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prophetic was that query, in view of the stupendous revolution in 

 social and industrial relations brought about since then by the use 

 of electricity ! 



When miracles are mentioned our minds instinctively revert to 

 the miracles chronicled in the Bible ; and yet, with the possible 

 exception of the raising of the dead, is there a miracle recorded in 

 the Scriptures that is more wonderful than the miracle of the tele- 

 phone? It is a miracle of a very real, practical nature; a miracle 

 that has revolutionized every detail of our present-day life, social, 

 financial, and industrial ; a miracle that has annihilated space and 

 brought the world so close together in its everyday relationships 

 that we have become one small group of people, regardless of the 

 hemisphere on which we live or the race to which we belong. 



Business Revolutionized by Science. The revolution in busi- 

 ness methods caused by the use of electricity has been so rapid and 

 so complete as to cause bewilderment and consternation in the minds 

 of multitudes of our people. They are fairly staggered by the 

 mighty changes that have taken place, and I sincerely question 

 whether they comprehend the fundamental cause of these mighty 

 changes; and this lack of comprehension, in my judgment, is 

 responsible for much of the unrest that permeates the world today. 

 Multitudes of people engaged in everyday affairs are seeing the 

 results, feeling the results, without understanding the causes, for 

 they have not been furnished by the men who have produced them 

 with sufficient information as to the causes and the results which 

 these causes are bound to produce. 



The business men of the United States have been very properly 

 charged with having been so engrossed in money making during the 

 last quarter of a cenutry that they have given very little if any 

 attention to public affairs ; have given very little if any of their 

 superb ability to public service ; and have given nearly all of their 

 ability to pursuing selfish ends, largely of a money making nature. 

 Much can be said to substantiate this charge, but, in my judgment, 

 a similar charge can be made against the men of science. They 

 have been so engrossed in the fascinating problems on which they 

 have been working that they have taken little or no time to inform 

 the public as to the practical effect that modern scientific inventions 

 were bound to have on the everyday lives of our people. These 

 inventions have been placed in the hands of the people of the world 

 within the last third of a century, and their application to business 



