THE BONNEWITZ GARDENS, VAN WERT, OHIO 
As the Years Are Passing 
I have a physical life, and at the age of sixty-eight, I am enjoying 
health of body. 
I have an intellectual life, and my magazines, my books, my con¬ 
tacts with intellectual men and women and last of all my own 
thoughts and meditations bring me more satisfaction than in earlier 
life. 
I have a spiritual life which was dormant, but which has 
been awakened and stimulated into growth by the events which the 
depression has brought. This spiritual awakening and growth has 
brought a new zest into my life; a zest which I would like to share 
with everybody with whom I come in contact. 
I would like to be a member of a club of men of my own age and 
older, who would share with each other their intellectual and spir¬ 
itual experiences, in the hope that we might help each other to 
higher planes of thinking. What a satisfaction to each, if such a 
club, (a club without fees—without dues—without offiicers—and 
even without a meeting place), could bring to us the knowledge, 
that the world in which we have been living is growing better. 
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