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Mexico IH progressing nl the rate
of several revolutions a minute.
The coat of living lnereasen. I'iuk
oarnntlonn and gasoline are higher.
With the suffiagottes at large , glass
houses will never bo popular In Lon
don.
Lnrltnor voted against the peace
Ireatles. Hasn't liu hyd trouble
enough ?
With the arrival of the Easier sea-
on mitny women will throw their
winter hats Into the ring.
The recall of speeches made In
other campaigns is seriously opposed
by many of the candidates.
The garden Heeds that are behiK
received from your conKreBsman are
n sign that both spring and Novem
ber are coming.
Mount Holyoke college Is bragging
"because none of Its graduates were
over divorced , but If so wo fear that
f w of them got Into society.
This business of merging different
professions IB being run Into the
ground. A woman physician in New
York has Just married n prominent un
dertaker.
An exchange advises people to keep
cool and not get excited over the
coal strike. If the strike comes off ,
there will be no trouble about keep
ing cool.
As the Maine Is safe in Its long
home in the Gulf of Mexico , our in
telligent relic hunters will have to be
satisfied with blood stained chips
from railroad accidents.
The government says the sugar
trust violated the Tenth command
ment , but in the lack of a jail penalty
the ten commandments do not seem
to command popular respect.
Aunt Delia says she will be send
ing pies to the white house a year
from now. There is one thing about
it they will any of them take Aunt
Delia's pies and bo mighty glad to
get them.
The "noun1 dawg" song joke was
good when it started , but .at the pres
ent time we advise brother para-
graphers to prefer such comparative
ly fresh subjects as the plumber and
the Iceman.
The foreign trade of the United
States in 1911 totaled $3,740,825,000.
The exports were $2,144,020,000 , an
increase of $28.7JIO,000 : ! while the im
ports were $41,596,805,000 , a decrease
of $31,220.000
That old Japanese war scare has
been repainted and labeled Germany.
It has been worn threadbare but still
does service in the noble endeavor
of interested patriots to secure a
largo naval appropriation.
There were 148 murders committed
in Now York City last year and one
murderer was executed. It becomes
more and more evident that what is
needed In this country is not more
Jaws but more law-enforcement.
It is altogether too early in the
game to decide who is to Be the next
president of the United States. De
spite all that is said to the contrary ,
AVilllam Howard Taft stands a bet
ter chance to be nominated and elect
ed than any other man , at present.
The New York World asks impert
inently who is paying the bills for
the campaigns of Mpssrs. Roosevelt ,
Taft , Clark , Harmon , and Wilson , but
most patriots' are -more anxious to
learn how and where thQ money is
being disbursed.
The humor of the jew that Mr.
Bryan refers to as going on in the
republican camp , is only equaled by
the humor that is gained from rend
ing the accounts of the row that is
going on in the democratic camp to
which Mr. Bryan doesn't refer.
The presidential candidate who
carries with him the growing confi
dence of the' people because it Is ap
parent that he cares more for prin
ciples than he does for popularity is
the one out of the whole number to
be most envied and that whether he
succeeds or not. . , . .
It s'ecms to be the idea of the
United States senate and the contrl
buting editor of the Outlook that an
arbitration treaty wlh ( every cause
for arbitration eliminated Is the pro
per thing. This country certainly
has some new-fangled or bandjy-
tangled statesmanship.
Another epoch in the world's his
tory has been made by the practical
UBO of an aeroplane inwarfare. .
Italians dropping bombs from an aero-
piano killed ton Arabs , thus .estab
lishing a new kind of warfare. . The
fact that rifles failed to strike the
aoroplalno Is an Interesting sidelight.
All America will regret , with Presi
dent Taft , the loss from the pure
food department of the Rovernmi'iit
of the services of Dr.Vlloy. . He
lias been the greatest force for pun-
food ami for protection of the public
against poisons and adulterations In
drugs and foods , it Is gratifying to
know that he intends in continue de
voting his energies to the public ser
vice.
Of the men who aspire to bo presi
dent for the four years beginning on
March 4th , 1913 , .ludson Harmon Is
07 next March , Speaker Clark Is fiS
and so Is Senator Cummins. Presi
dent Taft is no , Mr. Underwood 51 ,
Theodore Roosevelt 54 and Wood row
Wilson 57. The man who was oldest
when he took the oath of office as
president was William Henry Harri
son while the youngest man was Col.
Roosevelt who was 42.
The New York Tribune speaking
of the demand of Col. Roosevelt and
the progressives for the recall of
Judges and decisions says : "If the
people do not fill the bench with men
whoso decisions wil show a sympa
thetic understanding of new social
and Industrial conditions , it will bo
the people's own fault. The Idea that
the courts cannot be made sufficient
ly progressive without weakening the
restraints of the constitution Is born
of Impatience and haste. "
President Taft. in his speech at
Boston Monday afternoon , pointed out
the tremendous injury to good govern
ment that results when influential
men wantonly and indiscriminately
use intemperate language in assailing
our courts of justic'e. And the assas
sination of court officials in Virginia ,
together with the sending of a bomb
to a New York judge , would indicate
that the president is right. Promi
nent men can do a great deal of harm
to society by intemperate language of
any kind. Calmness and dignity , after
all , are traits worthy of cultivation.
Secretary Nagel , speaking in de
fense of the administration of Picsl-
dent Taft , recently at Indianapolis
said , "Perhaps never in the history
of the republican party have so many
distinct pledges of a platform been
redeemed within one administration. "
It would be well for the ultra critics
and flamboyant progressives to actu
ally study the record of the achieve
ments of President Taft before they
go any further. It s a record which ,
looked at in the light of reason , any
president might well bo proud of , and
which in the light of history will
stand out brightly.
SENATOR NORRIS BROWN.
Norris Brown has served Nebraska
efficiently , conscientiously and zeal
ously in the United States Senate ,
and he should be re-elected. The ex-
perlence he has gained during the
first term makes him that much more
valuable for a second term.
Senator Brown has been a credit
to his state and he has become a lead
er In the upper house of congress.
Ho was one of the principal support
ers of the peace treaties and has In
other ways won distinction by his
fearless work.
Norris Brown is a good man for
Nebraska to retain in the public ser
vice.
LINCOLN'S OPINION.
Abraham Lincoln , in a speech at
the Young Men's Lyceum , Spring
field , 111. , once said :
"It thirsts and burns for distinc
tion ; and , if possible , it will have it.
Is it unreasonable , then , to expect
that some men , possessed of the loft
iest genius , coupled with ambition
sufficient to push it to the utmost
stretch , will at some time spring up
among us ? And when such a one
does , it will require the people to be
united with each othpr , attached to
the government and laws , and gener
ally intelligent , to successfully frus
trate his design.
"Distinction will be his paramount
object , and although he would as will
ingly acquire it by doing good as
harm , yet nothing left in the way of
building up , he would sit down bold
ly to the task of pulling down. Here
then Is a probable case , highly dan
gerous. "
The brutal killing of one of the
ablest and best judges in the com
monwealth of Virginia by a mob of
mountaineers who were mad because
he sentenced one of their number tea
a year of hard labor for aiding a pris
oner to escape , and the subsequent
death of the county attorney and
sheriff at the hands of the same mob ,
calls the attention of the entire coun
try to the horrors of outlawry. While
this Is an exceptional case it is but
timely to protest against the alto
gether too prevalent attitude of re
volt against the Judiciary , whenever
It gives a decision that is against the
popular will. If the Judges are to
be in fear of recall either from bul
lets or ballots whenever they go
against the will of the majority in
any given community , state or nation ,
regardless of their conviction or
knowledge of what is right according
to the law and evidence , the end of
our civilization is in sight. S"uah an
Idea of democracy inevitably leads to
social anarchy and that In turn to
the most readily aceptod despotism.
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TAFT FAVORS PRIMARY
President Taft has done the act
of a big man in his reply to Reese
velt's "challenge" for a presidential
preferential primary. In spite of the
fact that the federal patronage , which '
Roosevelt had used before him , were '
his if he chose to use them in re- j
nominating himself , thus clinching the
nomination , President Taft has met I
the "challenge" in a way that will
take the Roosevelt campaign mana
gers off their feet. Ho has come out
In favor of such primaries. Ho oaks
that they be properly safeguarded ,
keeping democrats from voting at
republican primaries. And he would
welcome them , under such restrictions ,
he says.
A good deal of whining has been
done by Col. Roosevelt and his mana
gers over his mibject. "Wo could
win If the people had a say , " has been
the plaint. And now President Taft
has answered. He welcomes such a
test of strength.
It is an act that shows not only
true progresslvenesa but likewise a
broad gauge of man. Even in states
where federal patronage might have
assured him the delegations , the presi
dent is willing to surrender any ad
vantage due to his position , and to
take the primary result.
NEBRASKA'S TRAGEDY
One of the moat dramatic tragedies
In Nebraska's history was closed Mon
day afternoon when the three convicts
who had exploded and murdered their
way to liberty from the state peni
tentiary , were run down by officers.
And one of the saddest features of
the whole incident , which cost the
lives of six men , was the killing of
Farmer Roy Blunt by a stray bullet
from the officers' posse.
Blunt was caught in a death trap
by an unkind fate. It chanced to be
him whom the convicts compelled to
hitch up a sleigh and drive them over
the roads. And when the posse came ,
there was no chance of escape. He
faced death either at the hands of
the desperadoes or at the hands of
the officers.
The state of Nebraska is respon
sible for Blunt's death and to his
family should make reparation , BO far
as it is possible to make reparation
with money.
The prison outbreak Is said to have
been the result of a feeling of unrest
that has been growing at the peni
tentiary. It is very apparent to the
people of this state that something
was radically wrong when guns and
nitro-glycerlne could be smuggled to
prisoners. As the man responsible
for state institutions , Gov. Aldrich
must , in the last analysis , answer
for the tragedy , and an accurate ex-
'planation ' of all circumstances will be
eagerly awaited throughout the state.
KILLING OF ARBITRATION.
It is generally understood that the
arbitration treaties were completely
kiled in the United States senate by
the republican opposition combined
with the democratic antagonists and
that this combination obtained its in
spiration and guidance direct from
Oyster Bay.
It certainly is a humiliation and dis
couragement not alone to the patriot
that loves America and desires it to
take its place as the leader in the
world's peace but to the lover of
mankind , wherever he may abide , to
realize that there is a man of tre-
menodus personality and great in
fluence , who Is willing to go on rec
ord as the opponent of the better day
which is coming when arbitration
shall be the rule and war the excep
tion among the nations of the earth.
It is Incomprehensible to the
thoughtful , self-poised man accustom
ed to do his own thinking , that such
a man should so dominate the mind
of a large portion of the people of
America as to be able to sacrifice the
peace of the world to his personal
ambition.
So'oner or later the sober second
thought of this great nation will re
assert itself and speak out in unmis
takable ringing tones of rebuke
against the war spirit needlessly
aroused and the man who provokes
such a mental attitude among the
unthinking.
Wo believe that time is near at
hand. But bo that as it may the
philosopher patriot and well wisher of
mankind can look forward with se
rene and certain confidence to the
verdict of history , assured that it will
crown with laurel the great president
who did everything In his power to
further the love of peace throughout
the world and that it will wholly dis
approve the narrow horizon of the
man whoso strenuoslty is consumed
in arousing unrest and stimulating
the animosities , which result in en
kindling tha fury of the nations and
the brutal sad taking off of thou
sands of precious lives in cense
quence.
PERSONALITY OR PRINCIPLE ?
Is Col. Roosevelt seeking a third
term upon his own personality or
is ho seeking It upon economic issues ?
In his own personal ambition for the
power of office nt stake , or is this
government facing some great crisis
which only one man out of UO.000,000
can tide us over ? Tliero must bo a
distinction between those two theor
ies of his candidacy. One or the oth
er of those motives personal ambi
tion for the sake of selfish power , or
his belief that the welfare of the
nation demands It bus Induced the
colonel to violate an honored nation
al tradition he called It a "wise cus
tom which limits the presidency to
two terms" and a solemn personal
\ow.
If It is upon Col. Rooso\oil's per-
Konallty that his friends sock to In
duce the American'peopre ' to break
the third term precedent , then the
campaign must be , one of hero-worship
and no hero-worship is substantial
cnougl | to win an election.
If It is not personality , then wo
must accept the colonel's candidacy
as an evidence of bin belief that Presi
dent Taft Is iinon.mil to the require
ments of his office and that he , him
self , is the only man in the United
States capable of running this gov
ernment. The colonel has told us it
is not personal ambition that prompts
him to seek a third term that per
sonally he would prefer to stay out
of the fight. The only other Itorna-
tlve , then , Is the theory that he is
convinced he alone aihong ninety mil
lions of men , is capable of handling
the reins of this republic.
The colonel has lately professed
great faith in "tho people. " Ho
would even change the constitution
so that "the people" could reverse
judicial decisions when decisions did
n't please a majority. But docs he
really , down in his heart , have Mich
overwhelming faith in the people if
ho believes that the people are un
able to find among their millions , one
citizen aside from himself who can
be trusted with the liberties and the
rights of the public ? Has he really
such faith IP the people when he
deems it necessary to violate the
people's time honored custom against
giving the presidency more than
twice to any man a "wise custom"
at that , ho has told us and to violate
late his own sincere pledge , born of
conscientious impulse , in order that
the people may be saved against
choosing any one of their other 90-
000,000 men as their executive head
for four years ? If the people can be
trusted with making laws and revers
ing judicial decisions , citn't the people
be trusted to select an honest presi
dent from their ranks without draft
ing a man who has already had that
office as long as he considers It wise
for any man to hold it ?
If the republican party is not en
titled to endorsement at the hands
of the American people for what it
has done during the past four years ,
and if the republican party has reach
ed the point where it has only one
individual who is worthy of leader
ship , then the republican party is not
entitled to the confidence of the people
ple and is not entitled to endorse
ment by victory in November , no mat
ter who its leader.
And if America has arrived at the
point where there is such a short
age of honest , efficient statesmen that
It is necessary to draft an ex-presi
dent , "against his will" against an
honored national tradition and against
that ex-president's own personal vow
that he would not be a candidate
again. If this country is that lacking
in reliable public leaders , then party
principles count for naught and our
political system has degenerated into
merely a system of individual leaders
with personal followings , rpgardless of
principles at stake.
If it is not the case of merely
personal following , or hero-worship ,
but a matter of political principles
that the campaign Is to be waged
upon , then there is every reason why
the republican party should stand by
the Taft administration and there is
no reason why the republican party
should confess weakness by forcing
its former leader , who says he has
no desire for further office or further
honor at the party's hands , back into
the harness. For when it comes to
principles involved , the only great dif
ferences between the platforms of
Roosevelt and Taft , at present , are
upon international peace and uport the
recall of judicial decisions neither
one of them presenting any vital crisis
whose solution demands extraordinary
procedure , and in both of which
President Taft seems to have the bet
ter of the argument.
As Senator Bevcridge said , Col.
Roosevelt did many good things as
president. It Roosevelt is only a per
sonality , then glory be his for his
achievements. If ho was carrying out
merely the republican platform pled
ges , and with the aid of a republican
congress , then let us even In our ex
citement pause to give some credit
for the Roosevelt administration to
the republican party which stood sponsor
ser for It.
But just because Roosevelt's ad
ministration was efficient , scarcely
Justifies getting excited and resorting
to procedure that ho himself has told
us IB unwise.
It is well enough for Senator Dover-
idge to minimize the importance of
Col. Roosevelt's "reversal of judiciary
decision" doctrine , declaring that It
is a good thing to talk over such
matters whether they're worthy or
not ; it is well for the colonel's per
sonal following at all times to minim
ize this rash break that the colonel
made , in his eagerness to seek an
IBBUO with the present administration.
For the American people are not with
him In that Issue and arc not willing
to throw their hats Into the ring to
battle with him for It.
It Is likewise well enough for Sena
tor Hoverldgo to pass lightly over Col.
Roosevelt's attitude on tariff revision.
He attempts to Excuse the colonel's
Inactivity along this line , during his
seven years In the white house , on the
ground that It was not a republican
platform pledge and the demand for
it was not pressing. Aa n matter
of fact the demand was pressing long
before Col. Roosevelt left the White
house - so pressing was the demand
that a > ear before ho retired , Secre
tary of War , Taft , made a vigoroim
speech at Bath , Me. , voicing the need
of downward revision. And for some
years there has been a public demand
for such action. And Col. Roosevelt
lias endorsed _ the tariff commission
which Taft is Just now getting under
way.
way.Tho
The trust issue the only other real
issue at present , besides the tariff is
still as much an unsolved problem
as it was ten years ago. And while
Col. Roosevelt is an Ingenious and
resourceful man , he could hardly ex
pect to be elected now to solve the
trust question when he failed to solve
it during his'seven years in the white
house. President Taft has been en
forcing the Sherman law vigorously
and that's all that any president
could do until some man conies along
with a better solution than has yet
been offered by any person citizen
or candidate.
AROUND TOWN.
A Norfolk man says this is a SURE
sign of spring ; liquor dealers are out
with their petitions.
Hero's another : A blue Jay was
singing in the trees on North Seventh
street yesterday morning.
Here's another : The corner of Nor
folk avenue and Seventh street was
knee deep with water , where you want
to go across.
Scarlet fever and convicts break
out as easily as ever , but they're nip
ped -quicker.
Speaking of breaking out , we'd like
to tackle just one more batch of
buckwheat cakes before Old Man
Winter takes his departure.
And here's a tip to Old Man Win
ter , when he does get ready to go :
He'd better wear his storm boots.
There's this consolation , though ,
about this between-season business :
Until the golf season starts , the bil
liard season will remain open. There
can't be a complete lockout.
The German band at Niobrara ,
which headed a St. Patrick's day par
ade carrying Irish flags , knew how
to make the most of the situation , to
say the least.
Morley has learned that a man born
to be hung will never be killed in
pitched battle.
"Shorty" Gray has learned the les
son that chickens come home to roost.
The trouble Is , he's learned It too late
in life.
Speaking of chickens , how's your
incubator ?
How soon will next winter stait ?
Keep on shoveling both coal and
snow.
With the attempted assassination
of King Victor Emmanuel , the as
sassination of three Virginia court
officials and the assassination of
three Nebraska prison officials , Thurs
day was one of the bloodiest days in
many months.
Here comes one day in the year
when that red necktie will have to
give way to a green one.
Incidentally , St. Patrick Isn't the
only fellow who will celebrate a birth
day Sunday. We know of one just a
year old , who will have a merry little
time on his own exclusive hook.
We can't help wondering , at this
season of the year , whether we're
going to get any circuses this sum
mer or not.
If you see Shorty Gray , tell him to
throw up his hands.
One more cold wave lost In the
shuffle. And we refuse to put a "lost
ad" in The News for it. News "lost"
ads are too effective to run the risk.
Why Is it a man always feels so
groggy on Monday morning ? Is it
because he oversmokes and overeats
and overloafs and oversleeps and
overreads on Sunday ?
With the present price of hay , it
Isn't surprising that two bales stolen
at Bristo'v caused a good deal of ex-
citement. A man's life is in danger
If he has any hay around him , these
days.
The "Seeing Robins" club ought to
gain In membership this week.
Hero's hoping , though , that the
spring tra la won't . .burst- upon us all
In a heap. There's too much snow at
large to make anything like that do-
Birable. We don't want , wiy floods.
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Speaking of floods , it's a.good time
to take a look at the dike.
They do say there'sa duck flying
now and then ,
After all Jbis , moisture . the lnwn
ought not to lose much time this your
getting green ,
And If St. Patrick's day means any
thing , it's about time , while you're
speaking of it , that the lawn did turn
green.
From tlio Around Town Column In
The News March 19 , 19H2 : "Wo see
by the paper ( the 20-yoar-ago column )
that way back In 1912 the year throe
convicts broke out of Nebraska peni
tentiary by murdering their path
through officials they were even
then talking about u Yankton and
Norfolk railroad ; and that ton yearn
before that and twenty years before
that , they had been talking about a
n Norfolk-Yankton railroad. "
.lust out of curiosity , we'd like to
know who'll ho grinding out tin- -
Around Town column In 1932. It's
got to be ground out , even if we have
to Httck around to do it.
A Madison man writes This News ,
saying that he supposes nevrn IB
scarce owing to the snowdrifts. Yes ,
yes , news is scarce. Just take a look
at that front page during the past
few days and see If it isn't. "At
tempted assassination of Italy's king , "
"Throe Nebraska convicts assassin
ate three officials and escape ; " "Five
people assassinated in a Virginia
courtroom ; " "Infernal machine
sent to a New Yoik judge ; "
"North Nebraska man shot at a
dance ; " "Pat Stevens found guilty at
Fairfax ; " "Nebraska convicts engag
ed In battle , throe killed. " Yes , yes ,
this snow has made news scarce.
Why , even T. R. has been crowded
onto the market page.
ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS.
It is harder to quit gossiping than
to quit smoking.
If you are growing bettor , you
needn't worry so much about wheth
er the world is or not.
Summer comes pretty quick to the
man who invests in a new spring top
coat.
Some .folks seem to specialize on
winning consolation prizes.
A nervous person can hurry a good
deal without doing anything.
No president can do much for a
dead beat , and no president should.
In.your desire to give the devil his
due , don't give him everything else
you can get hold of.
You can't see the cards that are
stacked against you because they are
generally imaginary.
Eating isn't much fun after a man
begins to carry around several varie
ties of dyspepsia tablets.
If a man compliments you freely
don't be mean enough to suspect him
of wanting to sell you something.
There are so many nice young
men that a girl's Ideal can change
oftener than a government in Cen
tral America.
You can't shovel snow with a ham
mer.
Fiction romances end happily be
cause they end so soon.
Keep trying and you will eventual
ly do something creditable.
Some lonfers like to get up early
c they can put in a full day.
No news from home isn't good news
to a boy who writes home for money.
t
If you can talk a man into it , lie
wasn't out very far when you began.
A rebate doesn't speed toward
home as swiftly as the Prodigal son
did.
All politics Is machine made , al
though some may be better than
others.
A canary bird eats less than a par
rot , if you want an argument for the
defense.
Every man should live so he won't
be blackballed when he wants to join
a lodge.
Bounty on wolf scalps is never high
enough to make a pack of hounds
pay dividends.
Plowing isn't so much fun for the
plowman as It is for the poets and
blackbirds.
Then there are men who spend
nothing much on bad habits who also
fail to get rich.
You are so smart : Why are they
called loving cups ?
Sometimes a man abuses the help
and calls it executive ability.
Disagreeable orders aren't the ones
most likely to be countermanded.
Everyone can get a cordial wel
come In a saloon if ho'll pay for It.
Some men are never-sonorous ex
cept when they can give to the bar-
keep.
A Lenten sacrifice doesn't amount
to much If one tries to make up for
it later.
As a rule , the man who likes to
tell how much money he spent , didn't
spend it.
You know many good- things about
people that you should enjoy telling "
thorn more than the evil you may
hear.
SATURDAY ;
GOD IS !
TB t , "Oofl Is spirit. " John iv ,
"Ood Is lov-l Jolm Iv , 8.
Mnn la u big interrogation point. Ho
questions everything , even God. Ani
mals do not. The horse nncl the dog
never ask "Whence came I ? " "Whith
er am I going ? " "Who Is God ? "
"Where is hcV" They go mutely an
with unquestioning eyes. Wo poor Int *
rocks , hut he IH not there. Wo guzo
toward the stare. He IH not there. Tin ;
limitations of knowledge bind us.The
A , U , C of earthly alphabet is Imrd
learned. Wo talk learnedly about con
ditions and theories , relations and
uodlQcatlous , conjectural hypotheses ,
fundamental propositions , phllimophlenl
principles and , inetapbyslcnl i > oculn-
tions , but what do they mean ? Wliwi
we nro done we huve simply boon Jug
Kllng with words. The brain throbs
In weariness , the body sinks In ex
haustion , wo noon drop Into life's lust
sleep. When we say , Who Is God ?
Let me sec him , it Is the Unite calling
on the infinite. The temporal measuring
ing with the eternal. The shudoiv
groping toward the substance.
God It Spirit.
Not Hn" spirit , not one of many , not
one of n class , but by himself. He Is
spirit ! And when you leave out "a"
you enlarge your Idea of God. "They
that worship him must worship him In
spirit" that hi , you cannot worship by
Rimpl/ kneeling or singing or beating
on a tomtom ; not even repeating words
Is worship. You may piny an instru
ment without being a musician. Sena-
cu was n moralist without being moral.
A candle is but a stick of tallow until
It la lit. God Is spirit. No man eiiti
worship spirit until he uses his splr
itual aoiibf. But evidence is every
where. "How do you know there's n
God ? " abks scoffer of Arab guide.
"How do I know 11 camel passed my
tent In the darkness'/ see his foot
prints in the sand. " Human soil It-
marked with divine footprints. See it V
in history a reformation , discovery
of a continent , revolution , abolition of
slaverv- _ have stood on shore of far
off Puclllc Island and picked up strung * '
shell , rare in color , marvelous in for
inntion , and said , A creator has been
here. It Is not bo time \ a question , U
God knowabloV ns , Do rou have faith
sense to know ? As n rule , ilsli have
eyes and sco light. Should ocean tlsh
debate with blind fish of Mammoth
cave ns to existence of light ? As a
rule men sen and boar , but some lire
blind , others are ilonf. Why argue
with a man who denies color or sound.
You give a quick look of pity. The
poor fellow is deaf or blind !
Not Lo Here Nor Lo Th re.
We seem determined to know God , a
spirit , through the sense * . We must }
We will know ! The greatest glory of
jaan ) must always be his ability to dis
cover the unknown , to comprehend the
uncomprohondcd. To be frozen In ice
berg , wrecked on strange shores , burn
ed in volcanoes , pale In study , sutl'o-
cnte In laboratory is nothing to man
if he can find the unknown. Wo an-
half frightened , however , if some sci
entist writes magazine articles saying
ho has taken geologist's hammer , ns-
tronomur's telescope , biologist's mien ,
scope , physicist's test tube and ha *
found no God at least if there is one
he could not see him. Sure ! And
blind man might return from art
gallery Baying he had gone over it
world reputed canvas with his thumb
end and , to the best of his knowledge ,
there was no picture Micro. Trying to
comprehend through the wrong soii'-e !
God meets humanity on a plane of hu
man Intelliueiif-o. If I wanted to re
veal myself to colony of ants I would
have to do it on plane of nut intelli
gence ( which is considerable ) . Christ
is God revealed on man's plane. No ,
God cannot reveal himself fully. Pelf
repression is part of key of revelation
of higher to lower. I use smoked
glass to look at sun. It admits
so much of li ht ns my optic nerve
can endure. Christ is the transfigured
flesh through which we see the tender
ness and love of God , forGed
God Is Love.
Only two definitions of God given ,
"God Is spirit , " "God is love. " Hut
how shall I explain the love of God in
type ns I would 2 + 2 = 4 ? 1 won't at
tempt to. A woman wouldn't argue
her affection for her lover. No writer ,
no poet , ever gets more than a relief-
tlon of her love in his lines. Theology
comes nearer than geology or astrono
my , for we are moye nearly akin to
Ihe Almighty than to rocks or stars.
Ills breath Is In us. He whispers us
secrets like n lover. He hides from
learned and reveals to babes. A cob
bler at his bench may know more than
professor nt seminary. Each gets bis
own concept of God. God approaches
him on his own level. To one God is
nil mind , n great intellect ; to another
law , grinding , ceaseless law. Read
the meaning of ruins by the Nile rum-
bllng Parthenon in Greece , dust of
Nineveh and Babylon , pathetic with
prayers of haughty and proud peoples :
The great world's altar steps
That slope through darkness up to God
were covered with prayer dust of
mighty nations , groping , clutching
blindly nt God's skirts , each with it *
own concept. "But it was a soap bub
ble , n dream. " But bubbles burnt ,
dreams vanish. They do not abide
through the ngcs. To uu God is heart ,
God in love.
And the love of God Is broader
Than Ihe measure of man's mind.
And thn heart of the Eternal
In mom wonderfully kind.
The housewife who hna never mode
nd-rondlng a part of her routine of
"home-mrtnagement" is the one who
finds It Increasingly difficult to meet
expenses In this era of high prices.
