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sown and the fulness of the harvest must ever 

 be direct and immediate. The age is long since 

 passed when the walls of Jericho will tumble 

 down through the faith of the many. If they 

 do so without the aid of a modern weapon of 

 war we shall find the phenomenon explainable 

 upon very natural causes, and the time at which 

 they fall as the barest coincidence. 



EFFORT A LAW OF LIFE. 



It should not be that the chief end of man 

 is to spare himself from the toil and care that 

 make life such a tremendous responsibility. He 

 is by birth a servant and not a Master or King. 

 His chief duty lies in obedience to the mandates 

 of conscience and to the needs of the world. 

 Says Huxley: "We should cast aside the no- 

 tion that escape from pain and sorrow is the 

 proper object of life. We are grown men and 

 must play the man bearing the evil in and 

 around us with stout hearts set on diminishing 

 it." Is this not sufficient answer to the ques- 

 tion, Is life worth living? To my mind no 

 one but a coward can have any doubt about it. 

 As long as we are in the world, we must 

 be of the world, doing our stint of work 

 as well as we can, no matter how small that 

 stint may be, or how ineffectual our efforts 

 may prove. Much of the best work now being 

 accomplished is being done by the great masses 



