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AUNT MARY’S SWEET CORN FARM 
Permanent Values 
“The people of America are now as never be¬ 
fore turning to those PERMANENT VALUES 
which are not limited by the physical objectives 
of life/' The above quotation is often, yes very, 
very often in my mind, for the physical objective 
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of my own life until my sixtieth year, was “the ac¬ 
cumulation of wealth." In this objective, I was, 
for a small town merchant, reasonably successful 
and with great confidence, I had a right to expect 
to leave for my daughter an estate of this world's 
goods of at least two hundred thousand dollars 
value. 
But, like the thousands and thousands of good 
American citizens whose names during the past 
ten years we have been reading in the suicide col¬ 
umns of our daily papers, my values were not per¬ 
manent. The worldly accumulations of a success¬ 
ful business life of over forty years have been 
swept away as if they had never existed, and I 
find myself with about the same amount of ap¬ 
parent values as came to me from my father and 
my mother. 
But I am not asking you to mourn with me 
over my losses, but to rejoice with me over my 
gains. 
My gains are not only greater than my los¬ 
ses, but they are permanent and will not be lost 
even at the grave. And as a human hand was 
guided to write the message which brought me 
in touch with the source of all permanent values, 
I hope this hand of mine is being guided to per¬ 
form a similar service for some one who needs 
help and encouragement. 
Here is the message: There is a new religious 
movement which apparently has God's blessing, 
for it is changing the lives of men and women and 
bringing them into communion with what they be- 
