Article October 13, 1934 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from E. Winter, Louis L. Perkins, Beatrice E. Green, John McDowell, Harry B. Clarke

[E. Winter, as quoted in the Surrey and Hampshrie News, Farnham, England]

Did you ever watch a sculptor slowly fashioning a human countenance? It is not molded at once. It is not struck out at a single blow. It is a work of patience. A thousand blows rough-cast it, a thousand chisels polish and perfect it, put in the fine touches and bring out the proper expression; it is a work of time, but at last the full likeness comes out and stands fixed and unchanging in solid marble.

So does a man carve out his own moral likeness. Every day he adds something to the work. A thousand acts of thought and will and effort shape the features and expressions. ... Habits of love, goodness, truth, and unselfishness; habits of falsehood, passion, and low living silently mold and fashion it, till at last it is either beautiful to behold or something to shun. If you were to take goodness out of the world, the world would collapse or crumble away. Imagine the world without good thoughts, good intentions, good deeds, and good impulses. It is the duty of every right-thinking person to cultivate goodness.

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