CHAPTER FIVE

	To live each day as if I were to meet my maker at sundown.
	To be absolutely honest in all things with all people, especially myself.
	To be unceasing in my search for truth. To be so straightforward, so simply truthful, that my slightest word will carry weight.
	To strive to be absolutely unselfish in thought and action, for in the universal scheme of things selfishness has no place.
	To be unswervingly loyal to high principle. To adhere to the right, even if it means the loss of friends.
	To remember always that, as between right and wrong, there can be no compromise, but that as between my desires and those of others, compromise is a fine thing.
	To try to see good in everyone no matter how unprepossessing.
	To remember that all people everywhere are brothers and sisters and that irrespective of color, race, or creed, they deserve to be treated as such.
	To remember that race "superiority" is largely an accident of birth and geography with no real basis of fact.
	To aim at being able to say, with truth, I like all people.
	To be humble, compassionate, kind, understanding, generous, earnest, forgiving, pure in heart, judging no one, and hungering for righteousness.
	To give myself to the limit of my strength and ability to the service of others.
	To shun all forms of pettiness, gossip, thoughts of revenge, and boastfulness.
	To look for opportunities to do favors for those who do not like me.
	To speak only good of a person or to speak not at all.
	To keep the right perspective in life by realizing that all material things are of value only as they build lasting spiritual values. Faith, hope, and love are all that are lasting.
	To spend some time each day in strengthening my spiritual muscles by probing my soul in search of its unsuspected capacities, its reservoirs of strength and inspiration, and in listening for God's message.
	To have absolute faith in the goodness and justice of God.
	To have the spiritual certainty that for the faithful follower of God everything is eternally all right.
	This is my code, and the time to live it is now.

* adapted from "My Code As A Christian" by W A. Rolland and contributed by Dr. Edward G. Schott.