it is, sir," a boy said about him, "but if Mr. Bowen teaches a lesson, he makes you work twice as hard as other masters, but you like it twice as much, and you learn far more." It is the man who is becoming better himself who sacrifices himself. The stationary man preserves himself. And it is the man who sacrifices himself who can persuade others to sacrifice their old selves and to become better men.—The Christian Herald.