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No Rubber Stamps Citizens will watch carefully the meeting of leaders of the legislature lor the purpose of outlining a plan of taxation which could be turned into law at a special session. The policy of gathering the demands of various groups and then attempting to find a solution for present conditions is fine. But any effort to turn •members of the legislature into rubber stamps to merely pass on something that the Governor and the legislative leaders may wish is quite another matter. In theory, at least, the members of the legislature were elected to make the laws. If the Governor Is convinced that the farmers and the workers have a good reason for demanding laws at a special session, he should call that session without demanding guarantees of good conduct. The law making responsibility is not his. Presumably if these leaders decide on a program that is not pleasing to the Governor and his friends, there will be no session. That rather makes the Governor the lawmaker of the state and a petty dictator. The farmers have a definite idea of what they want. The organized workers want the same thing. The owner of city real estate favors the plan. It was killed in the last legislature by the lobby of northern industrialists and the bankers. A law that leaves the farmer and the worker still bearing the tax burden will not meet the demands of the situation. Members of the legislature should move slowly before signing blank checks against their consciences and the judgments. A Great Editor “One of the great men of Europe,” was the way Woodrow Wilson spoke of C. P. Scott. King George said that his achievement “surely must be unique in the history of journalism.” He was more powerful than politicians, making and unmaking governments. He molded the mind of Britain—what he said one year, British public opinion was apt to say the next decade. Now that he is dead at 85, one realizes with a shock that many probably never even heard of this great man. And yet that is natural enough. Indeed, that in a sense is the greatest tribute to him. For the world has heard much of the Manchester Guardian and for fifty years C. P. Scott was the Manchester Guardian. He made it the most feared, the most respected, and the most beloved newspaper in the world. There are two kinds of editors, those who blow their own horns, and those who sink their identity in the public service of their papers. Instead of making people talk about himself, C. P. Scott made people think about the issues to which he was dedicated. There are editors like that. But there are more because of his example. There are newspapers that follow the crowd, and those that lead. When Scott as a young man took over the Manchester Guardian, it pandered to the popular prejudices. He transformed it. Never in fifty years did he attempt to make circulation for his paper or profit for his cause by an appeal that was tawdry, cheap, vulgar or vicious. Never did he stoop to patrioteering. And never did he feed poisoned news to the people because they thought they liked it. Often he sacrificed the profits of his paper, often he sacrificed the regard of the public and of old friends, rather than sacrifice the truth. He was the fearless progressive. The record of the Manchester Guardian editorial page is the record of British progress during the last half century. With a courage equaled by wisdom, Scott’s newspaper fought for Irish home rule at a time when that leadership meant ostracism; fought for woman suffrage when that meant ridicule; fought against the Boer war when that meant the taunt of treason; fought for a just peace in the World war when that meant a charge of aiding the enemy; fought for the conscientious objectors when that meant defying the mass-madness of his country and the world; fought for fair play for the general strikers when most of the press, persons and politicians called for blood. Pefhaps the most encouraging thing that can be said about the state of the world in this new year of 1932 is that it can appreciate a once unpopular leader like C. P. Scott, that it can put its faith in a progressive newspaper like the Manchester Guardian. The tributes that are pouring into Manchester from the mighty and the lowly of many lands are evidence that the thinking world has a sense of values and a high goal. A Courageous Pronouncement In the rush of holiday excitement, readers may have missed what potentially is one of the most important and far-reaching declarations in the intellectual history of western civilization. His Holiness, Pius XI, spoke at the annual meeting of the Pontifical Academy of Science. Here he made an amazingly broad-minded statement relative to the harmony between science and religion. Referring to the opening of the Vatican City radio station, the Pope said: “This was anew demonstration of the harmony between science and religion that each fresh conquest of science even more luminously confirms, so that one may say that those who speak of the incompatibility of science and religion either make science say that which it never said or make religion say that which it never taught.” This statement is no less than revolutionary. Few will realize what a change this implies in official Catholic poli6y. Back in 1864 Pope Pius IX issued the Syllabus of Errors, which condemned the most Important aspects of scientific and scholaily progress In modern times. Nearly a half century later, in 1907, Pope Pius X Issued the Encyclical “Pascendi gregis.” This vigorously condemned those Catholic scholars who were endeavoring to bring Catholicism into harmony with the demonstrated results of science and scholarship. It seemed for the moment as though science was to be excluded from the Catholic fold. Now Pius XI apparently takes the advanced position that Catholicism welcomes all scientific discoveries and their implications. No more significant statement has been made in the whole history of Christendom. Let us see just what is implied. This can, perhaps, best be made clear by listing the outstanding scientific triumphs, most of which have hitherto been opposed by the church. Foremost, we might note the new physics, which has destroyed all older theories of scientific causation. Having disrupted the former notion of fixed sci^tific

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laws, it has made it difficult any longer to identify the laws of God with the laws of science. Next, perhaps, comes the new astrophysics. This has wiped out the old Newtonian world-machine, which gav6 liberal theologians such satisfaction in the latter part of the seventeenth century—a universe following fixed and orderly laws and exhibiting the designing providence of God. Now, as Waldemar Kaempfert expresses it, “gone is the old certainty about the universe. Gone is the old machine. We have an accidental universe of events in a strange geometrical world of many dimensions, time being one of them—a world which only a mathematician cam understand.” Along with this we have the revised views of the incomprehensible extent and complexity of our physical universe—a galaxy of galaxies of galaxies. Our little galaxy of 20,000,000,000 suns and planets (6,000,000,000,000x300,000 miles in diameter) is only one of about a million thus far discovered in so much of the physical universe as we have brought within our gaze. All this is very upsetting to the geocentric implications of Christ’s mission and his vicarious sacrifice for the inhabitants of this planet. Biology has made many contributions hitherto regarded as a challenge to orthodox religion—evolution versus creation, an understanding of genetics and the resulting guidance in birth control. Psychology has distressed many religionists by its naturalistic analysis of what was once looked upon as the mystery of the soul, by its indication that one can not expect a literal perpetuation of the human personality after death, and by its calm and naturalistic description of the hitherto mysterious fact of religious conversion, experience and transformation. The social sciences have reversed the older religious conception of the purpose of life; namely, spiritual salvation in a world to come. The social sciences contend that the goal of life is happiness here and now. Science, applied to the investigation of the authorship of the Bible, has proved that it is not the direct revelation of God, but the work of men running over a period of more than 1,200 years, much of the original having fceen lost or greatly altered by subsequent editorial changes. From this scanty summary of some outstanding phases of scientific advances, one can discern the great importance of the Pope’s proclamation. Assuming him to be speaking with due deliberation, the carping critics of religion and Catholicism will have slim picking in the future. — - . * Babies Worth $750,000,000 Out of the nation’s 1930 crop of 3,000,000 babies it is estimated that 200,000 died before they reached one year of age. The official figures for the registration area alone, minus Utah, are 140,518 baby deaths. Cash value of these babies has been estimated by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company at $750,000,000. This does not include the uncomputable losses from destroying potential inventors, discoverers, other creators of wealth. At least three-fourths of these 200,000 dead babies might have been saved, for their deaths were due largely to ignorance, improper feeding, lack of prenatal care of mothers, and other preventable causes. Had these 200,000 babies been born in New Zealand, where baby rai? is more of a science, at least 80,000 of them would be alive and flourishing today. At the last session of congress, an attempt was made to reduce this slaughter of the innocents by re-enacting the Sheppard-Towner law for federal aid to states for infancy and maternity care. This law, credited with having saved 25,000 babies’ lives annually in its eight years of duration, had been allowed to die in 1929. It would have been enacted again last year but for jealousies as to its administration, White House interference, petty politics. Senator Wesley Jones and Representative William B. Bankhead have reintroduced the compromise measure that passed the house last session. Its main features were acceptable to the United States children’s bureau, the League of Women Voters, and sponsors of maternity-infancy legislation. This bill should be made into law without delay, the fatal and costly blunders of last session should not be repeated this year. Nineteen nudists were freed when a New York court decided they had not outraged public decency “because none of the public saw it.” In which it seems nudism may be all right, but we can’t see it. Probably the reason we can’t get out of this depression is every expert’s got the whole thing in a nutshell. Whether Japan is muscling in on Manchuria, or China’s muscling out, isn’t clear. In any case it’s an awful racket. And now it’s feared China will force a war on Japan. And, obviously, that Japan will accept it.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A GOOD many of our girls are unlike their grandmothers. One of the most striking points of dissimilarity is their refusal to follow their husbands into unknown neighborhoods. Whereas the pioneer woman was ready to brave any dangers to trek with her man into the wilderness, a few girls—and let us be thankful we can add the qualifying adjective—now rebel at the idea of moving from Baltimore to Columbus. Investigations will prove that they are given encouragement by indulgent mothers. For the cause of this kind of behavior it may be traced usually to parental influence and teaching, or to disinclination of a mother to be parted from her child. Yet this is the poorest sort of beginning for married life, as everybody should know. And it will react most disastrously upon the rebellious partner of the contract. FOR when a woman fails to fulfill her part of the matrimonial bargain and begins to work against, rather than with, her mate, she is not worthy of his consideration, and seldom gets it for long. Men, therefore, who are deserted at the crucial moment of their lives by young cry-babies who fly back to mother, or who refuse to leave her in the old home town, are almost certain to find better wives later on, who will work with them and reap with them the rewards of success. And wha,t, then, becomes of the poor little spoiled creature who flees at the zero hour? We seldom hear so much of her afterward. For she probably drags out a rather drab existence, and when she finds herself an aging woman, without home or children, she may curse the day she ever listened to her mother or to her own weak fears. And she will be justified in doing so. The worst characteristic of the too-prevalent "mama s darling" type of modem girl is that she la a coward. And no coward ever won tar herself love otfife or laughter. wL Mratf. I

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

After Wrestling With Prohibition for Twelve Years, the Finns Admit They Made a Mistake. Isn’t it About Time We Did the Same? NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Another New Year’s eve goes into hisj tory, with the usual amount of j noise to no purpose. Some celebrated it by praying, some by getting drunk and some by making silly resolutions. Hooch flowed freely in spite of all the dry raids; tin whistles, cow bells, autos trained to backfire and other sound-producing devices were brought into action in spite of all the broadcasting, and, generally speaking, people conducted themselves about as they had during the last twenty-five years. u n tt Sounds Like 1931 THE morning after, they crawled sleepily forth to find that more bombs had been mailed, that the Italian and Argentinian embassies in Washington were under guard, that Chicago’s tax rolls for 1928 and 1929 had been declared invalid, that prophet Gandhi and the viceroy of India had failed to agree, that Japan had gained virtually complete control of Manchuria, that the Finns had turned down prohibition by a three-to-one vote, after twelve years of “noble experimenting,” that the germ of infantile paralysis had been isolated, and a lot of other things that sounded just like 1931. n tt tt Not So Different * WE are living in the same world that existed last Thursday. There has been no change, except such as occurs during any two days. Nature took no note that a milepost was being passed, and if the calendar hadn’t said so, the wisest of us never would have guessed it. The cue is to “take up” where we left off and “carry on.” We have kissed nfithihg gobd-by, and there is nothing ahead contrary to the inexorable laws ofi evolution, or the inevitable consequences of our own folly. V tt tt 1929 'Fool’s Paradise’ MANY still hope that 1929 will come back, just as though it could and just as though it were not a more unhealthy year than 1931. Sensible folks are beginning to realize that the depression was not such a mistake as the “fool’s paradise” which preceded it. Some commodity prices are down to the pre-war level, and while that may be nothing to cheer about, it is far from being an irremedial disaster. This country was not such a bad place in which to live just before the war. Wages were not quite so high, it is true, but neither were rents, and if we didn’t have the radio, we didn’t have the racket and gang rule. tt u Billions for Leggers DURING the last decade, we have been paying bootleggers a billion dollars or so each year. Before the war we paid the federal government an excise tax and contributed a large amount to cities and towns through license fees. If prohibition represents any moral gain, which is doubtful, it certainly involves a money loss which should not be overlooked when trying to account for the federal deficit. tt Finns Admit Mistake AFTER wrestling with prohibition for twelve years, the people of Finland admit that they made a mistake. Isn’t it about time that we did the came? What is the use of keeping up such a tragic farce? Even the efforts at enforcement have ceased to be sincere, while the habit of law-breaking with regard to liquor has led to the sanction and encouragement of many kinds of crookedness. n tt tt Still in the Mire LIKE 1931, the new year finds us • struggling to get out of a mire which is not wholly economic in character. Fad, freak and fashion have had something to do with the breakdown of business, especially those which have crept into law. Prohibition, the tariff, bureaucracy, duplicate departments, inflated pay rolls—what have they cost? No, indeed, you can think of much worse calamities than going back to some of the conditions which prevailed just before the war and starting over again.

M TODAY 39 Sir IS THE- <,v ; WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

GERMANY’S DEMAND Jan. 2 ON Jan. 2, 1918, Germany demanded that Russia relinquish the territories of Poland, Courland, Esthonia and Lithuania. Rumanian troops were reported to have occupied the Bessarabian town, of Loevo and to have arrested some Bolshevist headers, and to have shot others. Swiss troops, on duty on Lake Constance, fired on the German lake steamer Kaiser Wilhelm, which entered Swiss territorial waters. Italians dispersed a flotilla loaded with Austrian troops which was attempting to cross the Piave river at Intestadura. What became of Gavrilo Prinzip, the man who assassinated the crown prince of Austria? He was an Austro-Hungarian subject, and was tried at Sarajevo, in Bosnia. Being *.ot yet 20 years old he was below the age for the death penalty, and was incarcerated in the prison fortress of Theresienstadt, where he tied of tuberculosis before the end of the World war. What is the population of Russia? It is 147,013,609. Is until spelled with one or two i’s? It Is spelled until

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE—- , „ * * ff .-f Trachoma Often Cause of Blindness

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. OF the infectious conditions which attack the eye, trachoma is by far the most serious problem because it is most prevalent. It has been shown that this disease is spread by direct contact with infected people and indirectly by contact with articles freshly soiled with the discharges of those who are infected. Trachoma, or infectious granulation of the eyelids, is not in itself dangerous to life, because practically no one dies of this disease, but a vast amount of blindness is caused by trachoma and all this blindness is preventable. One of the most serious problems

IT SEEMS TO ME

I HAVE imposed a job on myself for the new year. lam going to get a baseball bat and beat the living daylights out of everybody I can reach in an effort to bring home the conviction that the only way out of chaos lies in fellowship. People bristle at the word “socialism,” so there will be no great harm in meaning precisely the same thing and calling it, for a little while, “industrial democracy.” The least logical and the most effective barrier to the growth of radical thought and action in this country has been the cry: “It’s unAmerican.” And ydt the seed of industrial democracy was planted here more than a decade before the beginning of the nineteenth century. The vision of the co-operative commonwealth was enunciated jn a document known to all of us and heeded by very few. There is a reason. tt st tt At Two Great Shrines IN the American schoolroom the pupil is asked to study and reverence the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution. That is difficult, because if he studies both he will find that they say, in many respects, diametrically opposite things. Reconcile, if you can, “All men are created free and equal” and “No person held to service or labor in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another shall in consequence of any law or regulation therein be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on the claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.” To be sure, this was wiped out in 1865 by the adoption of the thirteenth amendment, abolishing slavery, but it will suffice to indicate •that there had occurred a certain cooling of the revolutionary spirit between the signing of the Declaration and the signing of the Constitution. It was inevitable that such a process should take place. A price of 500 pounds was on the heads of those who signed the Declaration. They were enlisted in a cause which might quite probably be overthrown. No man who is willing to risk his head is going to be too finicky about his property rights. After the victory many revolutionists remembered that they were also large landholders. It hardly will be denied that the Constitution is studded with checks and balances for the preservation of the social order as it stood in 1787. There had been a great political upheaval, but the economic repercussions were slight. In many vital respects a farm laborer in Virginia lived in approximately the same circumstances under George Washington as he had lived under George the Third. st st st New Englander Grows Hot IN 1886 the son of a Baptist minister living in Chicopee Falls, Mass., grew concerned about this. His name was Edward Bellamy, and his grandfather had been an associate of Jonathan Edwards. In other words, he was thoroughly New England, thoroughly middle class and wholly respectable. Karl Marx, a member of the German .bourgeoisie, had written “Das Kapital” almost nineteen years before, but though there are many

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related to trachoma in this country is the control of the disease among the American Indians, and among the poorer classes in the foreign population. t When a person is found to have trachoma he should be excluded from classes in school or if a worker in a factory from any possible contact with other workers. Certainly he should not be permitted to use the same washing facilities, roller towels, and similar toilet articles in public places which constitute a source for the spread of this disease. Washing in public places should be preferably with running water, without having to touch either the faucet or the stopper. Physicians who handle this dis-

striking similarities in thought, I can find no indication that Bellamy was familiar with the work of his German predecessor. Indeed, he went directly to the Declaration of Independence as the foundation stone for his philosophy. He reasoned that equality meant nothing unless it included economic equality and that it was ridiculous to guarantee “liberty and the pursuit of happiness” to anybody who worked under starvation wages or none at all. And so he wrote in his last book, “Equality:” “The two great points of the revolutionary program—the principle of economic equality and a nationalized industrial system as it means and pledges—the American people were p°culiarly adapted to understand and appreciate. “The lawyers had made a Constitution of the United States, but the true American Constitution—the

Questions and Answers

Are the words “tool”j,nd “apparatus” synonymous? The dictionary definitions of the two words are as follows: “Apparatus, any complex device or machine designed or prepared for accomplishment of a special purpose; also, a collection of tools, appliances, materials, etc., as that necessary* to the pursuit of a profession; as surgical or chemical apparatus. Apparatus is more commonly applied to implements for scientific investigation or artistic or professional work than to those used for handcraft purposes. Tool, a simple mechanism or implement, as a hammer, chisel, plane, spade or file used in working, moving or transforming material.” Is ivory obtained from any source other than the tusks of elephants? Besides the elephant’s tusk we recognize as ivory, for commercial purposes, the teeth of the hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal, cachalot or sperm-whale and of some animals of the wild boar class, such as the wart-hog of South Africa. Can birds of paradise be imported into the United States? When alive they can be imported, but the plumage can not. This is done to aid in the protection of these birds and to discourage the traffic in plumes. How did General Pershing get the nickname “Black Jack”? It is believed that the nickname originated sometime between 1895 and 1899, when General Pershing was tactical instructor at West Point. He was also an officer of the Tenth calvary, a Negro regiment. The cadets applied the nickname “Black Jack” or “Nigger Jack.” How many stars are visible to the naked eye? About 5,000. What was the population of New York in 1919? Four million seven hundred sixtysix thousand eight hundred eightythree. When did Ignace Jan Paderewski make his first appearance in America? In New York, in 1891.

ease prescribe solutions of zinc and copper with suitable antiseptic substances for use on the eyelids as specific preventive measures. The disease best is controlled by routine examination of human beings who are associated constantly in educational, housing or working groups. Emigrants, school children, the inmates of orphan homes and of homes for the indigent, and employees in lumber camps and in construction camps should be regularly examined with the idea of prevention of trachoma in mind. Delay in the treatment of infectious granulation of the eyelids is an extremely serious matter because of the tendency of this condition to result in permanent blindness.

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one written on the people’s hearts—always had remained the immortal Declaration with its assertion of the inalienable equality of all men.” The Almost Perfect State F I "'HEREUPON Bellamy endeaJ- vored to outline the structure of the almost perfect state. He did not think America was quite ready yet. “Revolutions which start too soon stop too soon,’ he said. Many of the things which he visioned are strikingly similar to certain phases of the Soviet state, but Bellamy was firm in the belief that the change would and could come only through the political power of an informed majority. He even thought of one of the existing major parties becoming the radical party of the future through public pressure. It may be that not all his predictions will come to pass, but concerning at least one minor phase of American life Bellamy displayed an uncanny prophetic insight. He was, among other things, the spiritual father of the radio broadcast, for in 1888 he had his Utopian heroine of “Looking Backward” explain to a visitor from an earlier age: “There are a number of music rooms ip the city perfectly adapted acoustically to different sorts of music. Each day’s program lasts the twenty-four hours. “Any one of the four pieces now going on that you prefer you can hear by merely pressing the button which Will connect your home wire with the hall where it is being rendered.” And again, “He showed how, by turning a screw, the volume of the music could be made to' fill the room or die away to an echo so faint and far that one could scarcely be sure whether he heard or imagined it.” It seems to me that a man who could predict Rudy Vallee almost fifty years in advance quite conceivably might predict almost anything. (Copyright. 1932. bv The Times)

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Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this naner.—The Editor.

-J/'. t 2, 1932

SCIENCE

BY DAVID DIETZ

In Nile Valley Lies Story of, Man’s Progress From Physical World to Spiritual Realms, Says Dr. James Henry Breasted. npHE story of how mankind pro- -*• gresßed from an awareness of the physical world to an awareness of the spiritual world is found in the ancient history of the Nile valley, according to Dr. James Henry Breasted, famous historian and archeologist, and director of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. “From the time that man gained agriculture, his life periodically has been involved in a struggle between the tremendous impression received from the natural world and the human impulses that are engendered by social experience and social struggle,” Dr. Breasted says. “In the Nile valley we can watch the first of these periodic struggles and with sympathetic understanding we can follow the first freak age of spiritual disillusionment. “We watch the triumphant conquest of material forces, at first slow and then moving with astounding rapidity as these ancient Nile dwellers came completely under the spell of their material triumphs.” tt tt tt The Great Pyramid KHUFU-ONEKH. architect of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, was preceded by only three generations of architects in stone, Dr. Breasted says. “Conceive then,” he continues, “the dauntless courage of the man who told his surveyors to lay out the square base 755 feet on each side. “This Is the first time in the history 6f man that we are thus able to put our yard-stick athwart a hti- * mah fnind and take the measure of its’courhge in terms of cubic feet ofmaisonr# and colossal achievement in Engineering never again to “be:: equalled. * “The Great Pyramid of Gizeh is thus a document in the history pf the human mind. It clearly discloses man’s sense of sovereign power in his triumph over material forces. “Here, then, was a man still under the tremendous impression of the physical world, but not yet aware of the world within him. “When five or six hundred years of desert storms had buffeted the Great Pyramid, a thoughtful Egyptian looked up at the pyramids and sang of the colossal futility of merely physical survival of the body. The human soul had entered the first great age of disillusionment. We begin to hear remote voices that proclaim the utter futility of material conquest.” tt tt tt The Moral Vision. AS if through the dust and tumult of a n engrossing conflict man for the first time caught something of the veiled splendor of the moral vision, says Dr. Breasted. “He began to hear the voices within himself and out of the conflict of social forces, he gradually became conscious of the inner values,” he says. “Thus the Egyptians were the discoverers of character. “In the museum halls we actually can look up the evidence of the transition from the age of materialism to the ag| of conscience and character. “You will find in our Egyptian hall a group of statuettes with which a cemetery official nearly 5,000 years ago equipped his tomb. They represent his household, his children and his servants engaged in grinding flour, baking bread, brewing beer, casting metal. “Thus in the Pyramid Age the Egyptian conceived his needs in the hereafter as being purely physical gratification. “Alongside the case containing the statuettes is a cedar coffin with a raised lid, bearing on the inside pictures of the food and drink which carry on the old ideas of the needs of man beyond the grave. But on the inside of the lid is a ' long writing containing the earliest Intimations that happiness in the next world will be dependent on worthy moral conduct in this world. “There was a lapse of perhaps 500 years between the cemetery of- . ficial who wanted merely food and ’ drink in the next world and the dead man who had his coffin so painted that as he lay in it and looked up at the lid, he would have staring him in the face the new fact that he might expect felicity beyond only as he had lived a worthy life here.”

Daily Thought

Thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting.— Daniel 5:27. Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow.—Pope. Could a diamond be crushed by a blow from a hammer? Although the hardest known substance, the diamond is brittle, and can be smashed by a hard blow.