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6 THE MUNCIE SUNDAY STAR, MAY 17, 1925. power was latent in his universe; A SOCIETY OF SPIRITUAL VAGABONDS. much of which we are fain to WHO'S WHO IN THE DAY'S NEWS. Timely Views on World. Topics THE STAR'S SUNDAY SERMON PARENTS AND CHILDREN By Ernest Fremont Tittle The Muncie Star STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY The Moiteit News Founded 1171.

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.110 fusal to pay any attention to the advice of parents, for from revealing a philosopher, may reveal a fool. And would not a little humility be becoming even to parents, especially In view of the tragic happenings of theee recent years? "Bring up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart But who knows the way a child should go? What is the exact road which the "younger should, travel at this particular Juncture of the world's affairs? We can, ir we Degm eerty enougn, bring up our children in the way we think they should go. We can In many, perhaps not most, cases persuade them to accept our views and to adopt our attitudes. And if our views are true views and our attitudes right attitudes, well and good. But what if the views which we urge upon our children are not true views? What if the attitudes which we press upon them are not right attitudes? Will we not, in that case, merely perpetuate the mistakes of the past, and hand on to future generations our own heritage of pain? There Is much In clvlliiation today that is good.

There Is much also that Is exceedingly bad. Our problem Is, how ta hand on to our children that which is good and, at the same time, not to force upon them that which is bad. What a terrible mistake It would be if we should say to our children, "You must not, under any circumstances, call in question the political, or economic, or moral, or religious views of your parents." Those of us who eome under the category of "parents" are obliged to confess that our generation made a pretty rotten mess of things. We did not, to be sure, will the war. But as even Mr.

Lloyd George has acknowledged, we all blundered into it. We consented to conditions out of which it as inevitably came as mosquitoes from an undrained swamp. And now, surely- a little decent humility would be becoming to us. If the younger generation, which Is now "banging at the door." can discover any better way of believing and behaving than we have found, God forbid that we should try to hinder them! A distinguished Englishman once declared, "If I thought of the past with contempt, I would think of the future with despair." And Wouldn't you? If you really believed that your parents were fools, what reason would you have to suppose that you yourself would turn out to be a genius? And if you really believed that during all the generations past men had learned nothing about life that was worth Knowing, what reason would you have to suppose that during the lifetime of your generation, or even of the generations that will follow yours, any momentous discovery is likely to be made? It Is precisely because you cannot think of the past with contempt that you can think of the future with hope. Those of you who have seen or read the play called Chanticleer may recall that the Cock of the Walk, In that engaging performance, feels enormously elated by I tne tnougnt mat tne sun rises, not only when he crows, but because he crows.

I have sometimes thought that I detected, in certain young persons of my acquaintance, a similar elation. They have appeared to believe that they were not merely the recipients of modern civilization but the cause of It. They had, to be sure, omy the haziest of notions as to what lies back of the telephone, and the motor car. and the aeroplane, and the radio, and the parcel post, and clean streets, and porcelain bathtubs, and a college education, and the marvelous freedom which modern young flappers and beardless philosophers enjoy. But they appeared to believe that there was must be a causal connection between all of these achievements and their own exceedingly delightful selves.

1 feel very sure, however, that a little thought would serve to remind them that although these things have come to pass shortly before or during their own lifetime, they have hardly come to pass as the result of anything which they themselves have done; that they are, as yet, merely the inheritors. not the creators, of civilization; and. therefore, that a little humility would be, in them, entirely becoming. Frorrt the beginning of history, I suppose, each generation has thought Itself wiser than the generation which preceded it. And nut altogether without reason.

Certainly, It ought to be true that children are. In some respects, better informed than their parents. For, in the evolution of the race, each new generation is comparable to each year In the life of an individual, and if any Individual ought to be better informed at 40 than he was at 30, the race, as it appears in any present generation, ought to be better informed than It was in the preceding generation. But the fact remains that life has revealed some things to men and women 40 years of age and upwards which it could not reveal to boya and girls of 16 to 20. It has taught some lessons to parents which it could not teach to children.

The pathetic cry of many a parent, VI see my children making mistakes which I could help them avoid, if only they would listen to me!" is by no means without justification. The externals of life are continually changing. How extremely funny the fashions of 1900 appear to the eyes of 1925 as funny, I suspect, as the fashions of 1925 will appear to the eyes of 1950. When I was a boy, I turned around to look at an automobile. My son turns around to look at a buggy.

His son may turn around to look at a Ford; for in those days Fords may have wings Instead of wheels, the only resemblance between the new wonder and the old being the noise. The externals of life are continually changing. But life itself are not the greatest secrets Just the old, old secrets that were learned by many of our parents before we could walk, and even by a few of our grandparents before we were born? It follows, then, that the re MARGARET BRENT She Is Worth Your Devoutest Attention BY REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

"CHIME BECOMING BUSINESS WE NEED SEW SYSTEM TO HALT ITS GROWTH." America's failure at law enforcement has impressed European statesmen more than enything else about the country, according to Richard Washburn Child, former ambassador to Italy. Child, who classifies himself as a lawyer although he has served as a. writer, editor, lecturer and diplomat, -lieves lawlessness will become much worse before it is remedied. Remarking upon the difficulty attached to getting an est opinion on America from the European diplomats. Child said: "When you can get men oi really substantial opinion to take off the lid and say what they actually think about this country, they will say that we're f.rtat nt passing laws but utterly fail to enforce them.

"They don't mean merely the flaunting of the prohibition amendment, but our laws in general. Our murder record is particularly bad both because of the number of crimes committed and because of the few convictions obtained. Predict Greater Crime. "Lawlessness is going to become more and more aproblem in this country. I believe the situation will become much worse, than it is now before any lasting reform Is effected." jt Asked about remedies, he replied: "A remaking of our "yatem of punishing crime, which will act faster than the organization now going on in the crime world.

Crime Is becoming a business. More money is being invested in it all the time. One reads of fewer wars between gangs than two years ago. The reason for this is the large operators in crim are tantng the smaller ones into their organization to keep the little fellows from discrediting the business by nets of violence such as shootings." her brains, and but few possessed her audacity and energy. By methods that were pre-eminently clean and lady-like, and without compromising her womanly dignity, end purity, she rose to supreme place In the council of the state, and waa regularly consulted by the governor, Lord Calvert, in all of his undertakings.

In turn Margaret was courted by all of the unmarried members of the council, but remained "Mistress Margaret Brent" right through to the "end, being satisfied with the sovereignty of her own soul, the mastery of her own mind and purpose. When Lord Calvert was on his deathbed he sent for Margaret Brent and pointing to her so that all present might see and understand, said to her, "I make you my sole executrix. all and pay all." What a compliment was that, my countrymen! How many times can you duplicate It in your memory of history? How many men have been at any time honored with such a compliment? "Take all, and pay all." In obedience to the governor's solemn request Margaret moved into the governor's house. It was no sinecure, for the addition to her duties as governor, with the sanction of the council she became Lord Baltimore's attorney, in which position she had control of all the rents, profits, and Issues of his lordship's grants. If words and the dying words of a great and good man have any meaning, then Margaret Brent was governor of the colony of Maryland.

And so thought Margaret Brent herself. She said to them, "If I am governor I have as good a right as any one to a- voice end a seat In the General Assembly. Leonard Calvert in his life-time, as Lord Baltimore's attorney, had the right to vote, and now that Leonard Cal-ert is dead, and I have succeeded to the attorneyship, it is only fair that the right to vote should pass to me. the courage of her convictions, Margaret Brent, on January 21, 1648, at the first bea.t of the drum calling the assembly together, strode in and advanced her claim. "We had better- adjourn" cried out the big, burly man who had pushed himself Into the governor's chair.

And he meant-what he said. He was a politician. Margaret Brent had the right, but he had the steam-roller; and he crushed down all opposition. But Mistress Margaret's "fighting blood was now fairly up, and rising In her place in the assembly even before the steam-roller could get to going, she rnade her last, brave, eloquent plea for her most righteous cause; but no avail. As Bishop Butler said a long time ago, "If right was as strong as It Is Just it would rule the world; but often in the 'corrupted currents of this world, offences' glided hands oft shove by Justice.

It did so on that January morning, 16487 down In Maryland, but he laughs best who laughs last, and to Margaret Brent the gods gave the last laugh. The steam-roller crowd are all forgotten, not one of their wretched names Is ever remembered, but Margaret Brent held her ground until she made her eternal fame as the first woman who claimed the right to sit and to vote In a legislature hall on this continent. Brent" remained the greatest Intellectual and moral force in the colony. Without a vote she wielded more power than those who voted: and when the army rose In mutiny it was the gentle but powerful soul of Margaret Brent that greeted the rebels and saved the government. ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PVZZLE.

JaEI 'irtirnyrT tfrta. 'A urn long before he discovered the conditions under which it could be made available for his use. But it was no less really present be cause of his ignorance. From some obscure corner of the world a man might come today into the midst of our civilization. He might sit for hours in a dark room, eager to see, but un knowing that the touching of a button or the turning of a small key would flood it with radiance The light -is there for him when he obeys the conditions necessary to obtain it.

For untold centuries the waters of Niagara poured over their mighty precipice. Men regarded them with wonder and awe; but now men have found in them a source of power which turns the wheels of industry, moves, the transportation systems of great cities, illuminates streets and homes for millions of people. They have brought the power of Niagara into the lives of multi tudes, by obeying the conditions requisite to its utilization. Jesus believed and taught that there is. spiritual power in the universe.

He proved it by His life as surely as you can prove the existence of electrical power by pulling a switch, lifting the re ceiver from your telephone or turning the dial on your, radio set. Jesus met the conditions necessary to experience that power, and there followed cer tain effects at which men ever since have wondered with wor shipful love. That power is there for us, but faith must recognize the fact before experience realizes it faith must induce the obedience to conditions, the acceptance of the way of life which Jesus disclosed. Faith must begin the working out of its salvation, the abandonment of the old self-regarding attitude, relying on the assurance that God will work from within, that the mighty Niagara of spiritual power will become available, that we will know the presence of the Helper. A UNITARIAN CENTENARY.

The American Unitarian Asso ciation, which has been celebrating the centenary of its organiza tion in Boston, seems to have been having rather a cheerful and happy time. For that matter, its reports ordinarily, convey that impression. This may be because it is not disturbed by doctrinal differences, its creed being suf ficiently settled and at the same time elastic enough to adjust itself to the progress and develop ments of science and philosophy without friction. Naturally this tends to peacefulness, and this serenity perhaps accounts in part for the advanced age of some of its ministers. Of sixteen who died during the past year, it is an nounced that six lived to be above 90, two were 89, four others were past 70 and the youngest were 59 and 4 8.

In an address before the asso ciation the Rev. S. Parkes Cad-man, a Congregational minister and president of the Council of the Churches of Christ in America, gave high praise to the work of the Unitarian church, saying among other things: During this memorable hundred years the pulpit reached one of Its notable peaks of power and Influence; non-Christian nations were widely evangelized; constructive scholarship reinterpreted the Bible; the Oxford movement shattered Angelican insularity, and your own association was inaugurated "to diffuse the knowledge and promote the interests of pure Christianity." Such ostensible gains absolve our immediate past from the indictment of spiritual weakness and futility. The great and gifted men and women from whom we inherit carried forward salutary, ethical and religious movements which liberated and enlarged the behaving mind. They sweetened the atmosphere of ecclesiasticism, and deeply pondered the standing problems of faith to the advantage of all concerned.

Dr. Cadman also paid tribute to the services of Unitarian prophets, poets and thinkers in promoting the spiritual life. Another speaker urged upon the young that they give heed to the call to the ministry. In some mysterious way, he said, the psychic elements in individual persons are so incarnated as to bring a concentrated energy to bear upon certain avenues of self-expression. Men are "called unmistakably to art, to medicine, to law, to the fields of mechanics and of business and to innumerable other ways of service.

They are likewise called to the ministry and should obey the dictates of the silent guide. It is not stated that there Is a special shortage in the Unitarian church of young men seeking the ministry as their profession, but the complaint comes from other churches. Several causes may account for this scarcity of men studying for the ministry, but the fact that the average financial recompense is small doubtless has its influence. Doubtless commer- 1 A few weeks ago, attention was called in this column to a relig ious drama written by Don Mar quis of "Old Soak" fame, and dis closed that this humorist and realist had within him something of the soul of the Greeks who donned the comic mask to put the whims of the hour and were glad to doff it and be themselves when the mood of the public war ranted it. Before one can reach the "depths he must have within him something of the comic for relief, if his writings would live on; if need be, the order may be reversed without harm to the argument -the comedian must have a touch of Hamlet to be a perfect mime.

Under the early mask of Mark Twain hovered fhe spirit that found outlet in his later years. George Meredith wrote of the "tragic comedians" and was one of them himself. i nomas Hardy, In his younger years, mixed freely the comic with the tragic 'until his mysti cism became pronounced and tears were found flowing in the midst of laughter. To return for a sentence to Don Marquis: his name opens the door to the riddle of his personality, Thomas L. Masson, whose appeal had been from the fountain of mirth, has in him a deeply religious train of thought with the former mask removed.

For almost a generation he was an editor of "Life" in the days, those years of virility and satire mingled with mirth. A dozen volumes in a lighter vein, very light, sometimes have appeared from him. The book that was prepared with the "paint off" is termed "Why I Am a Spiritual Vaga bond." Reading it one might fail to understand the "Vagabond" part of it for the theology of the author is orthodox without los ing its originality. But there isa wider meaning to "Vagabond." On emlght say that John Bunyan was a "spiritual vagabond" and even Saul of Tarsus. The well- beloved Robert Louis Stevenson, in spite of the Man-with-the-Muckrake who has appeared recently, could be classed as a spiritual vagabond." An invitation is tendered to the reader of the book to join the Masson-created "Society of Spiritual Vagabonds;" and there is not a doubt that he will find himself in good company, a pleasant and joyous company withal.

A definition of the kind of vagabond he asks for Is given by Mr. Masson: We have been wandering around. here and there, under the stars, watching the sun rise, rubbing sticks together to make Are, eating when there was food, and going without when there was not, and exercising only enough to defend our bodies and keep them going. How careless we have been about our souls. They have done pretty much -as they pleased.

It has been only recently that we have got the idea that these respectable religious folks need us. we nave always been a little shy of regulars. We thought perhaps they had been building churches all these years, just to keep us out. We thought it shocked them to see how intimate we were with God. And the building material they have piled up! It's a scandal.

And all the time they were trying to save the world, each for himself. we want everybody in the world to join us, and put something over well, to be frank, for God, whom we have learned to love for Himself alone in the wide open spaces. We own up that we have been careless and rough and forgotten God. But now we are aroused, and we Just feel we must make good somenow. Somebody's got to.

The rest of 'em tried and failed. They had war, and Jazz, It is now us to us. This is not the vein the volume is written in, however; it is a prelude, purposely written In contrast to the rest of the work which Is', vehement and often evangelical. Here is the spirit of the major work: The pride of learning and the pride of earning are the two great obstacles that confront the seeker after truth. He is either patronized by scholars or bulldozed by experts.

As vagabonds without fixed dwell ing who search for God under the open sky or within the secret recesses of our own souls, we hereby renounce our further submission to these twin masters of illusion, learning and tradition. In sunshine and shadow, up hill and down dale. through fire and "water. we deal with God alone. The book is a revolt against tradition.

It takes resue with cial interests should not Interfere, but it is a commercial age and it li easy to see that its influence may affect even the spiritual call. Nevertheless, though youth seems to show in-J difference, the church continues. This Date in History May IT. 1872 Jeliet and party start an expedition to explore the Mississippi Valley. 1690 Casco, was captured by French and Indians.

1741--John Penn, lawyer and congressman, born. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. T743 Seth Warner, Revolutionary soldier, born. He captured Crown Point, N. In 1775.

There are thirty-two different thicknesses of one-Inch In current use. boast. We like to think of the immense sums given to the cause of higher education by rich men and women. Mr. Masson warns that our educational system, as It increases in splendor and luxury owing to these endowments, is a temptation and a snare.

The idle rich breed barrenness and para sites multiply. In certain strata of society "cosmetics cover an al most Inexhaustible lack of vir tue." Too many of the religious institutions in the country are the prey of glittering humbugs. Then what of the marvelous strides of science? Have they left impressions on the inner man? No question exists as to the ef feet of discovery and invention upon the outer man. The author is pessimistic still: "Have the marvelous inventions of science added anything to the tranquility of the human soul?" he asks and answers sorrowfully in the neg ative. The growing leisure com ing from inventiveness is oc cupied with trival and often de basing pursuits.

City slums flaunt their crime crop in the face of the most opulent country the world has seen. Gunmen and divorces flourish. Indecency and mediocrity iiave become standard ized. "The state breeds its il legitimate progeny of laws which turn and rend it," he writes "In the material world for thousands of years everything has been tried and every thing has failed. We ne.ed no more geniuses.

We have not yet caught up with those we have on hand." Let us away from the materialistic and the mechanistic and proud boastings of greatness and superiority: let us move Into a higher plane and the literary avi ator takes us there gently and peacefully. Into the Kantian realm he soars but not Into a maze of metaphysics as most per sons do when they write the name of the great German. The lat- ter's "Critique of Pure Reason caused the awakening. On read ing the opening pages Mr. Masson found himself in a new role, dazed, the impact of the truth made him powerless to read any thing else.

"When finally I awakened from my meditations, there were vast places burned in my soul," Mas son reveais. in tne charred remains I began my life all over again." Revealed to him by the Kant Intellect was the fact that what he believed to be unreal was the real and what he had been hug ging to his soul as real was.dross Above all he learned like many another that there is no quick-fire way to salvation and he must work it out for himself. Jesus by example and percept showed him the way. In discussing the World War situation as it affects the world- soul Mr. Masson has original ideas worthy of thought now that we can think, freed from prej udices: "And so now we begin to see, lust as in the beginning we saw that the tfcing we called war was In reality peaee now we begin to see that the war we must ultimately win was a war not against Germany, but against ourselves.

If this Is not so. then we are now uncon sciously preparing ourselves for another war. Consider! Germany is an illusion of the human mind. There is no Germany, as we have come to hear it said there was. There were only our own weak nesses.

We have but to confront these weaknesses for a moment to understand that, if they had not been present, there would have been no war and no in the sense that we have come to be lieve Germany is today. And by 'we' I mean, of course the allies; for I do not believe that any real American who has thought and felt the war- from the beginning could have had any other idea of his' country, as being apart from the struggle, however much, outwardly. he may have considered It tempor arily expedient to acquiesce in a surface neutrality. Not unr til the social consciousness of the world has been forced up to a new level, and this as a permanent contribution to posterity, can the thing we call Germany be ponquered. The word represents not a nation an embodiment and so Mr.

Masson did not read his Kant in vain. Sunshine Pellets Dr. W. P. Thompson A wishbone is a poor substitute for a backbone.

Kvery form of artificial is accessory and unnecessary. From far and wide there tropped a tide They came from every quarter: For every ill they drank their All And pralaed the famous water. Bxercise in moderation, when taken in the open air, is constructive and prolongs life. Exercise Involving violent exertions are destructive and shorten life. The hand that fries the chicken is the hand we all adore.

When the baby yells because a pin is sticking him. soothing syrup wlil make him Insensible to the pain, but It won't pull the pin. Lots of folks think that they have forgotten more medicine than the doctors ever knew, until Willie spends five years and all the family's loose change at medical GENERAL FERRIE. Amateur wireless telegraphists from a score of nations and representatives of all branches the science from many parts of the world recently convened for the First International Congress of the craft in Paris. The gathering and its proceedings had as a outstanding figure an interesting personality In the realm wireless a French soldier whose achievements as inventor and as scientist have made him famous internationally.

He is General Ferrie, since 1923 in a of all transmission from the great French wireless station which makes use of the Eiffel tower. The station is one of the chief points of interest in Paris for wireless enthusiasts. To the world's millions of wireless enthusiasts, the name of General Ferrie has been made familiar by a whole series of inventions and adaptations of wireless apparatus. His work in this direction long ago bought him public recognition and its scientific value was shown by the fact of his election to the French Academy of Sciences. Head of Army Wireless.

During the World War the gen. eral was head of the military wireless services of the French army. Under his direction was developed the remarkable organization through which the French and al lied armies maintained mastery of the ether against the central pow-ers until the day of final victory. His reward included the cravat of commander in the Legion of Honor and this was followed by his ap pointment as Inspector general or military telegraphy and transmis sion. General Ferrie was born fifty-seven years ago in the Department of Savoie, but the years sit upon Ljiis shoulders lightly.

From his i. i aptitude for scientific pursuits. This aptitude resulted in his entrance into the celebrated Kcole Poly technique and his graduation therefrom with high honors in 1889. His army career began witn rum holding the rank of lieutenant and his progress, both as a soldier and as a technician, was steadily up ward. He was a lieutenant-colonel when the war broke out and a brig adier-general soon after It endec.

A few days ago a presidential decree made him a general of division in the French army. DINNER STORIES A tramp had been admitted to the casual ward of an English workhouse late one night and the following morning he appeared be fore the master. "Have you taken a bath this morning?" was the first question he was asked. "No. sir.

answered tne man in astonishment, "is there one miss ing?" An Australian visitor to the United States tells the following story: An American was being snown about the bush when a herd of bul locks made its appearance. "What are those" tne American asked. "Bullocks, of course," was the answer. In America they are three times as big," the visitor remarked. A flock of sheep passed, ana again there was Inquiry aa to what they were.

"Sheep, of course, tne Australian replied. "Guessed may were raDuiis. auoth the American. By this time tne 'Australian nan learned something, and when three kangaroos hopped along and the American inquird what they were he replied: "urassnoppers, or course. A man, somewhat in his cups, staggered up on a bridge spanning a river.

He leand over the ran and gazed down into the stream where was reflected a full moon. The sight fascinated him, and when another gentleman who had also looked into the cup that cneers Joined him, he pointed to the reflection and asked, "Whassat?" "That the moon, answered the other. "Well, if thas the moon, whats Is doln' down there and whata ray doin up here?" THE HIGH-WHEELED BIKE Kaneas Star. "You write about the thrill of sliding down hill belly-buster," an old-timer writes: "Why don't you say anything about riding the old high-wheel bicycle?" We shall; we do. Candor compels the admission 'that we never rode one.

Not that we were not of bicycle age at the time of the old high wheels. But in those glad, mad days, only the rich could afford a bicycle, and we were not of the plutocrats. We used to study the old A. W. Uump catalogue of secondhand wheels.

It came from Dayton O. If memory serves, a dazzling gor geous document, presenting grand bargains. But the prices quoted never fell below $25 and so far as we were concerned $25 was just as prohibitive aa $2 600. Once we had a faint hope we might get enough subscribers to the Youtn companion to get the Columbia bicycle pictured in its pre mium list. But after working all one Saturday we gave up.

We saw we would have to live to be 200 years old before we would have accumu lated enough subscribers to do any good. Another a spark was kindled by a young profligate who offered his old bike for $10. But carrying in stove wood at 2 cents a weeK, ana snoveung snow at a nickel a week failed to make ap-perciable progress toward the $10 goal. But we admired the riders from afar, and we were always out to see the parade of the local chapter of the let's see, L. A.

wan it? Yes, the League of American Wheelmen. And we worshiped the heroes who bore the bars testifying to the completion of century runs. Sneaking or neroes, there was Doggy Jones. Doggy had a Star wheel, a high bicycle with the little wheel in front. He would ride down the street and Just before getting opposite a bunch of girls he would tilt back ana continue on nis way with the front wheel in the air.

He could use that front wheel to-knnck tin cans off the street. A real artist. As we were saying, we got the thrill of the high wheel bicycle aln right. only it was a vicarious thrill, we got it watcning the other boys. ially only, one year 6 00 Fundey only, one year 4 00 Da ly and Sunday, one month Dally only, one month Rl'RAC ROUTES.

Pafly only, one year 4 gaily only aix montha Dally only, per month 0 For leaa than alx montha use monthly rata BT CARRIER. Dally, alx daya II centa Dally and Sunday, one week eenta SUNDAY. MAT IT, 12. He shall give you a Comforter that shall abide with you forever. John xlv, 16.

SPIRITUAL POWER FOR LIFE The conception of religion as a life which we hare derived from the teaching of Jesus confronts ua with no easy task. Jesus -did not minimize its difficulties. There were no glowing entice ments to soft living in His por trayal of it; nor did His most loyal followers, out of their experience, promise to new recruits a smooth road and freedom from struggle. "Fight the good fight of faith." wrote Paul to Tinothy. "Endure hardness as a good soldier." "Salvation" that is to say, the full realization of God's best for life is to be worked out, developed with effort earnestly and persistently employed, and with a consciousness of the perils involved.

"If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me." declares the Master, making abandonment of the self-regarding attitude toward life an absolute essential at the very beginning of the new experience, together with readiness to undergo the supreme sacrifice for -which the cross stands as no other symbol. But there is another side to the picture which must not be ignored. Jesus made it very clear that the man who resolutely accepted his way of living would find power for the undertaking, and Jesus spoke from knowledge. He had, himself, found that jjower. He had experienced its operation in His own life.

It had been sufficient for Him under every circumstance of stress, of temptation and demand. He had wrestled with the subtlest forms of temptation during forty days of loneliness and increasing physical exhaustion at the outset of His public work, and He had con quered through reliance upon this power. He had thrown himself into a life of arduous toil and constant drain upon sympathy and nerve force, and had met its requirements without failure. He had carried His ideals of selfless living unsullied and unlowered through every test, through the "mental agony of the garden and he suffering of He promised that this same power Would be 'available to those who adopted His principles and set Jhemselvea to follow the way He Mad traveled. He spoke of it as he Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, the Helper.

His i-mmlaA waa tTinr this 1 Krould come into the lives of men i a a na women wuu accepiea anu beved His teachings, and would le to them a source of power and Visdom. "Work out your own salva-ion," wrote Paul later, "for it is od that worketh in you." We are admittedly in the realm the mystical here; but we are i the realm of reality. We have ie historic fact of Christ, and le indisputable experience of His pllowers through the centuries i a demonstration that the mys-cal is the real, The power of te Helper has been manifested, id is today manifested in mul-tudes of lives. Analogies are dangerous and ust not be pressed too closely; it faith today should not be dif-jult in a power unseen. In the arid of physical phenomena we ve innumerable derrvonstra-ms.

We reach out, press a but-n and immediately a flood of appears. We have brought to operation an. unseen power 'iich lay ready at hand, because had faith in Jts existence and "eyed the conditions necessary I obtain Its help. It was long fore man learned that this The Star's Cross Word Puzzle By and by, when history is fully written, it will be found that among the men and women of the good old colonial times, were some of the most virile personalities to be found In all history. How many of the rank and file of the people aa they come and go, know very much about Margaret Brent, the unconquerable Mary-lander, of whom It has been.

written, that "had she' been born queen he would have been as brilliant and as daring as Elizabeth; had she been born a man, she would have been a Cromwell In her courage, audacity and achievements." Margaret was born in England about the year 1600, and died at St. Marys, Maryland In 1661. In between these dates a life was openly lived before the world that will be an Inspiration to men and women for ages to come. It was in 1618, in her thirty-sixth year, that Margaret Brent reached Maryland from her home in England, and without losing any time she began to make her presenee felt In the colony. It was Impossible for Margaret Brent to be anywhere very long without letting those about her know that ehe was around.

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64. To cook in a certain way. 65. An Insect. 68.

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73. At this time. 74. Made able. 75.

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An ancient sun god. 5. Delivered (abbr 57. An Inlet of the sea. 59.

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64. To liberate. 66. A co ordinating conjunction. 67.

A number. 69. A period of light. 70. Family; breed, class.

71. To behold. 72. A pronoun. sorcerers.

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