28. But we, upon whose efforts is staked the
salvation of a soul, a being blessed and immortal, and destined for
undying chastisement or praise, for its vice or virtue,—what a
struggle ought ours to be, and how great skill do we require to treat,
or get men treated properly, and to change their life, and give up the
clay to the spirit. For men and women, young and old, rich and poor, the sanguine and
despondent, the sick and whole, rulers and ruled, the wise and
ignorant, the cowardly and courageous, the wrathful and meek, the
successful and failing, do not require the same instruction and
encouragement.