Article May 16, 1936 Issue

Signs of the Times

Topic: Quietness

with contributions from Ralph Welles Keeler, W. A. B., Sparks W. Melton

[From the Rochester Times-Union, New York]

The great work of the world has been done in quietness and confidence. Galileo was quiet when his eye caught the swinging lamps in his village church and his mind saw the meaning of their motion in relation to celestial mechanics. Behind the clamor of the day is the steady laboratory worker studying the experiment that has failed a hundred times, and making ready to try for the one hundred and first time.

It is so everywhere. "The tumult and the shouting dies, the captains and the kings depart." Then comes the miracle. It may be a way to peace; another world-shaking discovery; an insight into some personal problem, or a sudden strengthening. ... But it comes in the quiet. It opens like a road when, freed of anxiety, we are gifted with vision.

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