Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1918 — WORDS OF WISE MEN [ARTICLE]

WORDS OF WISE MEN

The love principle is stronger than the force principle.—Dr. A. A. Hodge. True personal liberty can never interfere with the duties, rights and interests of others. There are a lot of people who never put oft till tomorrow what they can get anybody else to do today. Modern thought is so vague, and its expression so inadequate, that terseness, clearness and accuracy of thought and expression will always command attention. Music helps soldiers to march. It is possible to travel through life to the tune of praise. The habit of counting out mercies is as easy to form as the habit of grumbling. The duty of man, as man, is thought. Pity and love may aid and cheer him, but, as sovereign worker in this world, his duty is governance, guidance—in a word, thought.—Peter Bayne. Let us realize that the real aristocracy of this wofld is an aristocracy of service, and let us do what we can by word and by example to hasten the days when an aristocracy that scorns to serve will be universally despised. Let us recognize that only those who labor, in the sense of performing some useful service, are possessed of real worth.