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practically  down  to  every  detail.  He  had  often  said :  "  I  am  ready 
to  go  at  any  time ; "  we  have  reason  to  believe  that  he  was  ready. 
Only  a  few  of  his  intimate  friends  know  that  he  gave  some  of  his 
deepest  thought  to  religion,  to  his  relation  and  his  responsibility  to 
God.  Here  then  is  an  example  of  real  preparedness.  If  we  heed 
the  call  for  national  preparedness  against  an  evil  day  that  may 
never  come,  is  it  reason  to  neglect  preparedness  for  the  inevitable, 
our  last  day,  when  we  shall  have  to  render  our  account  to  God? 
There  is  but  one  true  preparedness,  and  that  is  found  in  Christ,  who 
with  out-stretched  hands  calls  us  to  Himself  with  the  well-known 
invitation  "  Come  unto  me  all  ye  that  labor  and  are  heavy  laden,  and 
I  will  give  you  rest."  In  Him  we  find  forgiveness  of  sin,  the  adop- 
tion as  children  of  God  and  heirs  of  eternal  life.  He  stands  before 
us  full  of  consolation  and  triumph  when  He  says :  "  I  am  the  resur- 
rection and  the  life ;  he  that  believeth  in  me  shall  never  die."  Look- 
ing up  to  Him,  our  Lord  and  Saviour,  let  us  go  forward  in  our 
daily  task,  conscious  of  our  responsibility  to  Him  and  of  our  ulti- 
mate victory  in  Him,  consecrated  in  utter  unselfishness  to  Him  and 
to  His  cause  which  finds  one  of  its  best  expressions  in  unselfish 
service  to  our  fellowmen. 
NOTES  FROM  THE  RESEARCH  AND  BIOLOGICAL 
LABORATORIES  OF  E.  R.  SQUIBB  &  SONS. 
The  Pituitary  Body  in  Therapeutics. 
By  H.  S.  Adams. 
The  investigations  which  in  recent  years  have  built  up  our  present 
knowledge  of  the  glands  of  internal  secretion  have  yielded  practical 
results  along  two  important  lines.  Of  these  the  first  is  the  treat- 
ment of  diseases  finding  their  origin  in  an  abnormal  condition  of 
the  gland,  involving  an  excess  or  a  deficiency  of  secretion.  A  second 
and  quite  as  important  result  has  been  the  discovery  that  these  glands 
may  be  the  source  of  substances  of  tremendous  physiological  activity, 
which  may  be  applied  to  the  cure  of  conditions  not  definitely  asso- 
ciated with  a  diseased  condition  of  the  gland  in  question.  Of  this 
second  class  the  present  use  of  our  knowledge  of  the  pituitary  body 
is  an  eminent  example. 
