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was preaching at Ephesus about the one God, Artemis, I think it was, a 

 silversmith by profession, a maker of idols, became incensed at the pros- 

 pect of the destruction of his business and got the rest of the silversmiths 

 together and said, "This fellow is going to interfere with the idols that 

 we have been selling to the people, and we would better protect our- 

 selves." So he got the population together and marched through the 

 streets crying "Great is Diana of the Ephesians," and they went to the 

 temple which we are told was 400 feet long, 60 feet high, with 60 giant 

 columns supporting the roof. That is four of the great wonders of the 

 world. Then came the Tomb of Mausolus, erected in Halicarnassus by 

 Queen Artemisia in memory of her husband. King Mausolus. That is the 

 fifth. And then there was the Colossus of Rhodes, that most marvelous 

 statute; and then, finally, the Lighthouse of Alexandria. That completes 

 the seven great wonders of the world. But note this, gentlemen, they 

 were all physical achievements, some big structure made by the hand of 

 man to wonder at. 



Now, recently there has been a list sent to a thousand Americans and 

 Europeans, the great men of the time, asking them for their selection of 

 what are the modern seven wonders of the world, and what do you sup- 

 pose they are? Note them! Wireless, the telephone, aviation, anticeptics 

 and antitoxins, the x-ray, radium, and the solar spectrum. Every one of 

 them things that are necessary and important to the betterment of human 

 conditions. Think of that change in conditions! The great note in our 

 age is service, is usefulness; and the man or woman who does not catch 

 that note goes out of human life without the greatest thing that is in the 

 world, 



Hugo in his great story "Les Miserables" has Jean Valjean carrying 

 Marius through the darkness, stumbling hither and yon, but pretty soon 

 his eye adapted Itself to the night and he could see the outlines of the 

 great structure in which he walked, and so Hugo shows from that that 

 as the eye dilates in the night and finds light in it, so the soul dilates in 

 misfortune and finds God in it. 



Now, since this great cataclysm has already shaken loose the rivets of 

 the world and almost brought it to wreck and ruin, it is for you and me 

 to find something to carry in our hearts to make us better men, and that 

 something should be the ideal of service, the ideal that sent our boys to 

 the other side, leaving 80,000 of them fallen, with the flag before them, 

 with the roar of battle in their ears, forever to sleep under the wings of 

 renown. 



It is the note of service, the service you are rendering in your great or- 

 ganization, that has in it the great opportunity to teach people of this 

 state. While three or four hundred thousand people attend our great state 

 fair, five or six or seven times more attend the great county fairs you 

 represent in your state organization. And so it is up to you and me to 

 be as helpful in our time as we can. 



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