Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1881 — The World’s Need. [ARTICLE]

The World’s Need.

What the world needs more than anything else—more than the gift of money, rules, speeches, theories, organizations —is the revival of personal agency; the touoh of a hand, the glanoe of an eye. the tone of a voice, the sympathy of warm, loving hearts cliargea with all healing influences, to sow the de-ert wilderness thickly with the good seed of the kingdom. We wish the sower to go forth alone, awl by individual contact with the evil of the world, ±o remedy it by the influence of personal faith and living love. _ Mm a smoker wonders what the letters “T. D.” on a clay pipe mean, and some one has found that they stand for Timothy Dexter, “My Lord Timothy,” the eccentric Newberryport (Mass.) man who endowed a clay pipe factory, wrote a book with a few pages of punctuation marks in the back, and insisted oh viewing a mock burial of himself, at which he whipped his wife because she did not weep enough,