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GAS RATES That reduction of 10 cents a thousand cubic feet in the price of gas, welcome as it is to the consumer who has been accustomed to higher and not lower charges, loses some of its surprise in the light of the financial report of the Citizens’ Gas Company for the past year. True, it is admitted by the public service commission, there would have been no reduction in all probability had not The Times printed some facts early in January concerning the earnings of this company. The cut in rates, made under circumstances which have all the appearance of agreement between the commission and the company, would probably have been postponed for at least another year had not The Times given to the public some information concerning the earnings of that company. The gas company stands on a different basis than the other utilities of this city and its right to exist, which means its charter and its franchise ’ argain with the city, is based upon the theory that at some time this company will be owned by the people of this city, as a city. Public spirited citizens who participated in its formation and its financing, held out to the public the hope that at some time, when they had received their money back with a generous rate of interest, it would be turned over to public ownership, to be operated or leased by the city and that thereafter, the city would have the advantage of a fuel at dost price or at least the profits from operation would go back to the people'themselves. At that time, the capitalization of the company was very small in comparasin with the huge amounts which promoters in these days place upon their equities in utilities. The report for the past two years shows that the people have been taxed for gas and have' paid for the by-products of the company at a rate which permits not only the wiping out of most of the dividends which were not paid through a series of war years but to pile up huge srpluses and to make very extensive improvements and developments. The report, also, is evidence of fine management on the part of the employed officers and executives of the company and for that the people should be grateful, if the original purpose is finally carried out and they receive, the benefit of this service. The commission announced with great unction that it had made an exhaustive study of the gas company, a statement which is somewhat suspicious when it is known that it did not have the financial report for the past year until it had handed out the reduction of 10 ceuts a thousand. There is still lacking any public information, as to the facts on which it arrived at the conclusion that this 10-cent cut is either sufficient or perhaps desirable. Possibly the commission may have facts which the people ought not to khow. That seems to be a popular theory these days, that the people are not to be trusted. But now that the report is on file, is it beyond reason to ask that the commission or some public body suggest that the time has come to put Into effect the drigiiial agreement and that steps be taken to wipq out tyie common stock certificates as rapidly as possible and hasten the time when the company shall be turned over to the city? Is it unreasonable to suggest that here is a phase of the gas situation which demands even more exhaustive and careful study than that given by the commissioner who has held his place on the public service body for only a few weeks? How soon or when could the city really own the plant’as the public spirited citizens who founded it intended that it should be owned? THE REAL QUESTION Public interest in the impeachment of Judge Clarence W. Dearth of Muncie is not likely to be allayed or satisfied by a legal battle in courts in which the legal papers are prepared in one office and that the office of the attorney for the judge. What the people would like to know and will demand to know is first, whether Judge Dearth has been guilty as charged by the House of Representatives with interfering with the constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press and of providing very peculiar juries for his court, and second, as to whether the people have any power to protect themselves from such acts if they be proved. The charges against the Muncie judge are made with almost unanimous indorsement of the State speaking through the lower house of the General Assembly. There is nothing partisan or political in the question, for those impeachment charges received the votes of members of both parties. They were made after a hearing at which evidence was taken. Judge Dearth has as yet had no opportunity to present a denial or a defense and this, it would seem, Vie and his friends should welcome when the Senate meets next week as a trial court, j Upon that phase of the matter it would seem that all State officials and all judges should have more than an academic interest. For if it should be discovered that the impeachment proceeding is not possible under the Constitution, some high official, either the Governor or the Attorney General, should be in prohipt position to show the remedy if they discover at this trial that the charges are true. The guaranteed freedom of the press is the very bulwark of all liberties. It is the priceless heritage of ages of contest with power that surrendered slowly and grudgingly this right of the people to know the truth and to have the truth. This judge stands charged by the representatives of the people of Indiana with using his judicial powers to set aside that Constitution) and these representatives have charged that such an act amounts to corruption and high crime. That is the issue which the people desire to have settled, once and forever. They desire, first, to know whether the charges be true. If it be untrue, they have no desire to hbund from office a qian accused unjustly. But if it be true, if-the judiciary in any branch did set aside this part of the bill of rights, then the citizens of Indiana have a right to know whether they any recourse and any remedy. M Neither the friends $f Judge Dearth nor those demanding his impeachment should be sat-

isfied with any procedure which blocks a full and complete and open hearing of the facts. The time has come to discover whether freedom of speech and of the press are real rights or just phrases from a forgotten past. STAINLESS COAL A good word for the Hoosier State is being spread over the country. Whether it is the sort of advertising that pays financial dividends would be hard to tell. That depends on the degree to which people allow their feelings to affect their pocketbooks. It depends, in fact, on whether people will huy coal that comes to them stained with the blood of the men who mine it, as readily as they will buy stainless coal. The word concerning Indiana is that the State Legislature has passed and the Governor has signed a law requiring rock-dusting in all coal mines. The United States Bureau of Mines has declared for years that sprinkling rock dust in tlie underground workings of coal mines reduces the danger of coal dust explosions to a minimum. And the voluntary organizations which have been working in all the coal States to obtain this legislation are now broadcasting the news of Indiana's action throughout the country. Indiana is one of five bituminous States —out of the twenty-five—which now have effective legislation of this kind. The others are Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Utah and Wyoming. Individual mines In some other States have adopted this safety precaution, without waiting to be compelled. An explosion about a year ago in the largest coal mine in Illinois was held comparatively harmless by rock dust In the workings; it was estimated that more than a thousand lives that otherwise would have been lost, were thus saved. Action of the Indiana Legislature followed an explosion that cost thirty-seven lives. The year before a similar accident killed fifty-one miners. During the year 1926 explosions in sixteen coal mines took 349 lives. Minor explosions killed many more. The fifty-two largest explosions in the past five years cost the lives of 1,574 miners. With the advice of the best engineers to encourage them, 200 coal companies in seventeen States have installed the rock dust safeguard in the rast four years. But the number not yet protected is still greater. Legislation by all States Is needed. CHOW AND CHINA Suppose you were a mill hand. Suppose you were paid from $4 to $6 a month for your work. Suppose a brutal foreman made you give him part of that for the privilege of being kept on the pay roll. Suppose it cost you $8 a month to live, and support a wife, or $10.50 a month to keep your family of five on a scale on a par with cattle. Suppose, in order to obtain even the minimum necessities required to keep soul and body together, your Wife and perhaps the oldest of your small children had to go to work in the mills, too. You’d be inclined to think something was wrong, wouffin’t you? Well, that is the state of. affairs in Shanghai. That is the pay a ricksha coolie receives, or a dockhad nor a cotton mill worker, according to the Shanghai municipal commission. And its figures are home out by Col. L’Estrange Malone, an Investigator for the independent labor party of Great Britain. In short the unskiUed Chinese worker finds it utterly impossible to make a living for himself and family under the new industrial order. “The women and children are driven into industry (where even their cheaper labor is welcome),’’ says Colonel Malone, “because the earnings of the father are insufficient to buy the barest necessities of life, even of life according to Chinese standards.” There isn’t room to go into housing conditions as described by Colonel Malone. But they are indescribably shocking. Yet, every time there is a strike In China we are flooded with propaganda intended to make us believe it is due to Bolshevism. For a century foreigners have been exploiting a weak and backward China. But, thanks to American education, very largely, anew school of Chinese has suddenly came into existence. These westernized, modernized, scandalized Chinese are now telling the world in no uncertain tones that this exploitation must cease. Here, in a nutshell, is the story of “what’s the matter witli China.” It is not the whole story, of course, by a jugful, but it contains the germ and genesis of the great unrest. WARD’S OPPORTUNITY During that period of delay'to permit Senator Arthur Robinson and Senator James Watson to agree on whether or not District Attorney Ward has resigned, that Official has his chance to do one more public service. The people have not forgotten that a New York Congressman discovered that SBO,OOO worth of whisky had disappeared from the local Federal building and investigation proved the charge. The people remember that three Negro janitors were sent to jail for a few months upon confessions that they took It. And they also remember that the charge was openly made by a newspaper very friendly to Senator Watson that only the most gullible would believe that there were not “higher up3” who had not been punished. While waiting to decide on his resignation Mr. Ward has the magnificent opportunity to show the people that he Is not among the gullible. Famous maternal lines; “Why, Willie! How did you ever get your knuckles so dirty?” * . • We are wondering If the temporary White House lias a nice breakfast room. It begins to look as if Mr. Coolidge is going to have to buy some buckwheats for Mr. Borah. Well, now that General Smedley Butler has been sent to Shanghai, it will be almost safe for the boys to resume their usual entertainments.

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Tracy Senator King Will Test Diplomacy Sustained by Bayonets.

By M. E. Tracy What will the president of Haiti do when Senator King comes to town? Will he call on the American marines to enforce his order of exclusion, and if so, what will they do? Senator King's decision to visit Haiti in spite of the announced refusal to admit him, reveals the issue in its true light. We shall soon know whether a government made and sustained by our bayonets has the hardihood to bar one of our Senators, and if it has, what attitude our State Department will take. • The president of Haiti could not keep himself in, much less keep any one else out, but for the armed forces with which the United States has surrounded him. Up to Kellogg Considering how vigorously Secretary Kellogg has bestirred himself in behalf of lumber companies, oil companies and mining companies throughout Latin-America one would suppose that he might find it compatible with his duty to drop President Borno of Haiti a polite hint in behalf of Senator King. This is one occasion, however, when Secretary 'Kellogg appears to oe abjectly respectful of a foreign government’s sovereignty. He takes the view that President Borno is acting clearly within his rights when he excludes an American citizen, even though that citizen happens to be a Senator, and even though the cause of the complaint consists of remarks which that citizen made as a Senator. It is a matter of record that Senator King belittled President Borno. It is also a matter of record that he did this in order to make his belittlement of the Coolidge administration more forceful. Perhaps Secretary Kellogg Is not entirely displeased at the idea of Borno punishing the senator for such effrontery. Meanwhile Senator Borah la wondering whether he would face an order of exclusion if he undertook to visit Nicaragua. Having criticised the Coolidge Administration for the course it is pursuing toward a Latin-American government, he is in the same boat with Senator King. There is no reason to assume that he would be treated differently. There is no reason to assume that any of the critics of the Coolidge Administration would be treated differently or that Secretary Kellogg l would show greater concern. Apparently our foreign policy has , developed a Btate of affairs, whether intentionally or not, whereby critics of the Coolidge Administration can be punished by grateful governments. Satisfying Slap Most people have a pet desire. Nine t.nies out of ten it is for the one thing they have the least hope of getting. More often than not, it is the product of circumstance. It was Catherine Bary’a dream to slap Alexander Kerensky. Last Sunday she had the satisfaction of realizing It, but not until she had spent her last five-dollar hill. She bought a bouquet as a means of getting on the stage without Interference, and when she was near enough, slapped the former premier of Russia with her gloves, five times across the mouth. She says she is satisfied, which is not true of all people after their pet desires have been fulfilled. She says that it was a luxury and that It brought all the enjoyment she could expect. Fellow Sufferer If yon had gone through what Catherine Bary lias, you might have done the same thing. No girl could see her father lose a great fortune, her brothers and sisters reduced to penury and her fiance killed without experiencing strange and bitter emotions. It was but natural that she should make the man, who was head of Russian affairs at the time of her trouble, the target for her Ire. Yet, it was illogical. Alexander Kerensky was no less the creature of circumstance than Catherine Bary, as his present condition proves. His fall has been quite as far and more spectacular. When she slapped him, she merely slapped a fellow sufferer. Ford's Troubles Henry Ford is certainly one of the two richest men, if not the very richest in this country. He might be enjoying his wealth as quietly and contentedly as his rival, John D., had he not aspired to be a publisher and more particularly, had he’ hot employed his privileges as a publisher, to assail the Jews. In assailing the Jews. Mr. Ford dragged in the name of Aaron Sapiro, and thereby hangs one of the greatest libel suits ever set for trial. Mr. Sapiro has not only sued Mr. Ford for a million, but is trying to maneuver things so as to get him on the witness stand. If appearances are to be believed, Mr. Ford is more worried Over tho possibility of having to take the witness stand than over the million. Has (lie war risk insurance taken out during the war any loan value? No. Only converted Government insurance has a loan value. What is the meaning of the phrase “Adios hasta sabado”? It is Spanish for “good-by, until Saturday” or the “Sabbath.” ’ Our class would like some Information as to the duties of all the members of the President’s cabinet? Where can we obtain it? You will find it In any good encyclopedia under the head of United States Government. A bulletin giving the information is issued by our Washington Bureau and can be ob- ' tained for 6 cents In stamps or coin.

A Tough Case to Start His Career On !

Age Has Increased the Beauty of Otis Skinner’s Acting in ‘Honor of Family’ 11 - ■' By Waller D. Hickman ■ 1

What a really beautiful place the theater can be when the right sort of menu is served. Last night when Otis Skinner was honestly forced by an audience that occupied nearly every space of English's to tell in his own words how much he loved the old role of Col. Philippe Bridau in

“The Honor of the Family,” I realized that this was the first time in many experiences of “covering'' Mr. Skinner that the star made a curtain talk. 1 There were many reasons for the talk last night. Friends and alumnae of Earl ham College had taken over the theater for the evening. The

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very excellence of the play, the star and his associates were sufficient reasons for the star giving a talk of sincere appredation, lie said that he felt more like a guest of honor than % host with Earlham so well represented. Mr. Skinner said that if Earlham ever gave him a degree it must be “Y. H. 3.’’ Which means, in the terms pf Booth Tarkington. ‘‘Your Humble Servant.” And in a box last night was Booth Tarkington, who has written several successes for Mr. Skinner. All in all, last night was one of those nights which goes down in one's mental shrine as an event to he cherished among the good things of life. Here was a play of ancient .vintage, so to speak, hut with as much sparkle, youth, energy, action and beauty as it had when it was first conceived. It does not. seem old, more like anew stage baby. Although the pattern is old. "The Honor of the Family” never creaks nor groans. It Is that type of the theater which Is always young. W e love human nature, and, as Mr. Skinner says, “Balzac was a man who knew and understood human nature.” And this’ play Is one of human nature. You see a woman lifted from the gutter and placed in a home of security by a rich old fool by the name Jean Jacques Rouget. He was a tottering old boy. He cried and fretted like a baby when his dear scheming Flora wrapped him about her finger. And then into this silly old household walks Col. Philippe Bridau. who drives Flora and her companion of evil out of the house. But Colohel Bridau was forced to kill the evil companion of Flora in a duel. He tells you in the second act that he will have to kill Max Gilet. . Here is a magnificent family quarrel and a live one at that. The honor of the family had to be saved and Philippe did just that in four acts. In the years to come I am sure that I will include the performance of Otis Skinner as Colonel Bridau as one of the ten most pleasant experiences in the theater. I am quite sure that nothing will ever cause me to remove Mr. Skinner as Philippe Bridau from my mental shrine. And so, it is the genuine thing, the honest and beautiful experience which again attracts capacity audiences to the theater. lam sure that A. F. Miller last night when he saw the big audience and noticed the advance sale, recognized the fact that great acting in a good play is now getting its reward in this city. The stars of the other days are fast becoming memories. Only a memory remains for many of the great. So that the memory of Otis Skinner in his best theater may become a mempry to you in the years to come, I urge you to see him in “The Honor of the Family” this time. There really are two other splendid characterizations, the Flora Brazier of Jessie Royce Landis and the tottering relic of Rouget as played by Robert Harrison. Miss Landis mounts to tyer great moments of dramatic worth in the last act. This is her act and not even ptis Skinner desires to take it away' from her, because he shares the applause and the honor with her. She is magnificent as the fighting human cat for

money and for a certain brand of love. Here is big theater on the part of Miss Landis. Mr. Harrison is always in character as the silly old man, who loves a young girl. In fact he is magnificent In his weakness of the character. The cast is what you would expect Mr. Skinner to have associated with him —just right. The production the same. Here is one of the real gems Os the season. Be sure and see it sparkle. At English’s tonight, Wednesday matinee and night. ARTISTS OF DANCE ON VIEW AT KEITH’S It is a pleasure to record that real dancing and beautifully satisfying song pictures have not vanished from the stage. This is more than apparent after seeing Renee Robert, Jay Velie, Violet Bache and Luise Blackburne in “Terpsichore and Troubadour.” Miss

Robert is a dancer, who is classical in spirit, but enough of a wise show person to offer a varied program. Here is oi.e song and dance offering that you will recall and really remember when the vaudeville season is over at Keith’s. The correct and efficient use of lights aids in no uncertain sense in making this act one of genuine beauty. Nothing is overdone.

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Drapes and transparent curtains with certain lights playing upon them to bring out certain effects greets tlie eye at the opening of the act. Here you have Jay Velie singing “An Argentine Fantasy” and suddenly this song becomes a song picture with Violet Bache. Luise Blackburne and Renee Robert. There is vastness and dignity to this number. You get just a glimpse of some wonderful toe work on the part of Miss Robert. Then we have “Vienna Maid.” a little nifty done by Miss Blackburne with a feather fan and Air. Velie. Then Miss Bache and her “Spanish Girl” number. The stage then becomes a rose garden in “A Southern Rose Garden" and you see Miss Robert doing some fine stepping to a Southern folk song which suddenly becomes syncopated. A dash of the modern spirit of the dance is felt in “Modern Rhythm,” danced by Miss Blackburne. The final number is “An Indiana Dawn” with the four artists in Indian attire. Here is a dance picture which is really haunting and beautiful in its savage grace. As beautiful a dance offering as I care to see. Here is the dancing treat of the season. Ora is f\ woman who takes her bar and trapeze as seriously as a great pianist takes his piano. She does some reckless stunts with the finest case. Good act. Edy East and Ralph Dumke open with sVeed. East is at the piano. Their “Rainy Day Blues” is not so •rapid as some of their other tunes. Their elephant song. “Louise,”- is rapid travesty. Jack Norworth and Dorothy Adelphi, dressed in bedroom attire, stage a domestic quarrel In bed and under the bed in "The Nagger.” Norworth closes by singing “Mother's Gone

Stage Verdict ENGLISH'S —Otis Skinner in ‘ The Honor of the Family,” Is one of the choice gems of the season. Not to be missed by those who want only the best that the stage has to offer. KEITH’S —Renee Robert, Jay Velie and others in the most intelligent and beautiful dance of* ! sering of the season. LYRlC—Sissle and Blake again prove their worth as real entertainers of melody. Easily the big feature of this bill. Her® are two real artists. PALACE—The Swor Brothers with an original game of poker and a good comedy sense offer a blackface acUthat is clever and humorous, v.

Dancing.” I missed that definite Narworth way of putting over a song, probably ills attire was too intimate. Ann Suter has a strange, violent and eccentric way of making faces, throwing her body into odd shapes while she sings her energetic songs. Her method is violent, but she certainly gets her audience. Bob Hall is back making up verse and songs on the stage. Because of the rush of reviewing yesterday. I left Keith's before the last act went on. As this is vaudeville centennial week, a movie showing the origin and growth of vaudeville is presented on the screen. To me it was 1 mighty interesting. At Keith's all week. A STUDY IN HOW TO PI T OVER V DRAMATIC SONG Some yejtrs ago Slssle and Blake in “Shuffle Along,” a colored revue, introduced Slssle singing his Impresion of the World War. At that time I recorded my lm- ! presslon as being that here was a i dramatic song mood which could be [ further developed, or something to ] that effect. Sissle has developed that Idea now into a dramatic song called "My j Dream of the Big Farade.” With Blake at the piano and with the assistance of the orchestra at the Lyric, Sissle demonstrate* just how a dramatic song niay be put over with such effect that it stops the show. Os course, the melody Is of the type which makes one become interested, the lyrics actually form a moving song picture, and that, coupled \\ith Sissle's dramatic way of putting over this number, makes it one of the high lights of their act. Sissle again is singing Ids “baby shoe” number. Blake, of course, is the same wizard on the piano that he has ever been. As far as I am concerned, Stssle and Blake are tho whole works at the Lyric this week. “Seminary Scandals” has the use of- seven girls and a young chap. One woman, an eccentric comedienne. tries to be another Charlotte Greenwood, but falls. As the act has to have an ending, a large woman. supposed to be the head of a I girls boarding seminary, sings a song for no reason whatsoever. Rerniane and Shelley go in first for what may be called a travesty upon a trapeze act. Some good fun. Then the act becomes musically eccentric. The Mangean, Mosoe Troupe present a series of rapid tumbling stunts. Jeanne Houston and company go in for quiet eccentric dancing. Green and Parker have a blackface offering in “At the Depot.” Harry Howard trios very hard to be different. When I was present, he tried to get a youngster to help him in the act. The youngster would not help. Harry remarked that overytime he saw a baby be “wanted to become a mother.” Other acts and movies on tlie bill. At the Lyric all week. SWOR BROTHERS SCORE ON THE PALACE BILL An .original game of poker furnishes an opening for the Swor Brothers, at the Palace the first half, that could hardly be improved upon as a sure and certain laugh getter for these two men. The curtain rises on a pair of blackface tramps. A deep and serious poker game is in progress. Not a word is spoken but the seriousness with which they place their bets on the table is enough to make anyone smile. After they have both run out of money the first one calls tho band of the other. The second claims the pot with one queen, and the big kick for those who know their cards is that the loser lets him take It, complaining that his luck waa bad, all he had was two fours. Following the poker game this pair proceed with a line of stories and cracks that arc really funny. They know how to make you laugh and do it without any effort. The Calm aftd Gale Company, two men and three women, offer a medley of songs and dances. One or two of their numbers were about all that we cared for. These were done by two women, one in a dance doing a lot of splits and the other number a song offering by the woman (Turn to Page ?)

MARCH 15,1927

Work A Reputation Asa Dependable Doubler Is Valuable,

By .Milton C. Work The pointer for today is: THE INFORMATORY DOUBLE OF A DEPENDABLE PARTNER snot LD BE INSWERED WITH SEEMINGLY BOLD BIDS BY THE PARTNER OF THE DOUBLER: One of the greatest advantages of conservatism in doubling, Is that it Justifies bids by tho partner' which, if made facing a nondependablo doubler, would be apt to result disastrously. For example, when a No Trump Ims been doubled soundly, tho partner frequently will obtain wonderful results by answering with a Business Pass or with two No Trumps: whereas, if in doubt about tlie doubler's dependability, lie would be obliged to answer with two of a Minor suit and would consequently fail to obtain tlie maximum results from the combined hands. There are many other opportunities for the partner of a dependable doubler, one of which will be discussed tomorrow; I and I give today an example which ! will illustrate the point to be considered tomorrow. The example Is: South (Dealer) lins bid one No. Trump, West has doubled, North liasw passed, and East holds. ’ Sp: Bx-x-x lit. x x Dl: x-x x Cl: A QI 10-9. But before taking up tomorrow's ! topic, in order again to emphasize how essential it is that the double' convey an announcement of real strength, lot me say tlmt even the rather severe high 5-cat'd requirement that 1 have previously referred to as a minimum for doubling, is sufficient to justify a double only when tlip doubler is in the advantageous position "over” (on tbo left of) thebid to be doubled. When the doubls is made in the reverse position (i. e., when the bid is over the doubler) the doubler should have greater strength. South (Dealer) one No Trump, West pass, North pass, East double: would be an example of the disadvantageous position. When the partner of the doubler lias passed an oportunity to bid initially (for example: South pass, West one No Trump, North double), extra douobling strength is required. Also it requires more strength to double suit-bids of two or three, than it does to double suitbids of one. (Copyright. John F hill* Cos.)

: feUoufeEp of JpXU. foyDailij Leiden PpitotionlL Prepared by Rev. Charles Emerson Burton, D.D., for Commission on Evangelism of Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Copyright lttl

Topic for (lie Week “CHRIST IS A SPIRIT" Tuesday “It Makes Ills Mfe Significant” SCRIPTURE: Read—Philippian* 2:1-11. “He that hath seen mo hath seen the Father” (J. H:3>- “The first man Adam became a living soul. The Inst Adam became n life-giving spirit'’ (I Cor. 15:45). But we a11... beholding as a mirror the glory of the Lord. re transformed Into the same image from glory” (11 Cor. 3;'8). See —John 5:13. 15:24; Hebrews 1:1-4. MEDITATION; It is good that there was once so fine a character. The conception that this goodness is at the heart of the universe means everything. Suppose instead there were selfleshness and cruelty at the center of things; suppose even that there were indifference there. That would make indifference, selfishness or cruelty logical standard* for our lives. “I have never looked upon the fruitless human soul. Never till I found Thee. But Thou hast, answered to the pattern in my heart.” HYMN; Lord of all being, thorned afar, Thy glory flames from sun and star; Center pnd soul of ev’ry sphere, Yet to each loving heart how near! Lord of all life, below, above, Whose light is truth, whose warmth is love; Before Thy ever-blazing throne We ask no luster of our own. Grant us Thy truth to make us free. And kindling hearts that burn for Thee, Till all Thy living altar* claim One holy light, one heavenly flame. -—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1848. PRAYER: Thanks for our Meat* and joys. Pray so to God'* will; honest doubters: achool*. Collect —Our Father in heaven, whose patience knows no bounds, we thank Thee for the oncoming of Thy kingdom In the world, and for the means of grace in our live*. We bless Thee for the Son of Man; serving In Galilee, loving in Judea, triumphing in Gethsemane, atoning on Calvary and rising from the grave. We rejoice In our redemption through Him and Jn the hope of Immortality brought to light by Him. Yet In our weakness we have set our hearts on things on the earth. We have thought sucres* better! than righteousness and esse desirable above service. In Thy patience brood over our dull spirits till love awakens In u*. We commit ourselves to the Son of Man In holy living and loving service, for Hl* name's sake. Amen. Which are the six larrest dtfoa it) t&e world? London, New York. Berlin, Paris. Chicago, Vienna.