In
another column we publish a short report of the speech recently delivered by Senator Works of California, before the United States Senate, in refutation of misstatements which have been made concerning the League for Medical Freedom.
MANY
clear thinkers have studied the operations of the law of growth, and have given us some of the results of their study along lines biological, ethical, mental, and spiritual.
HE
was one of those to whom a holiday brings the coveted privilege of getting out into what at its best may be well named "God's own world," into the fields and woods, the unimpeded sunshine and sweet-scented air.
THE
apostle Peter counseled his followers: "Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you;" but there are many who, no matter how clearly a doctrine may be presented, refuse to be convinced thereby, and still demand, "Give me the ocular proof.
One
of the many unwinsome aspects of the mortal make-up which prove intolerable to nobility is that general limpness which tells of the lack of distinctive character.
How many longing and troubled hearts have echoed that humble request of the disciples: "Lord, teach us to pray,"—the instinctive confidence in God and His goodness that turns our thought to Him as a sure refuge in time of need, an unfailing tower of strength when the frailty of all human dependences, the unstableness of earthly hopes, bring to our lips the psalmist's acknowledgment of God's allness, "Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Without
the gleams of light which come from spiritual intuition, the history of mankind would have been dark indeed; but happily these have come from age to age, and most vividly when most needed.
In
the hour of temptation to discouragement because of the manifest inadequacy of our present realization of Truth to solve a given life-problem, we may find both illumination and rebuke in Jesus' words when he said, "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed.
Whatever
the field of human interest, in the last analysis that which begets envy and jealousy, strife and division, with all their attendant ills, is a false estimate of values, the failure to see that real achievement and real merit are determined not by the specific work one has performed, but by the spirit and efficiency with which he has performed it.