Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1918 — AN OLD TRUTH REVIVED [ARTICLE]

AN OLD TRUTH REVIVED

Every day now the line is being more sharply drawn between the real, self-sacrificing patriot, and the profiteer hiding under a cloak of blatant loyalty. Nineteen hundred years ago. the Man of Gallilec quietly remarked to a company of friends and followers that • “it is more blessed to give than to receive.’’ At the time it made little impression upon his hearers, and in the centunries since that day men have grasped it merely as a theoretical truth, with no real thought of (making it a life principal. But the i present woYld cataclasm has put people to thinking seriously of this statement of the great Teacher. People with -no claims to religious convictions are waking up to the fact that underlying the statement is found the true secret of life. We are coming to see more clearly every day that the selfish life is the miserable life, stunting and dwarfing all the finer qualities of our nature that have, elevated us as a race so immeasurably above the human brutes with whom we now do battle. When the final history of this War is written, those whose namt* will go down at the head of the honor’list will not be the profiteers who grasped millions from a suffering world; but those who gave, and gave, and gave, till they could give no more who stripped themselves of earthly possessions to gain a crown that all earth and hell can never deprive them of— The proud consciousness that they have “done what they could’’ for humanity and the RIGHT.