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fies the men of corruption? Is graft 

 a stronger unifying force than the 

 simple motive of righteousness? It 

 seems so, and it is because we run to 

 the emphasis of the material and 

 neglect the spiritual. 



Another example of this tendency 

 to materialize life I would put on 

 this page. Time was when music 

 was the expression of soul harmony. 

 It is true yet where real music is 

 found, but the fittest symbol of this 

 mechanical age is the pianola. It 

 grinds out the melodies, the har- 

 monies, in that cold, regular fashion 

 that would drive Beethoven, Liszt, 

 Wagner, Chopin, to suicide. Yet I 

 have seen a pianola in a Bishop's 

 home! A new crusade the birth- 

 place of our Lord must be saved from 



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