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Omaha* Where the West is at its Best
WHEN NATURE LOOSES FORCE.
A terrible manifestation of the awful power of
nature has just been recorded. Nearly a thousand
lives blotted out, other thousands maimed and crip
plied, so that many will probably die. Millions of
dollars’ worth of property has been destroyed. Al
most, it might be said, by a puff. The storm at its
worst did not last longer than four minutes where
the damage wrought was heaviest. The mind re
fuses to conceive the awful force thus demonstrated.
Yet it is but a result of a natural law. The con
flict between the cold and warm currents of the air,
set ih motion by the heat of the sun. So simple is it
in its mechanics that even the child will understand
it. So terrible in its effects that the wisest mind
does not comprehend its full significance. The gen
tle, yielding atmosphere, that so softly enfolds all
that live and move in its embrace. ' That yields to
every movement of the body, so unresistingly that we
forget it is there. The generous element, essential
to our existence. It becomes suddenly an agent of
destruction, so powerful, so uncontrolled, that men
■re helpless before it.
One correspondent, writing of the progress of
the storm, in a fine phrase of metaphor, refers to It
as resembling the writhing of a wounded boa
constrictor. It lashed, and struck, and crushed, aim
lessly, but fearfully. Wreaking such destruction as
only the unguided power of such a visitant can
wreak. Nothing In its path Is left. Men wonder
and shiver, when viewing the tTail over which a tor
nado has swept its devastating presence.
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All the boasted accomplishments of man seem to
dwindle when this display of nature’s power is pre
sented. We talk of wresting the secrets from the
forces that surround us. But man’s mildest fancy
has but faintly visioned the possibilities of those
things that, latent, are beneficent, but when released
and stirred into action, become the most awful
agents of destruction.
This has been going on “since first the flight of
years began.” The earliest of sentient beings were
spectators of these combats in the air. Man's first
years must have been marked by the tornadoes, ty
phoons, cyclones, that disturbed him. His fright at
'.hese great manifestations of the demons of the air
is not lessened because of ages that have given him (
opportunity to observe and inquire. Meteorologists
may mark, and track the swoop of such a monster,
but none can divest it of its attributes. First of all
is the terror it inspires, even in the boldest bosom.
Vagrant, errant, relentless, the storm swirls and
writhes, guideless, seemingly without purpose or ob
ject. Hufnan habitations are wiped out, as figures
are sponged from a blackboard. Lives are snuffed
out, bodies are crushed and mangled. Death rides
the winds, and tlja roar of the storm, the flash of
the lightning, the crash of the thunder, and the dash
of the torrential rains, are the grim music to which
the destroyer dances.
• • •
Whan the fullness of the storm Is passed, and the
■tupendous energy of which it has been begotten is
■pent, the winds die away, the clouds disappear, and
the eun comes out, and nature smiles around the
wreckage of the dreadful scene. Soon the grass will
spring up, the flowers will bloom, and birds will sing
amongst the leafy branches of the trees that were
left untouched. Black scars left by the tornado,
where homes were blotted out, where lives were ob
literated, where the works of man were overturned
and wiped away, soon will pass. Men will go on, as
they always have, forgetting at timee the chance
that may strike them as others have been stricken.
For nature never beams so kindly as when making
amends for such a visitation.
After all, it Is but tha fulfillment of the law. No
effect is possible without a cause. Sometimes those
effects must ba evil. The zephyr that sweetly stirs
the evening air, and softens the twilight of a summer
day la born from the same cause as that which-sets
in motion the dreadful wind that burst over the
doomed towns, hamlets and country homes over such
• stretch that five states mourn the result. Man
may not understand, but God’s law rules always.
CONGRATULATIONS. ROY WILCOX.
Tha congratulations of the people of Omaha are
due Roy Wilcox, president of the Omaha Athletic
club. Congratulations, too, are due those who have
helped him so loyally In the efforts to reorganize
the Athletic club and save it for Omaha. The Omaha
Bee voices that congratulation. The campaign to se
cure the reeded funds and the added membership
is now assured of success.
This success has been made certain by the action
of J. L. Brandeis & Sons, the First National Rank
end the United States National Bank. The re
financing plans contemplated that these three insti
tutions, together with other unsecured creditors,
would take in cash one-half of the money due them.
This in itself was a sacrifice. Now they have come
forward and announced that instead of cash, they
will take this one-half in preferred stock.
To have accomplished this is a fine record for
Roy Wilcox and hia fellow-workers. They require
now additional subscriptions in the amount of $39,
900 and 200 additional members. These will ba
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forthcoming. When the next general meeting of
the club is held it will he to cheer for the accom
plishment of the entire task.
Again, our congratulations to Roy Wilcox and to
those who have made his job of saving the Athletic
club a success.
PROFESSIONAL POLICEMEN.
Again it is a pleasure to commend the activity of
Inspector Pszanowski of the Omaha police force. He
is now instructing the men under his guidance in
what he terms “Twenty-four Don’ts for Policemen.”
It is a move to procure greater efficiency and im
proved public service, by training the men in their
duties. As a body the Omaha police will compare
with any similar organization in the country. But
the fundamental defects in the American police sys
tem are as noticeable here as elsewhere.- The men
lack careful training in the special duties they are
expected to perform. Peculiar qualifications are re
quire^ in a really good police officer. When these
are discovered and developed, the public is in pos
session of a treasure tlTat should be held to.
In Europe the policeman is a trained' expert, a
professional, just as truly as any thoroughly de
veloped and tested expert in any line may become.
He has taken up a life work, for his job is permanent
as long as he remains true to his duties. In time he
retires on a pension that at least secures his com
fort in his old age. During his active life the public
receives the benefit of his services. He is partisan
only to law and order. Comparison of criminal
statistics reflects in a large measure the difference
between the European and the American policeman.
Records do not disclose in any European city a
parallel to the recent experience of Cincinnati,
where forty-eight officers and men of the city’s po
lice department were indicted by a grand jury for
crimes against the public.
Raymond B. Fosdick, in his work on “American
Police Systems,” says:
"To an American who has Intimately studied the
operation of European police Bystems, nothing can
he more discouraging than a similar survey of the
police of the United States. . . . He recalls the
unbroken record of rectitude which many of their
forces maintain and their endeavor to create, with
the aid of expert leadership, a maturing profession.
He remembers the infinite pains with which the po
lice administrator are trained a ,d chosen, and the
care with which the forces are shielded from po
litical Influence. Vivid in his mind is the recollec
tion of the manner in which science and modern
business methods are being applied to the detection
of crime, so that on the whole the battle with the
criminal is being fought with steadily increasing
effectiveness.”
Inspector Pszanowski’s twenty-four don’ts may
not result in the immediate attainment of an ideal
police force. He is moving in the right direction,
however. Some support must be given by the pub
lic. When the citizens come to realize all that is
meant by a police force, and will help in creating
and maintaining one, we may get the results. It Is
good to see an experienced police officer setting
about to better the service.
A PINT OF LIQUOR MAKES A BOOTLEGGER.
One of the unusual manifestations of the modern
era ia the presence in parallel activities of the zeal
of those who would make mankind good by statute,
and the abandon of those who would throw off all re
straint.
From these two streams of social conduct we
hear constant complaint. The zeal of the reformer
has turned into a determination as blind and as
harsh as was the zeal of the old witch-finders. If
the laws that govern conduct are not rigorous
enough, make them more rigorous. If in turn that
does not curb men's appetites then make the laws so
rigorous that they will become terrible.
We have before us in Nebraska an example of
such zeal—the passage of the pint of liquor law. To
those who have any knowledge of the psychology of
human behavior such a law is an absurdity. The
net result of it will be to enlarge the ever-increasing
army of men and women who are deliberately turn
ing to jazz and the demand for the removal of re
straint* of all kinds.
From the beginning of human society, murder
has been looked upon as a crime. Thus the law against
carrying concealed weapons has the support of so
ciety behind it. From the beginning of civilization,
too, robbery and burglary have been considered
crimes. Society supports the arrest of men caught
with burglars’ tools. Yet the possession of a con
cealed weapon does not in and of itself prove a
man a murderer. Nor does the possession of
burglar’s tools prove a man a burglar.
It has remained for the enforcers of the law
against liquor, a law which is only a few years old,
to resort to the ways of the inquisition. Under the
terms of the Nebaska law, mere possession of a pint
of liquor proves its possessor to be a bootlegger.
It is an absurd law. One of those laws that de
feats itself. It is regretted that Governor McMullen
had neither the wisdom nor the courage to veto it.
UNIVERSITY AND THE LEGISLATURE.
The senate, by a close vote, defeated the ap
propriation for new buildings at the University of
Nebraska and for the normal schools. No greater
surprise has come out of Lincoln this session. When
the appropriation was passed hy the house, it was be
lieved the measure would find comparatively smooth
sailing in ths upper body. The case for the univer
sity could not have been made stronger. Need for
building is so plain that argument seemed unneces
sary. Increase in the student body hss so com
pletely outrun the provisions for raring for the stu
dents that it was thought this alone would convince
the members of the propriety of expending money
on needed buildings.
If the sum requested had been such as on its face
bore evidence of extravagance, reason for opposition
might have been found. As a matter of fact, the
amount requested was modest. Even less than the
sum Omaha is expending to bring its city school sys
tem up to the needs of the community. A total of
$3,000,000 was asked for the university, to he ex
tended over a period of ten years, or $300,000 a
year. This is the equRnlent of 25 cents per capita
per annum for the state's population, or less than
one-half of 1 cent per week. /
Yet even this insignificant sum is denied by the
senators to the university. That great institution,
already hampered hy lack of physical equipment,
will be compelled to shorten its stride. To limp along
as best it can for the next two yeeurs. The tax
would have amounted to I 'is rents per aero on tha
cultivated lands of I he state, had it all been laid on
the farms alone. On the assessment roll of I!I24,
less than three fifths of the tax would have been Inld
on farm lands. Or less than I cent per acre. So the
burden would not have affected the farmer seriously,
msr will its absence materially lighten his load of
taxes. It will, though, seriously affect the Univer
( sity of Nobraaka. T ^
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Nebraska’s Place in History
John Lee W ebster Reviews the Story of the Stole brom
Earliest Days, and 'Tolls How Its Sturdy Pioneers Gave
TAfe to Visions and Developed an Empire From Desert.
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By JOHN I,EE WEBSTER.
Nebraska is a land which rose up from the nshes
of Hie ages and stands colossal among the states—a
land richer in its bountiful prairies than if it had moun
tains filled with mines of gold and silver.
Kvrv\ where these rich and rolling prairies, which
had lain for unnumbered centuries as blank leaves In
nature's history, are now being written upon by tlio
hand of toil, commerce and trade, as pages in the
world's progress.
Nebraska stands unique In American history, it has
been closely associated with the great epoch in our
country's development. It tiaces its beginning bark 1o
llie Louisiana Purchase, which was the first great
acquisition to United States territory, and demonstrated
the power of the nation to indulge in exclusion—not
an acquisition by greed or conquest, but essential to
meet the needs of an expanding republic.
There followed after til* debate on the Nebraska
bill of 1854 an agitation in favor of universal freedom
that swept like a whirlwind over all of the northern
states, and which was followed by four years of civil
war, but which resulted in a happier and better and
greater nation than ever before.
It was that same Nebraska hill of which Charles
Sumner, one of the greatest scholars, statesmen and
philanthropists of the age. in a speech delivered in the
United States senate at the hour of midnight on May
25, 1854, said:
"Sir, the bill you are about to pass Is at once the
worst and the best on which congress ever acted. Yes,
sir, the worst and the best at the same time. . . .
"It is the best bill on -which congress ever acted:
l'or It answers all past compromises with slavery, and
makes any future compromises impossible. . . .
"More clearly than ever before, I now penetrate
that great future when slavery must disappear. Proudly,
I discern the flag of my country, as it ripples in every
breeze, at last in reality, as in name, the flag of free
dom—undoubted, pure and irresistible. Am I hot right
then In calling this bill the best on which congress ever
acted? Sorrowfully I bend before the wrong you com
mit. Joyfully I welcome the promises of the future."
It may w-ell be said of the Nebraska bill of 1854,
that the star of individual destiny of Stephen A. Doug
las paled in the light of that sun of liberty which rose
to Its zenith after the tumult and strife of war which
swept the country with Iron hail end deluged it with
blood, but it opened the pathway over the rough and
t-loody road to freedom for 4,000,000 of bondsmen, and to
the immortal glory of Abraham Lincoln, America’s chief
idol of humanity.
• • •
Nebraska sustains a very unique position In the his
tory of the United States from other standpoints. This
western region was entirely unknown to the people of
Boston when they threw the tea Into the harbor and
when the battle of Bunker Hill was fought. It was no
part of the American colonies at the time when Jeffer
son wrote the Declaration of Independence, nor while
Washington waged the extended War of the Revolu
tion. John Adams, the firebrand of independence, knew
nothing of any lands west of the Alleghanles. The
framers of the Federal Constitution of 1787 had no rea
son to anticipate that these western prairies and plains
would ever become a part of United States territory
or subject to Its sovereignty. It was only through one
of the most marvelous chains of adventure and dis
covery, and of numerous transfers of national sov
ereignty, that we became m part of the great republic
and the opportunity arose by which Nebraska might be
admitted Into the union as a state. »
Dooklng bai®iWrard to 1682, we can see, es If It were
a vision, the daring. Intrepid and venturesome I-aSalle
penetrating his way through vast wildernesses to the
mouth of the Mississippi.
We now read from the pages of history how I*
Salle, this great discoverer, and the first great pioneer,
pointing the way to civilization to enter these regions,
proclaiming In a voice, that may not have been heard
more than 100 yards from where he stood, that, by vir
tue of his discovery of a tremendous territory, he gave
all the Mississippi valley and the regions north to
British America, and w^tward to the crest of the
Rocky mountains, to the aoverelgnty of the king of
France.
In 1763, we see another vision of the transfer of
sovereignty to the Catholic king of Spain and the In
dies and. for more titan a quarter of a century, laws
were administered by Spanish rollers and treaties were
made In the name of the king of Spain with the chiefs
of Indian tribes throughout these regions.
Now, again, we see another vision, when the un
scrupulous diplomat Talleyrand, ambitious to restore
himself to favor with Napoleon, Induced the king and
queen of Spain to recede all these regions te the new
republic of France. But It was only a few years later
when that sagacious military genius perceived that it
would be wiser to transfer all these regions to the
United States thajt to permit them to be acquired
|iy«*tlie military prowess of England, and so 1t came
about in 1803 that Ihese great western lands, with their
vast wastes of forest verdure, With their bordering
mountains, silent in primeval sleep, with their prairies
which were oceans of wilderness mingling w it It the
sky, practically an untamed continent, became a part
of the expanding, developing, growing republic of the
United State* of America. “It was Napoleon, whatever
Ills motive. Napoleon, In the name of the French people,
who gave the United States the possibility of becoming
a world power.”
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Grouping together these visions, from the first ex
ploitation and discovery of an uninhabited country by
ihe Frenchman I.aSalle, and the changes of these lands
from one national sovereignty to another, the mingling
of different races of people, with their different lan
guages and habits and tastes, the Frenchman, the
Spaniard, the Indian, the black man, and finally the
Anglo-Saxon with his English language, and our mod
ern civilization—all united as we see them today under
the new democracy—the history of Nebraska, in its
great scope, seems like the history of the human race
from the creation of man until this modern day of his
greatest advancements and achievements.
The changes which have come over the great west,
beginning at New Orlearj^ tn 1682 and spreading and
expanding and developing it until it has reached that
high degree of superlative excellence In the slate of
Nebraska, furnishes a theme for the historian more
fascinating than that which the world has heretofore
produced. In the language of Prof. Flske, the only ex
ceptions are “when Herodotus told the story of Greece
und Persia, or when Gibbon's pages resounded with the
marshaled hosts through a thousand years of change.’’
The true story of the western pioneers has never
been w ritten, and it never will be until a man shall come
who can describe with a pen as clear and an Imagina
tion as vivid as that with which Parkman toid the story
of the conspiracy of Pontiac and of the French Cana
dians, or until the coming of another genius like Pres
cott, who gave us that unforgetable and glowing de
scription of the Spanish conquests in Peru, and the in
vasion of Mexico by Cortez, and that inimitable de
scription of the Montezumas.
• • •
TVhen these migrants first crossed the Missouri
river, they entered upon a land which In prehistoric
times had a brooding deathlike silence. They built their
adobe houses upon barren prairies, and waste uplands,
which were mute witnesses of sotne unknown and for
gotten past. The drifting sands had filled up the foot
prints of unknown and unnumbered generations of
primitive races of men who had perished from the
earth. Tha tillable soil which they found had been en
riched by the blood and fertilised by the decayed dead
from many bloody Indian battlefields.
It may properly be aald of these pioneers that they
awakened the west from Its primeval sleep of count
less ages.
In their hours of solitude, they gazed at the stars
until they learned to appreciate their beauty and mys
tery, and they listened to the wind and tried to guess
Its meaning. For want of libraries, they did not have
opportunities of reading the philosophy of Emerson,
nor the beautiful conceptions of life as witnessed by
P.uskln, but they lived the life which these men taught.
They did not have the volumes of poets, but, as said by
another: "The true poetry of life is not found in the
epics men have created, but in the sources that inspired
them. In the glories of the earth and the air, in the
stars and mountains, and forest and streams and fields,
in man, in the birds and animats, in the turning of the
soil with the plow and spade, and in the growing corn.
These ere the things which, before all else, add to the
spiritual growth ef man and lnapire him to pray and
hope, to sing and to love, and draw him close to the
Invisible world because they are a part of tha life of
men."
They lived as closely si possible to nature. They
cultivated the soil, they watched the fruit end the flow
ers and the grain grow, and they wandered from ranch
to ranch as the longing seized them. Out of this wilder
ness of nature, these pioneers helped to found a new
state. The prairie which they plowed up and adapted
its sol! to agriculture seemed to welcome the ringing
of Industry of a new civilization.
For more than a hundred years the planters of Vir
ginia and the Puritans of New England were European
sentinels standing guard on the Atlantic seaboard for
old England. Our pioneers hate made the desert an
epitaph on the tombstone of time, and began the creat
ing of a new western democracy that Is making Its in
fluence felt around the globe.
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World Illiteracy
From th# Nsw York Tim##.
When Galeottl, th# shrewd astrolo
ger in "Quentin Durward," told I*oule
XI of the change# that the new In
vention of printing must bring to
pass, the equally ahrewd monarch
asked whether these change# would
happen in his own time. Informed
that they would not, he promptly lost
Interest. It is possible still to ask
King Louis' question with regsrd to
the majority of the Inhabitants of the
earth. Literacy has spread slowly.
Rut sign# multiply that within the
live# of persons now living th# greater
part of th# human race will be found
in the literate group.
Te mejorlty of the Inhabitants In
countries containing among them at
least two third* of th# population of
th«*'world cannot read a word. India
and China alone contain half a billion
Illiterates. Russia has aijproxlmately
another hundred million. Fully a hun
died million In Africa cannot read,
and In Latin America i>nssfhly fifty
million. Th# people of th# Last In
die* and of Asia oul*ld# India and
china number msny million* of non
readers. ’I he total of Illiterates for
all these lands approximates nine hun
dred million, to which must be added
the considerable illiterate minority
of the T'nlted Slates and Furope.
The international Commission on
the Removal of Illiteracy has plants
of work cut out for tt. Vet there are
prospects that a vast change 1n th*
educational map of the world may
occur. In 1911 in India only ahout *
per cant of th# inhabitants wera reck
oned as able to read. Fight yeers
later the acnols of India had over
7,50n,ftno pupils, rinn* looking to In
dian self-government depend for their
eventual success ao grentlv nn the
spread of education as to offer a pmv
erftil Incentive to the work of the
schools.
Mexico 1ms emerged from revolu
tions with a government reiving on
the support of the peon • his*, and has
sought to strengthen that class by
educating tt. -Mexico has a rompul
sory education law, end, what is more,
set apart for educational purposes
more than one-seventh of the total of
the budget for 19211. Home 1,000 per
sons volunteered their service# us
(richer# when the new educational
policy slm-ted In function In 1921. Po
lltlcai cli.ini # In Mexico has removed
Hie class that kept Itself In |x>wer by
withholding knowledge from the hulk
of the nation, find lias Installed -t
group that relies on the training of
the popular tlloh I sliilidlng.
A similar reversal of the mol Ives
of tho ruling cl.-tss hr occurred In
Turkey, where a mnnnrehy lin* given
way to a government relying on pm
Hnmoiilnrv form# and Ihe support ol
the Intelligent Ottoman population.
Several dark corner# of Fniope have
felt a like Mtirring. iMjieiltJeliciei Sui li
a* Poland, Slovakia and Mosul#, where
formeily all#n domination found It
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either Impolitic or Impossible to carry
on popular education, have now come
under forms of self-rule that offer a
strong Inducement to the governments
to educate their supportere. It Is no
accident that Poland started at the
earliest moment on a campaign of
general schooling, and for l!>-2 re
porter! 8,000,000, a number equal to
one-tenth of Its population, as attend
ing the elementary schools.
If the great war had ended In a
victory for military monarchies ruled
from above, there would no doubt
have been quite other results In the
educational Held than those observed
today. At present governments seek
to build tip their foundations by re
ducing their Illiterates, wherever po
litical unity and financial means per
mit. A continuation of the educa
tional movement now In progress
would In the nest 50 years turn the
minority now able to read and write
Into a majority of the world's popu
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Beloved, we turn to the hook of Nehemiah this morning
for our . text, taking the fourth and fifth verses of the first
chapter, as follows;
"Then the king sahl unto me, For what dost thou
/ make request? So I pra,\ed unto the God of heaven.
And 1 said unto the kins, if it please the king, and if
thy servant have found favor in thy sight, that thou
uoiddst send ine unto Judah, unto live city of my fath
ers’ sepulchers, that I may build it.’’
And now let us. for a moment, consider who this man,
Nehemiah, was.
Nehemiah was a Jew. Ills people were under the domina
tion of the Persians and Artaxerxos was king. He was a man
of high position in the household of the king. None mood
higher, for Nehemiah was a cupbearer to the king. In modern
parlance he was the king's private secretary. He had wealth,
power and position. His lines were cast In pleasant places.
This rich and Influential young Jew had things coming his way.
But was Nehemiah satisfied with a life of eu.-e and in
dolence and power? He was not. His thoughts turned to
Jerusalem, the cltv of his fathers. He mourned at its de
cadence, and he yearned for its restoration. Hut did Nehemiah
figure on "George doing It?” He did not. He yearned only to
be given opportunity to rebuild the walls and restore the ancient
glories. And so Nehemiah was willing to turn his back on
kingly favor, to give un a soft berth, to take up the hard task.
And so. when the king, gave him permission. Nehemiah went
forth, facine the hard task and willing to make the sacrifice.
Beloved, what the world needs today is more Nehemlahs—
men who will sacrifice self for the common good men who will
devote their lives to the cause of common humanity, forgetful
of self and thinking only of the good of all. Nehemiah did not
ask the Passing of a Law. He did not stand back and Point
the Way. He bravely led. He sacrificed position, and friends,
and wealth, and power, to,rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
Nor was he sidetracked by the specious flatteries of Pan
ballat and his emissaries. He did not force men bv legislative
enactment to go his way. He issued hls< Marion cal! to con
science and to soul, and men responded. Slowly but surely the
walls of Jerusalem were rebuilt under his leadership, and It
was the leadership that called to the hearts and minds of mm.
Brethren, the world Is sadly In need of Nehemlahs. Men
who will turn in scorn from attempts to legislate morality into
men, and will make appeal to conscience. It needs men to fare
forth, forgetful of seif, to rebuild the walls of the American
home: to arouse men and women to a sense of Individual re
sponsibility; to convict men of sin and point the way to right
eousness. What the world needs is doers. Nehemiah did not
ask for laws: he asked for workers He did not try to coerce
men Into doing their duty; he set them an example. And his ,
workers tolled with a trowel In one hand and a sword In the
other.
Men and brethren, let us follow the example of this young
man of Israel. Let us devote some time to the common good.
Let us work earnestly to convince men of their duty, instead
of trying to force men to do their duty. Let us build faith, and
love and hope.
Standing, let us sing that good old song, "Work, for the
Night Is Coming.” and, singing, let us resolve to go forth and
do, not say; work, not merely advise, and show by precept and
example *he glory of working for the upbuilding of the Mas
ter's kingdom. WILL M. MAUPIN.
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