Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1918 — JUDGED BY OUR WORKS. [ARTICLE]

JUDGED BY OUR WORKS.

Chicago Tribune — What a crucible this time is—a crucible in which we are all being tested! Extraordinary results come from this refining process and not one of us escapes. What we have of courage, self-sacrifice, true nobility becomes separated from that complicated mixture known as personality. In like manner all the hypocrisy, incompetency, idleness, laziness, and self-indulgence, which in ordinary times can be hidden from general observation, float, hn unattractive scrum, on the surface, visible to all.

For the rest of our mortal lives each one of us will be judged by our works at this time of supreme trial. Can you who fail to answer the call for help which comes from every Red Cross bureau and other war relief’associations, or who ignore the appeal of the food conservation board, or who go off on pleasure trips when money is needed for home and foreigfi philanthropies — can you face the long, long years of the silent, unforgetting judgment of your peers? We Americans haven t yet graduated from the kindergarten of giving ourselves, our time, our strength, our resources to our coun-

happening every day! There came to the French war shop in East Washington street the other day a woman a simple, hardworking mortal earning barely enough to keep body and soul together. But she hud an offering of money made and saved by making ice during the cold moiths last winter. She froze water in various receptacles and not only eliminated her own ice bill, but sold the ice thus made to her neighbors, carefully saving every cent for this gift to be divided betwi en the French and the Red Cross. Since the war began, three and a half years ago, she has had ’ nt one thought: That it was as much our war as that of the French and English that was being waged over there. She had withstood much petty but disagreeable persecution from her forewoman, a person of ahen sympathies. But she was not to he deterred either in her expression of opinion or in her unremitting accumulation of small sums to complete her donation. All Carnegie’s millions given away do aot bulk so large as this widow’s mite. v