EDITORIAL 



f Reprinted from our August number to correct an 

 error of omission.] 



"DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP." 



bad thing and every foolish thing and 

 every pernicious pursuit and institu- 

 tion should be discarded. 



"Roll the Sleeves Higher and Try 

 Again." 



"Bring in the candles and let us go 

 on with the work," (as commonly 

 quoted), were the immortal words of 

 Abraham Davenport in the legislative 

 halls of Hartford at the time of the 

 famous Dark Day. 



Whittier's poem metrically puts this 

 saying as follows : 



" 'No faithless servant frightened from my 



task. 

 But ready when the Lord of the harvest 



calls; 

 And therefore, with all reverence, I would 



say, 

 Let God do His work, we will see to ours. 

 Bring in the candles.' And they brought 



them in." 



These are our dark days, due to the 

 world-wide crisis, but it is a time for a 

 steadier and firmer clinging to all good 

 things. It is not well to let go. The 

 situation now in war time is different 

 from what it is in any other time only 

 because it demands a little more work 

 on behalf of all good things. 



The sensible words from the famous 

 Stamford lawmaker, the unperturbed 

 Abraham Davenport, have come ring- 

 ing down the decades. In recent times 

 another famous lawmaker of Stamford, 

 the late Honorable Samuel Fessenden, 

 said in terms equally terse and equally 

 praiseworthy though perhaps rather 

 more startling, "God Almighty hates a 

 quitter." Neither Davenport nor Fes- 

 senden enunciated a new fact. They 

 only, each in his own way, emphasized 

 the old truth taught by the Divine 

 Man, "No man, having put his hand to 

 the plough and looking back, is fit for 

 the kingdom of God." 



These are the times in which every 

 good thing should be sustained, and 

 with more tenacity than ever. Every 



A Recess from War Talk. 



When a well-known man recently 

 called at ArcAdiA, after the usual 

 greetings I inquired of him, "What is 

 the late-t in this morning's papers 

 about the war?" He held up both 

 hands in protest and said, "Now, 

 please, give me a little rest from war. 

 I hear it everywhere. I see it in the 

 papers, it glares at me from billboards 

 and show windows. I thought I would 

 come to ArcAdiA for a few minutes to 

 get a little relief. I do not want to hear 

 a single word about the war.' 



"Sorry, but f did not mean- 



"C)h," he said, "you meant all right 

 and so does every one else. I do it 

 myself. We ought to talk war. The 

 newspapers should have a great deal 

 about it, and the ministers should 

 preach about it, and I thoroughly be- 

 lieve in this Liberty Loan, Red Cross 

 nurse, economy of food and Home 

 Guards and all the frills and fixings 

 that go with war. But once in a while, 

 and I hope you do not think me un- 

 patriotic. I want to quit it all, and that 

 is why I came to Arc VdiA." 



Unconsiouslv he voiced exactly what 

 we have in mind when we omit from 

 this magazine, and ordinarily from con- 

 versation with our visitors, all reference 

 to this war. Because the man was par- 

 ticularly interested in this war and per- 

 haps knows more about it than any- 

 body else because he has been right on 

 the spot, I thought to please him by 

 mentioning what I supposed to be his 

 favorite topic. And so it is with you, 

 my dear reader; you read, you think, 

 you give, you sacrifice, you economize 

 more for the war than for anything 

 else that has ever come into your life. 

 Yon do it gladly, but deep in your 

 heart there is a feeling that once in a 



