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January 8, 1922
THE CITIZEN
Pag ThrM
MAY REORGANIZE
THE DEPARTMENTS
CONGRESS WILL TAKE ACTION
ON REPORT SUBMITTED BY
BROWN'S COMMITTEE.
SOME OPPOSITION EXPECTED
Plan Contemplates Consolidation of
War and Navy Ivepartments and tha
Creation of a New Department of
Public Welfare.
By EDWARD B. CLARK
Washington. I'luiia arc on fur (lia
rcorguni.uiloii of the viirlima depart
ment of government. The dctuil of
reorganisation are ninny und somewhat
intricate. u expected llmt the re
airtCHiilxutloti 'iiiiinilt-f. which Is coui
hihi'i uf member uf congress, except
for It t luiliiiiiiii, who Ih Walter F.
llrown uf Ohio, will submit a re
urtlHtilzutioii lilll to congicas by the
presidential route. TIiIm mean thut It
will Iihvb tin- sanction of I lie Chief
Executive.
'J here Ima becu variance of opinion
among cabinet members a to the
wisdom of some of I lit thing which
are to lie, proposed. It sccma to be
irtunlly assured today tdut the bill
for reorganization will Include a pro(
onUIoii fur 1 1 consolidation of I lie
War aiul 'Nuvy department Into a
greater department of defense with a
chief secretary at Ita bead mill with
undersecretaries fur war aiul navy
The plain uImi Villi Ini'luile a recum-
iikmhIiiIIuii fur the establishment of a
department of public welfare which
l to include a grcnt iiiuny bureau
anil divisions which now nre working
under other departments of the public
service. In the department of public
welfare. If It Him 1 1 be established.
probably w II be the bureiiu of educu
tlun. the public beiilth service nniJ a
(Tims! inniiy other branches of the gov
ernment which III a general way are
connected with wluit loosely bun been
culled rurutlve, uplifting and bciictl
cent emli-iivor.
Consolidation Will Ba Opposed.
It la almost certain thut there will
lie oimltloii In congress to the change
contemplated by the Wur and Nuvy
iliI'rt iikiiI k. It Ik urged that money
will be saved by the consolidation of
lh two mlllliiry brunches of the scr
vice und thut Mime diillcntuii of work
cun he done uuny wllh. hut there alsi
l a feeling I Mm I the two servh-cs, nl
though boih me ml 1 1 1 it r jr. lire mi ill
similar In their linen of t'tidt-avor and
action Hint Independence for each I
needed.
There In uiiuther mailer which enter"
Into llila question of the roimol libit Ion
of the War mid Navy li'ui rt infill
It la that of prcfi incut to the tilth
ollli-e of secrctiHy of the dcpurtmctit
of defense. Who In to bC iroinuted
In the position, and will the present
secretary of wiir und the present
secretary of the navy. If neither Is to
he given promotion, be satisfied to re
liniiii uh utidersccieturics? This mut
ter. of course. Is a personal one iiml
litis to do wllh the amhltioiiH of men
or wllh the ulslncllnatlon of either
one of the present chiefs to roiitliiil
III service as Mihurdlinite to one who
bus been pimply an otlldul of eipiul
rank. The hthhiuI end of thla con
Irovcrsy prohuhly run be taken rare
of. but before mutter dually are ad
Justed It la believed there will be
some neart burning and xMMlbly a
reslgnutlnn r two from the govern
men l service.
There will lie opposition, also, to the
establishment of a department of wel
fare. The President long ago ex
pressed his desire for such a depart
ment, and It wan rumored thut be In
tended l.i make 1 r. C'hurles K. Sawyer
of Marlon, O., who was appointed to
the reserve corps and now Is tern
porurlly on the active list, to be the
chief of the new dcparttisMit.
Why Educators Object
Opposition to tha department of
public welfare In congress will route
from men who do not believe that
the direction of certain activities of
the government should be taken away
from the departments which now are
directing tlieni, und placed under tha
smiervlNlon uf a new branch of the
government. It In understood that the
bureau of education dm-a not wish to
he transferred from Ita place In the
department of the Interior. Moreover,
there la a fairly strung feeling In the
country, und It has been made mani
fest In Washington, that there should
lie a department of education Inde
pendent of all other departments.
The educators who lake this view
of the mailer suy that the comlltlun
of Illiteracy In the I'lilted States Is
appalling and I hat the subject of edu
cation Is vital enough to the govern
ment to Justify and mote than Justify
the establishment of n separate de
partment with U cabinet oltlcer at Ita
bend.
Home one lias been figuring on the
saving which will accrue to the govern
ment If the report of Die reorganiza
tion committee Is accepted by con
gress, line student of the si tun tlun
has said Hint the suvlng will be some
thing mure than a million dollars a
day. This means, of course, f.'ltlA .Mil,.
UMI a yi'iu, which la a g.x.d deni of
money, but when men are pressing for
some departure from the usual pro
ceeding In government they are apt
to lie over-oplluilstle and ierhupa also
to he extravugunt iu their claim uf
(lie good that la to result.
Partisan Activity Continuous.
Congress la In session and rolncl
dent with It there la an Inter-
tiaflisial si m conference. Nsforiillt
It would be aupiHiM'd that these tnft
great olivines In Hie capital would
consume tiionl of the Interest of legis
lator, delegate and layman onlooker,
hut politics keeps us n shop In Wash
Ington all the year through, anil every
day la shopping day.
It would not be a difficult tiling
for the must violent partisan to writ
nonpartisan politics at thla stage of
the political roiitest, I)oes It seem
turlous to use the word "contest" at
a fine when, generally speaking,
throughout the country campaigning
seems to lie In an Inactive singe?
Well, so fur an Washlngtou la con
cerned there alwaya . a contest on
between the two great Hilltlcul parties.
It find evidence in Die house of repre
sentatives. In the senate and In the
various bureaus of departmental life.
Not a iH'mucriit In either house of
congress and nut a hold over Itcunsrnt
Ic oIIIcIhI in any of the departments
but la watching 'lay by day for those
signs of Itepiihlicau failure along this
or Hint Hue of endeavor which point
In some MThiips promising way toward
a change of parly rule at the No
vember elections In l'.i-"J. and the
greater change In November, p.KM.
The limitation of armament con
ference Is about the only thing in
Washington lislay which stands aloof
from the purely partisan political
Held. 'Hie findings of the conference,
It Is perfectly true, have been attu' ked
by both I'eiuocratn and Itepubllcans,
but, the attacks have not been aimed
at the purposes of the conference but
rather at the menus employed to ac
complish the purposes.
Lota of Political Propaganda.
The I'einocruts, however, are ex
ceedingly busy In congress and through
their national committee in the en
deavor to show that the Republican
thus fur liuve accomplished little or
nothing along the line of the promises
which Hie party made in the cam
paign of 11 '..'11. The Itepubllcans. on
the other band, are pointing with the
proverbial pride to Hie things already
done und are offering explanations
for the tilings left tJielone. explana
tion coupled with the prophecy Hint
all the islds und ends wiA lie picked
up before another six mouths have
gisie by and that "fulfilled" then can
lie written after the list of pledges
made In the last national convention
and In the lust presidential campaign.
The liemocratic and Itcpuhllcun na
tional committee nre still at their
work of political propaganda. Kv.ry
editor In the I'liiled Stales, pre
sumably, mid certainly every cor
respondent of iievvspaer who Is sta
tioned In Washington, Is receiving ul
tnust without Interruption more or
less delectable mutter Intended to he
printed III behalf of the liemocratic
or the licpiihllcnu cause.
One fi-cls that I iusl say with per
fect . frankness that a khhI deal of
this material which Is received la
the old tiitie campaign propaganda
bunk of a k tid that would lie received
with acclaim only by the mosshacks of
either party, men who would vote fur
Itcvlzchtih if only ho happened to be
running mi the right party ticket.
Exploiting the Em. Service Man.
The ex-service man is being ex
ploited by the comiuMtcc of both
parlies. I 'crimp it Is cruel to say
"exploited." but such Stems to be th
case. Hie livmocrat constantly a if
telling what they would do for the ex
service tun ii and the Kepubllcuus con
stantly are telling what they are doing
fur Hie ex service man. The soldier
vote has been in American politic!
since ((evolutionary days. I saw not
long ago Hie original manuscript, yel
lowed with ane, of an address which
was dolie vd In Hie slate of New
Vork In the yar I71M. It had in It,
hut It must be confessed rather In
directly than directly, but perhaps
none the less forcibly, a plea thut the
soldier of the Uevoluilonary war
should "vote right."
It Is to be lukeu for granted that
the veterans of the Wur of SV1 were
sought after In like manner wheu the
succeeding election campaign begun.
The history of the pleas for the aoldlef
vote after the 1.1 v II war, pleas which
continue to some extent to this day,
is well known.
One of the curloua features of this
el soldier matter I that the manage-1
incut of euch political parly picks out
here and there an Isolated ruse off
Justice done, or Injustice done, and
exploits It as if It were the general
rule of the party to which credit or
discredit Is given.
There nre a good many shrewd poli
ticians who think that a lot of time
and energy Is being wasted by the
political managers In seeking for the
o-called soldiers' vote, lieuincral
are licmocnitB and Itcpuhllciius are
Itepuldlcans, whether they fought for
their country or not, and the seemingly
shrewder politicians In congress and
out tuke this for grunted.
War Device Made Useful.
Further in northern .Minnesota are
supplied with a.' cur loads, or 714.1 "Ml
pounds, of picric acid, which Is being'
Used In blasting slump and bowlders j
in cut over districts. The acid was
obtained from the government. It wasj
originally ooiaioeu iiy inv government
for war purposes.
Approximately lld.OlNI acres will
have been cleared when the govern
ment's allotment to Minnesota bus
been used. A large part of this acre
age will he cleared the present aeu
soii. All of the picric acid will be de
voted to land rleuring.
Natural Teammate.
"'Spouting and roofing' seem alwaya
paired together." iald the (list floor
walker, us he munched hi lunch.
"Sure! Have been ever alnce ieople
began talking through their l.ft," said
tha amart aleck. ,
United States at
Exposition in
Py FRANCTS J. POSTEItf-AND. New Tort.
I)erision of congress that t li it country shall ls recognized at the
international exposition in IJio de Janeiro next year will have a whole
aome clTert upon relations of Sotth and Central American notions with
the United .State. v
Virtually every nation in the cirilizdl world will lie represented
at the exposition. There will lie a real opportunity for the people of all
nations to become acquainted with the activities of every other nation.
And that ia really one of the most important things of the present era,
for if wc know our nriRhhoring nations tliere ia little likelihood of
misunderstandinjr or quarrel.
rlhe United States iovernment owes it to the citizens of this na
tion to see that the representation of this country is fitting to the posi
tion it occupies as one of the greatest powers of the world. The business
interests of this country and the people of the nation generally have a
great deal to gain by cementing that spirit of friendly cooperation and
afreet inn which the Tan-American Union haa aroused between' tha a
tions of the Americas.
. r"--1"-" -
NEWS REVIEW
(Continued from Pas One)
tliaf amoriir those rules" the" flilfTivvfiig
nre to tw iVeiced nn established part
of Internal lorsl las :
"1. A merchant veel must be or
dered to stop for visit niwl se.irch to
determine If chare-tcr before It can
be raptured.
"A merchant vessel must not lie at
tacked unless It refuses to stop for
visit and search nfter warning.
"A merchant vessel must not be de
stroyed unless the rrew nnd pnsseti
Iters have been first placed In safety.
"2. Hclllgoretit submarines are not,
under any circumstances, exempt from
the universal rules above stated; and
if a submarine canned rapture a mer
chant vessel In conformity with these
rules the existing law of nations re
tulres It to desist from attack and
from cn fit ure and to permit the nier
chpnt vessel to proceed unmolested."
rreshlctit Harding Is not disheart
ened by the failure to reach an agree- I
merit on submarines, but hopes that If '
necessary the cotiferem-e will arrange
for another, pnrlev at an early dnte
to further consider that and other
qui stlui s of nriuiiuient limitation and
that nil nations maintaining navies
will be Invited to participate. He re- '
Card It as unfitting "that five nn
tions should set out to legislate for
the w hole world."
OMN.sinKltAlil.K progress was mnde
I In settling the Chinese puzzles.
I Mr. t'liderwood's compromise plan for
I the Chinese tariff us accepted by all
I the powers. This provides for an Im
mediate Increase in tariff of 5 per
cent ad valorem, a future Increase to
7'4 per cent, and an Increase to Y2
per cent when the provlnciul tariff la
abolished. It may be three or five
years Is-fore the Increase to 74 per
cent goes Into effect, since Japan and
India require time to adjust their in
dustries. Apparently the dcudhs-k between
China and Japan concerning Shantung
was complete, and it was said there
would be American ami I'.rlllsh offers
of mediation this week. I!ut from
Tokyo rame the assertion hy "high
oftlcluls" that Japan had gained her
main point and the whole dispute
probably would be settled soon. When
China agreed to negotiate with Japan
for the purchase of the railway. It
was asserted, she acknowledged Ja
pan's right In the road won from
(lerniany. China's offer of treasury
notes In payment for the railway disss
not suit Tokyo as China lias lieen un
able to pay similar notes outstanding.
Japan wants payment hy a bond Is
sue, which would prolong her control
of the railway until rush for the
bonds could be gathered by the Chi
nese. An organization of non Tlolshev'k
Russians has apHaled to the confer
ence tc consider the situation In east
ern Siberia before adjourning. In the
brief submitted Japan Is accused of
politlcul and strategic alms In Siberia.
r AIL EIREANN during Ita recess
haa been hearing from many S'm
I'i In club und other organization! of
Butitlieru Ii eland, and in every In
stance, an far a known, haa been
urged to ratify the Irish peace treaty.
Investigator report that fully 00 per
cent of the people In the Island ex
cepting I'lster are In favor of ac
cepting the pact. The English press
Is confident It will be ratified, and the
I'.ritlsh authorities at Whitehall are
busily working out the details of plan
for the Immediate handing over of the
government of the Island to the new
Irish provisional gov i rumen t.
Just to prod those meinU'rn of the
Imll who still oppose the treaty, Pre
mier Lloyd (ieorge last week Issued a
statement to the effect that the llrlt
Ish government had gone to the ut
most limit, and that not only the re
jection of the treaty, hut even Ita
alteration hy the I 'all would render
It null and void. "To reoven the dls.
eusslon," said he. "which has been
closed only after the most exhaustive
consideration of every point, would
be a fruitless proceeding and la Im
possible." GREAT BRITAIN'S two other fam
ily rows In India and Egy pt are
quieting down some what, though the
condition are bud In both countries,
Kmncrou arrest aud the Influence of
Mulintliia Chandi are serving to di
minish the rioting In India, where the
nrlnce of Wales goes on hi, (estiva
the International
Rio de Janeiro
way little "disturbed. In the Indian
nationalist congress at Ahmedahitd an
effort was mnde to force the adoption
of a motion that complete Independ
ence from the Itrttlsh empire should
ha attained by "possible and proper
means." but Ohnndl and Ms support
ers frustrated this and the wonlhig
"legitimate and peaceful means" was
adopted.
It Is Interesting to learn that a
Christmas message to the Indian na
tionalists. In the form of a poster dis
played in ninny cities, pledged Amer
ican old for the campaign to over
throw r.iitlsh rule In Indln. This
precious document was signed hy 44
Americans, among them Senators
Norrls of Nebraska' nnd Walsh of
Massachusetts, Congressman Htirke of
I'pniisylvanlii, Mayor llnnn of Milwau
kee and former Governor Imnne of
Illinois.
Rioting In various pnrta of Ejypt,
Including Cairo, Tort Said. Alexandria
and Suez, followed the forcible re
moval of Said Zoiil'IouI Pnsha, nation
alist leader, nnd others from Cairo to
Sues, whence they mny be taken to
Ceybm. A number of the natives were
killed and wounded hy troops and hun
dreds of arrests were mnde. Nominal
ly, of course, this Kgyptlnn revolt ts
agalmd the sultan's government, hut
actually It Is sen Inst the Rrltlsh, for
the sultan docs always what the
Rrltlsh Mgh commission advises.
"Nrc wonders whether President
Harding Is not already repenting
his Christmas mercy In freeing Kugeiie
Iebs from prison. From the moment
of Ids release the Socialist leader lias
been emitting a steady stream of
sentimental bunk, disgusting to all
save those who believe, like India,
that all prisons should he abolished,
that lawbreakers should be petted
Instead of punished, and thut the
proletariat can do no wrong. With
the expressed Intention of storting out
to obtain from every man, woman
and child In the world a pledge never
to take up arms, he yet gives 'ex
travagant praise to the Russian revo
lutionist, who have slain hundreds of
thousands.
CKNATOR M'CORMICK and his as-
aoclatea of the committee which
coheres sent to Investigate conditions
In Hultl will recommend occupation
of the Island hy American marine a
necessary to the peace and develop
ment of the Island. It will also ask
the appointment of an American high
commissioner to co-ordinate nnd super-'
vise the work of the American admin
istrator created hy the treaty of
11115, and expedition In making the
proposed new loan sa that the debt
held In Europe may be discharged on
adviintagenua terms and the claims
of Haitians against their government
satisfied. One of the greatest needs of
' the Island, says Senator McCormlck,
Is good roads. This Includes the re
public of Santo Ifcimlngo, where also
the committee holds the American oc
cupation muat he continued for the
present.
" HILE last week accepted Teru's
proposal tkat the two govern
menta send plenipotentiaries to Wash
ington to continue negotiation for a
settlement of their dispute, and Peru
then suggested that each nation first
cable (o Secretary Hughes asldng tha
consent of the I'lilted States for hold
ing the negotiations In Washington,
and also asking that President Hard
ing act a final arbitrator of all dlf
fetences between the two countries,
no appeal from his decisions being al
low .tl. Itollvls Is Insisting that Chile
give her an outlet to the Pitclflc, and
Peru offers .her help In settling thut
question. So the wur cloud that ha
; been hanging over the west coast of
i South America Is getting thinner
dally.
SENATOR LA Ful l ETTE of WIs
, cousin has come out with the re
I nuirkable statement that a secret con
ference wiis held In Washington I'e
ecmher 0 by representative of the
railroad and of the coal, jdeel and
j lumiier Interests, nnd that they at
tempted to obtain from farm organi
zation leadera, and did obtain from
' some such leaders, adherence to an
agreement not to push legislation to
repeal the guaranty section of the
trni'iportatlon act and to restore state
control of state transportation rates.
"If the farmer of the country abide
jiy the agreement entered lnJoby.afj;w
Uncle Valfe
5ion
CLEANING THE DOG
44TMIIS Is the most wonderful snnp
X ever offered the public," ex
plained the voluble agent, as he opened
his grip. "Jt will clean anything un
der the sun.' It will remove grease
spots, polish tinware"
"Oh, I have no
doubt It will re
store hair to bnld
heads and make
rhlckens lay
egR," suid Mrs.
Curfew, sarcas
tically. "I f.wl
quite satisfied It's
mnde of barks and
buds and healing
herbs, but I don't
want any of your
marvelous soap,
hnvlng had expe
rience with other
marvels of the
same kind. Last fall an agent came
along, selling a soap that would do
everything yoo can think of, from
beautifying the female complexion to
chasing the cows out of the corn. The
agent talked as though he had eight
day works In him, like onr old grand
father's clock, and he didn't make any
Impression until he said the soap
would heal all akin diseases of man
or beast. It happened at that period
that Mr. Curfew had an Imitation bird
dog thnt he traded a good watch for,
and gave a dollar to hoot, said dollar
having been extracted from my pri
vate savings, and never returned.
"This dog had the mange or some
disagreeable disease thnt caused him
to Itch In the most reprehensible man
ner. He was always scratching and
rubbing against everything he could
find, first and Inst. One day he up
set my parlor table and broke all my
best china, which I had placed on the
tnhle a few minutes before. He also
upset the sewing machine and the
churn, and I don't know what else.
"So when Mr. Curfew heard that
the agent's soap would cure skin dis
eases, he Insisted upon buying a cake,
and after he had gone he begun to
wash the dog with that marvelous
soap. I don't know what Ingredients
said snap contained, but nfter It was
rubbed Into the dog's skin thnt un
fortunate animal became frantic and
acted as though its reason tottered on
its throne. Mr. Curfew tried to hold
the beast, and It reached around and
bit hla ear almost off. and lit course
he released It then, nnd the uproar
he made, as he danced around the
house, holding his ear with one hand,
nnd summoning the police with the
either was simply scandalous.
"Meanwhile the dog ran off, en
tirely demented. Mrs. Turpentine
was crossing the mud pushing her
hnhy buggy, when the animal collided
with said vehicle, nnd spilled her off
spring Into the mud. I am willing
to admit that such an experience was
aggravating, hut I don't think it was
ladylike In Mrs. Turpentine to come
over to my house with her muddy in
fant under her arm, and shnke her fist
under my nose, and tell me that for
five cents she'd pull all my hair out.
"Old Mr. Popplnjay was standing
on the corner, leaning on his cane,
waiting for a street car. when the
crazy dog ran against his cane and
he took a header Into the gutter, and
I really felt sorry for him when I saw
him going home ten minutes later,
dripping slush and mud like a aen
aerpciit, but I couldn't sympathize
with him so very much when he
picked up a brick as he was passing
our place and smashed a panel In our
front dNr.
"For two days people were coming
here claiming thnt we ought to reim
burse them for damages done by that
dog. It seemed that the unfortunate
animal made a circuit of the town,
and left a trail of desolation behind
him. Jle upset alx pans of milk for
Mrs. Trumpeter, and scared Smith's
family horse so It ran away and In
jured several members of the family,
and killed eight prize chickens for Mr.
Ilppy, and I don't know what else.
In view of which, I think we can
struggle along without any of your
marvelous aonp."
POPULAR SCIENCE
A stainless steel bus been Invented
In Englund.
Oermun sliver Is an alloy of copier,
nickel and sine.
Air, under pressure at a low tem
perature, can be turned Into a liquid
or even a solid.
A newly developed variety of cot
ton bus the long fiber of the Sea lslund
cotton and has the advuutuge thut It
develop earlier.
of tTielrreTireM"TitatTve."" urd Senator
La Follette, "the railroad Interests
will defeat the united demand of furm
cr in every section of the country fur
relief from the present extortionate
railroad rates."
James R. Howard, presldenr of the
American Farm Bureau Federation,
one of those named by the sens tor,
denies that there va "anything secret
or unholy" about the conference.
rr r.t
l' i rvi v. n
Threefold Secret
of a Great Life
By REV. J. R. SCHAFFER
bllsvlur of fe.vf-iiiiig t Isaac, Moody
Uibis institute, CUKSSO-
TEXT.-I live, yet not 1, but Christ UV
th la ms Ciai. i i'i.
The world Is full of secrets. Life
Is a constant discovery of the un
known. Much of
history is Just un
veiling. The fas
cination of "find
ing out" has lured
ou the atlventurer
ii.l tlia "Inveo-
V f f urer." We all fol-
I low In their tram.
srjX Who does not
1 know the peculiar
I ' I tileusure of hsr-
try
Ing a secret or
of e x p e rteuclng
the thrill of finding one out?
Not long since, at a crowded street
corner, a young aspirant for easy
gain directed a bystander to tie
his hands together. When securely
fastened, he pris-ceded In plain eight
of all to loosen hla Imprisoned mem
bers. When free, he offered to dis
close the secret of such a feat for 15
ce'nta each. Nearly every man pres
ent contributed to hi purse. All
wanted to know.
Thla is most simple and Insignifi
cant, but the native human element of
curiosity and the lure of the unknown
hnve enriched with vnst wealth and
crowned with Imperishable fume thou
sand who have penetrated the r
glons beyond the seen and beneath the
surfuce.
tireafest amid all this life of secrets
Is the secret of life. How to live la
the undiscovered to most of us, but
the discoverable to all of us. "Thla
Is life, to know Thee the only true
God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast
sent."
Long, long ngo a man discovered the
secret of great living, and his whole
life was devoted to telling others. Hla
secret has been passed on for cen
turies, nnd we may still profit by It
today. It Is worth knowing. If meas
ured hy earthly standards of values.
It would cost a princely sum. But It
Is free. This mostly discounts Its
high values. Nevertheless, It Is price
less, though costless.
This secret is threefold, disclosed In
three fragmentary express.lc.ns.
First: "Paul, the bond slave of
Jesus Christ." Rom. 1:1. This seta
forth
The Relation to a Person.
Every life U the product of its rela
tionships. "A man Is known by the
company he keepa" or that keeps him.
The people we meet either make us or
mar us, either elevate or degrade,
either enrich or despoil.
How little we realize the weal or
woe of an Introduction to a passing
pilgrim on trie road of life. Some have '
entered our lives. Oh, would God we
had never known them. Others hsve
been a lifelong benefaction.
Think of what these relationships
have niennt mother, futher, Sunday
school teacher, pastor, chum, wife,
children. Oh, can you compute their
valuesT Hut Paul in the anal analysis
totaled his life In this statement: 'I
am what I am by the grace of God."
One day he met Jesus of Nazareth,
the coiiuueror of death, the glorified
Christ of (iod, and he was never the
snme afterward. That Introduction
ripened Into a bonded friendship that
left Its Inrffaceahle brand. When he
would commend his secret to the me
tropolis of , the world, he signs himself,
not a degreed alumnus of Tarsus or
Jerusalem, but "a bond slave of Jesua
Christ." So completely did he hand
over his personality to that of another
as to be able to say after : "I live, yet
not I, but Christ liveth In me" abso
lute self-renunciation nnd abandon
ment, absolute dedication and en
slavement to the Son of God as Lord
and Master.
Second : "I am debtor to ell men."
Rom. 1:14.
Tha Recognition of a Principle.
This Is Paul's Philosophy. It la not
Idealistic, that spends Itself In the
culture of the ego, nor materialistic:,
seeking sensual enjoyment of things,
nor yet socialistic, as found In the
varied dreams ami schemes of today.
This Is t heist Ic God so loved the
world that He "gave." The Son of
man came not to he ministered unto
but to minister and to "give." Paul
did not declare the world owed Mm
a living, but he was a debtor to the
world. Ow-ed something to somebody.
Owed the riches of grace to all men.
lie lived to discharge that debt.
Secret of great living not to get but
to give.
Third: "One thing 1 do." Phil. 3:13.
A Resolution of Power.
Paul hud a motive something that
moved him. a uilglity Impulse, a tre
mendous conviction, a consuming pas
sion. He was energized by a dy
namic. "One thing I do," What was
that one thing? "To me to live la
Christ." To reproduce the erson
allty at whose feel he had cast him
self a slave forever.
This Is a secret of greatness the
highest, most trunscendunt motive, r
solutlng power to life. It Is the dy- .
iiuuio, the engine, the generator of
power. The size of our moilve is the
size of our life. "Heboid I show you
a secret." Oh thut we may learn the
secret of a great life from this dis
coverer. Where Moat Faulta Lie.
I will chide tin brother iu the world
hut myself, against whom 1 kuow too!
fault. Shakespeare.
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