NOVEMr.KR 1, 1915 



A. I. Root 



OUE HOME 



Editor 



'i'i> this end was I born, and foi- this cause came 

 into the world, that I should bear witness unto the 

 truth. — John 1S:37. 



No weapon that is formed asainst thee shall pros- 

 per; and every tons;uo that shall rise against thee in 

 judsmeut thou shalt condemn. — Isaiah 54:17. 



IVar thou not, for I am with thee; be not dis- 

 mae.vd, for I am thy God; I will strenirthen thee; 

 yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with 

 the right hand of my righteousness. — Isaiah 41:10. 



AVhen I was about ten years old, on com- 

 ing into the schoolroom one morning. I, 

 with the other pupils, was wondering what 

 a certain sentence on the blackboard meant, 

 written in a beautiful hand as follows: 



' Magna est Veritas, et prsevalet." 



When the teacher came he explained to 

 our curious and inquiring minds that a 

 friend of his, a college giaduate, had just 

 paid him a visit; and while in the school- 

 room he picked up a piece of clialk and 

 wrote that motto. He said it was Latin, and 

 when translated into our language it meant 

 " Great is truth, and will prevail." During 

 that whole day many curious eyes were cast 

 now and then on tliat beautiful specimen 

 of penmanship. I always had a love for 

 language and words ; and even at that early 

 age I decided that the word magna meant 

 something like our word mighty — ti'uth is 

 mighty; and the word Veritas I figured out 

 meant something like our word verify; and 

 the last word, praevalet, it was easy to 

 .^uess, meant to prevail or become estab- 

 lished. And all along these 65 years I have 

 wondered again and again if the truth will 

 finally pre\ail over falsehood and tangled- 

 up intrigue. 



In our temperance work, the liquor party 

 will get hold of a little bit of truth. They 

 exaggerate and twist it, so that sometimes 

 even good and honest men get rattled. A 

 few days ago while at our dentist's he asked 

 why the Y. M. C. A. of Medina Co. gave 

 up its regular meetings duiing hot weath- 

 er. He asked me if I ever heard of Satan 

 taking a "vacation" because the weather 

 was hot or business was dull. And I am 

 not sure but that at such a time, when peo- 

 ple are off on an excursion, or are taking 

 a vacation somewhere, it is the time when 

 Satan gets in his best licks. Tie, at least, is 

 untiring. 



On p. 3.3:^, Minnie J. Ellet tells us that 

 a Summit Co. liquor-license commissioner 

 said Kansas was finding prohibition a fail- 

 ure, and tliat Kansas would have to go back 

 to license, etc. Well, this story has gone 

 out far and wide; and although the people 

 of Kansas, and especially the governor of it, 



has taken every precaution to have it contra- 

 dicted, it is almost impossible to keep up 

 with the lie — a lie made out of whole cloth; 

 for, so far as 1 can learn, there was no 

 foundation at all for such a newspaper 

 falsehood. It seems to verify the old say- 

 ing that " a lie will walk around the earth 

 while Truth is pulling on his boots." With 

 all the methods of communication, with our 

 magazines, weekly and daily papers, tele- 

 grapliy, including wireless, is it going to be 

 possible to contradict the falsehoods and 

 keep truih before the people? Years ago it 

 was my privilege to listen to a talk from 

 Anthony Comstock; and we frequently have 

 iiewsi:)aper notices that he is still alive and 

 ])rotectiiig our people, especially our boys 

 and girls, from sometliing that may be even 

 irorse than strong drink — from something 

 that usually goes hand in hand with strong 

 drink, and which would hardly keep alive 

 i£ it were not for the help that it gets from 

 saloon-keepers. All along during Cora- 

 stock's faithful service, every little while a 

 report is started, saying that the PostofRce 

 Department has dropped him or given him 

 up ; and lately it has come out in the papers 

 once more. 



The Sunday School Times of a recent 

 date, when commenting on the matter, had 

 tlie following: 



" THE FALL OF COMSTOCK." 



That was the headline of a recent newspaper 

 editorial. 



For Anthony Comstock has had a fall. 



But he has fallen on top of his enemies. 



And Mr. Comstock is a very heavy man. 



His feet are not small. And when he falls, he 

 has a way of landing squarely on both feet, with 

 his enemies underneath. 



It hurts when Anthony Comstock falls. 



But it doesn't liurt him. 



You'll be interested in reading the Open Letter 

 slory of his " fall." 



Then you'll want to know how it is that for more 

 llum forty years Comstock has landed on his feet. 



He has had more savage enemies than almost any 

 other man in our generation. 



They've tried to bribe him, to discredit him, to 

 kill him; and they couldn't. 



His life-story is one of the most thrilling tales of 

 adventure ever written. And it shows the miracle- 

 kcoping power of our God. 



The enclosed is a clipping from an editorial 

 in a recent issue of the daily in this city. Will 

 you please tell me the story of the " Fall of 

 Comstock " ? I cannot believe it can warrant 

 such a title. — A Ca^jadian Reader. 



The Canadian newspaper article was similar to 

 otheis that appeared in various parts of the United 

 States last month, to the effect that Anthony Com- 

 sock. Secretary of the New York Society for the Sup- 

 pression of Vice, was to be removed from the posi- 

 tion of Postoffice Inspector that he had held for more 

 than forty years. The reasons hinted at for his al- 



