Youth is the age of striving and selfishness; old age the period of dreaming dreams for the young and for the future that age is not to see.

In our civilization the trouble is that all is planned for youth and too little for age.

The man who can lift the load, run swiftly, hit hard and push his fellow down the hill is the man for whom all plans are made. There is little place or honor in the world of today for the old; little heed is paid to their dreams, there is little appreciation of their kindness and unselfishness.

But it will not always be thus. The day will come when youth will listen with respect to the teachings of the old and look with love and reverence upon the unselfishness of the old.

The young man in his full strength, climbing the hill, meeting and overcoming obstacles, adding to the knowledge and possessions of his fellow men, indifferent to pain in the pursuit of his object, is an admirable being animated by a thinking mind.

Far more admirable and beautiful is the old age of peace and kindness. The old man looks upon the grandchild, dreaming dreams for that child's welfare, thinking not of himself, yet deeply and intelligently considering the future in which he is to have no share, guiding and restraining impetuous youth, and wisely stimulating imagination. There is a sight more to be admired than any accomplishment of fiery youth.

So it is with women that have created the human race, borne its burdens and shared so little in its honors. The young woman in all her beauty and power, with her courage in childbirth and her marvelous capacity

men of our race as the white-haired grandmother, unselfishly devoted to younger people, happy in the memories of youth, serene in the peace of old age, unselfish, benevolent and as far in peace, dignity and beauty above the turmoil and passionate eagerness of youth as is the white cloud above the black soil cut into furrows.

It will be well for the world when human beings realize that they live in one life many lives. Then their lives will be divided properly that in each year mind and body may do their best, and give to the Spirit the closest relationship with the universe and the sense of fullest accomplishment.

The trouble is that we put into one age the duties and the feelings of another. Our children are men and women before they have really been children. And the old are cursed with anxiety that should be borne by vigorous youth alone.

There is little honor for the aged, and our civilization lays upon nine-tenths of all human beings such a load of hard labor and selfish struggle that they cannot grow old in dignity.

The visions of youth are clouded by unworthy, selfish, petty ambitions. The dreams of age are made hideous by poverty, anxiety and other evils that old age should never know.

However, a better day is coming quickly. For the first time in the history of this earth there are entire great nations, all of whom can read and think, if they will.

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

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.

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.