Selfishness will die out as thought and intelligence progress. Knowledge is no longer the possession of a few, keeping the majority in ignorance and in want,

Already we see in the old age of our richest, most powerful men signs that point to a better future. The very rich give away their money intelligently, to help human beings on this earth.

In their plans for education, distributing knowledge, combating disease, they dream dreams of a better and happier world. Great fortunes are no longer spent to bribe unseen powers and buy eternal felicity for the individual and not important soul. The rich man of today plans for the happiness of those that he has to leave on this earth. He dreams dreams for the earth dwellers.

Already in an imperfect way we see realization of what we take to be the meaning of that text from the Bible.

A young man starting out, even in our distorted civilization, sees visions of wealth and power for himself. If he has the power he gets wealth, and in his old age dreams of a better world, gives back tens of millions to those from whom he took the money and power that he cannot and would not take beyond the grave.

We hope that Mr. Thomas A. Edison, who, like a hero, has served his fellow men as few have done, will change his mind, and decide at least eight or ten years from now to give up the hard work and devote his

life from seventy years of age onward to the dreaming of dreams, the contemplation of the marvelous universe that lies around us in the vastness of space, the wonderful future possibilities of his home-earth, and the intelligent and wonderful race that will one day inhabit it.

Nobody needs the whole world to choose from.

One chance, one opportunity to show what there is in you is plenty.

Don't let an occasional change of mind discourage you, or make you think you lack character.

"Have you something to do tomorrow; do it today." -Benjamin Franklin. Easy to say. It was his ability to take the advice that made him Benjamin Franklin.

Fear dreads the light, and knowledge is the only light.

In prohibition territory whiskey has not been driven out. Wherever there is prohibition there is whiskey, sold in secret, and whiskey of the most poisonous kind.

Don't be ashamed of your little knowledge.

But do be ashamed, if you do not add to it, whenever you can, and especially if you fail to make it useful to your fellow-men.

The Importance of Religion
in Man

The Great Napoleon, agnostic and hostile to religion, yet pointed to the stars from the deck of the ship on the way to his last prison, St. Helena, saying: "Say what you please, some one created and controls all that." He said at St. Helena: "There is so much that one does not know, that one cannot explain. Lord Rosebery, in his "Napoleon, the Last Phase," says: "One of the books that Napoleon loved most to read aloud was the Bible-and he was, we are told, a great admirer of St. Paul." This editorial is written by request to be read in a Young Men's Bible Class.

A RELIGION is the one progressive force in this world. Religious feeling gives to man the power that has lifted him above the other animals, and has lifted his eyes from the earth and its selfish interests, to the sky, the stars, and highest abstract speculation.

Of all animals that live and feel and suffer upon this earth, man alone looks upward. The eagle flying in the daytime, the owl at night, look always downward for something to kill and eat-they have power to fly, no power to send their thoughts to the glorious, inspiring sun, or the stars that shine above them.

Man alone through the ages gradually standing erect, has at last fixed his gaze upward, and for a few thousand years in the tens of thousands that he has lived on this earth, his chief interest has been religious.

Religion has freed men, during the evolution of religious thought, from brutalities, superstitions, hatred and cruelty.

"Men will easily breakfast in Paris and lunch in New York on the same day." Not so many years ago sturdy pioneers needed months to cross this country in covered wagons. Recently Lieut. John A. Macready flew from New York to Cheyenne between daybreak and dark. The distance between breakfast and luncheon is getting shorter every day!

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