THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1924
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CONSIDER GREAT THINGS: Fear the Lord, and serve him
In truth with all your heart; for consider how great .things he hath
done for you.- 1 Samuel 12:24.
PRAYER: O Lord, Thou; are all-sufficient. Thou dost supply
our every need. May we he conscious thai we are kept In the hollow
of Thy hand. . j
"FLAX RAISING IN OREGON"
t --. (Textile American for August.) i
''Purchase by the state of Oregon of 12 imported flax pull
l ing machines to be used in the 1924 harvest of this crop in the
Willamette valley, has attracted attention) in textile circles to
"the possibilities of flax production on a large scale in the Pacific
Coast state. ; :- - v: - -" ..' j
' "Flax-has been raised in the Willamette valley which is
the richest and most extensive agricultural section of Oregon
for more than fifty years. No other section of the United States
can produce flax of equal quality and length of fiber. j Experts
have declared the Oregon product the equal I of the finest pro
duct in Ireland, IJelgium or the Baltic states. It was, in fact,
awarded first prize in the Centennial Exposition held in Phil
adelphia in 1876, taking first on all nine counts over fiber ex
hibited from the principal-producing centers of the world, and
has been a consistent prize! winner at all textile exhibitions since
that date.:'; .. ; p;
, "It is estimated that at least one-third of the area. of the
Willamette valley, or 2,000,000 acres, is suited to flax produc
tion. In 1924, approximately 4,000 awes are devoted to this
crop, of which 2,700 acres are under contract to the state for
manufacture at the state penitentiary, according to C. E. Wil
son, manager of the Salem (Ore.) Chamber of Commerce and an
authority; on Oregon flax: E II
'The state penitentiary has full equipment for the retting
and scutching processes involved in extracting the fiber from
the flax. ; This plant will, however be taxed to the utmost this
year to care for the product under contract. A number of
smaller plants are being built at various points in the district
to take care of the surplus, f j j "?j j
'."With soil, climate and water supply very nearly ideal for
(he growing of flax, the development of a great textile industry
- waits onlyup6n the establishment of linen 'spinning'' and wea v
, ing mills. ' -J- I'-- i" .
"In spite of the fact that the Willamette valley is today a
great dairying, fruit and diversified farming center (producing
80 per cent of the world's supply? of loganberries, boasting the
,-largest hop farm in the world, the largest tulip farm, more
world's record Jerseys than all other states combined), there
iare yet large areas devoted to the growing of grain crops,
i Willamette valley farmers are becoming interested in the possi
bilities of flax production on a large scale as a substitute crop
for present non profitable grain crops.'- H h i 1
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- The above from the Textile American, Boston, one of the
bi? magazines of its elass. is calculated tn attruftt. the ftttentinn
of some of the people who ought
development of the flax industry and the coming linen industry
,here . -, l: j - ; ":"
The people who are to build and operate the spinning,
weaving and specialty mills; that are necessary for the full
development that is justified by bur natural advantages.
We must have the attention of such peoplerif there is to
be a rapid and full development. One successful mill, producing
yarns and weaving them, will blaze the way ; and when we get
"two or three more, which now seem about assured, many more
-will follow; the growth will be cumulative, i
The future greatest group of millionaires in Oregon are
pojng to be flax and linen millionaires ; and they will be among
the solidest of all our wealthy people, because they will be
engaged in an enduring industry, and one founded upon annual
crops taken from the land,! which will produce such crops as
Jong as water runs and grass grows. ; i
DRIPTIXa TO FEDERALISM
A good ' many people have be
come alarmed because In the last
few years tremendous strides have
been made in favor of government
in buslnesa. There has been an
insistent demand to put govern
ment In-business and strangely
enough we are getting so we don't
fear it like we used to. Our fight
now Is1 not to get government In
business but to keep government
out of business.
Two United f States senators
representing absolutely opposite
Ideas of government have recently
spoken against government in bus-
Iness, against the drift towards
' federal control of everything. sen
- ator Wadsworth of New York and
Senator Borah of Idaho, two men
'representing entirely different
principles although members; of
the same party each sounded the
alarm. '
Government in business was
feared by our forefathers, but we
fhave long since got over the fear
; and are becoming more and more
paternalistic. We are relying on
t the government whereas the gov
ernment Is really an agency? for
5 the transaction of certain things
called government. It Is contrary
to every : Idea of the republic to
have government in business but
. it is there and it Is hard to see
how we are going to take It out.
. When the first white settlers
I came Into the Pacific northwest
they leaned but lightly upon the
distant federal government at
Washington. , Local government,
i t1"-!, ""i everything-. The
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to be reached at this stage of I
them almost not at all. They sus
tained their schools, built their
roads and bridges, managed their
agriculture and industry, and even
fought theiri battles with hostile
Indians, t with ; little federal aid
or Intervention.
But as the years went on a ten
dency crept in to lean more heav
ily upon the federal government,
to send increasing supplications to
Washington. -And that process and
Influence have been working in all
parts of - the union until many
have come to believe that our pub
lic schools can riot be ran without
direction from i Washington, our
roads can not be constructed, our
diet regulated, our children prop
erly fed, i bathed or ritamized but
through the Instructions of an em
ploye of a Washington bureau or
a bulletin struck off from the gov
ernment 'printing presses in the
national capital. ! .
NOT SO DANGEROUS
The strength of Senator L"
Follette is a good deal like the
milk sickness in Indiana over in
another county. Away from here
everybody, is supposed to be for
La Follette from the discontent
ed business man to the lunatic
fringe. " , - -.
However, the appearance of Sen
ator. Shipstead In Salem yester
day was a disappointment in the
way of enthusiasm. Senator Ship
stead is a strong man who has
been much in the public eye. He
is a good speaker with a, fine per
sonality and has a -record ; much
Wter than hfa-eosoelate-in -tho
Shipstead does not represent ihe
radicals nor the loose thinkers, fie
is the genteel type and is actuated
by motives that can not be ques
tioned. ; . M :fj
However, his appearance In this
city has quieted the fears of thoBe
who over-C8timated the strength
of Senator La Follette. : Oregon
will go for oColldge. It will give
La Follette a good vote, but not
enough to seriously trouble the
waters. ; -
La Follette's support is made
up largely of radicals ranging all
the way from pink to crimson
Discontented voters are giving him
some additional : support. ; But
these are elements of weakness as
well as of strength. They will
repel those voters who are averse
to being linked up with radical
ism and discontent, and who will
prefer to march under banners
that Btand for sound, constructive
progress, pride in American his
tory and confidence in the tried
institutions of this government
The average voter will vote his ac
customed party ticket. ' V
NOTIFYING THE CANDIDATES
We noticed the other day a pro
test against notifying ; candidates
of their nominations. It was de
clared a farce, and Jokes innumer
able have been made about .the
inklings of the proceedings of the
convention having reached the
candidates. This Is cheap ribald
ry. .-
The purpose of notification s
to give formal notice that the can
didate has been nominated. After
he has had time to collect j his
thoughts he can present to the
voters of America his . ideas of
government, i The people have a
right to know for what a candi
date stands personally, in addi
tion to his platform.
Suppose the night John Davis
was nominated in New York he
had been called upon to accept the
nomination. Under the storm -and
stress of a distracted convention
it would have been absolutely im
possible for j him to. make. :any
presentation of the issues to the
people of America. AH he could
have done would have been io
thank the convention amid loud
applause and let it go at that. As
it was, the candidates of both the
great parties had leisure to calm
ly and deliberately work out ideas
of government and their speeches
of acceptance were dignified state
papers.
NOT QUITE CIVILIZED
Russia Turkestan Is not quite
civilized. . It has not learned the
ways of the 20th century world
Some officials there were found
derelict and they were killed. That
is certainly not conforming to
modern practices. ,
We sometimes dismiss derelict
officials from office; other times
we keep them in office and reward
them. One member of the pres
ent congress who is under a two-
years': sentence for fnaud, j has
been re-nominated by the republi
cans of a Kentucky district. An
other member of congress who is
charged with an unspeakable
crime has been re-nominated by
the republicans , of . Minnesota.
Men under indictment have been
re-nominated and sometimes v re
elected. . It is only occasionally
that the people get aroused to the
enormity of their own' offending
in continuing such officials in of
fice, i : ; ' ' - '. I
DAWES ACCEPTS
The acceptance of General
Dawes was mild but It was satis
factory to the republicans. ; So
much has been said about Dawes'
rough and ready, uncouth ways
that a good many people were ex
pecting him to blow blood through
his nostrils and tramp around like
a mad bull. Instead of that Mr.
Dawes made a calm, dignified ad
dress as becomes a man running
for the second place on the ticket.
He dealt almost entirely with for
eign affairs As presiding officer,
of the senate that Is where' he
exerts the most Influence.! s
Incidentally his candidacy will
not suffer (by any attention di
rected to foreign affairs, and his
part in straightening out the en
tanglements that have held these
countries down since the close of
the war. : .
i Dawes address shows a serious
minded, capable statesman.
THE PROTECTIVE ISSUE
The democratic and republican
platform differ widely on the
tariff. The democrats, as indi
cated by the acceptance addresses
of both Davis and Bryan, are; in
clined to center on the tariff issue.
The republicans will welcome this.
The tariff never ought to be a
political question, but it always
has been, and for many years' to
come it will be. The republicans
have had all the advantage by
making it a political question,
however. Every time there has
been reaction against the republi
can tariff policies the country' has
fallen into the .dumps and paid
a severe penalty for deserting the
grand old party. The democrats
has been workable,- The republi
cans have made one that has no
been workable.
MORE XAVSEATIXG
The country has been nauseated
with the trials of two murderers
in Chicago. It appears now we
are to have another nasty case
from kos Angeles,, where a man
by the name of Kid McCoy is
charged with the murder of hi
mistress.
Certainly there-ought to be an
end to these Balaclous cases. They
are deplorable in many ways
They injure the public mind; they
pollute the press and disturb the
clean thoughts of the youth.
PROBLEMS
Adele Garrison's rvevr Phase- of
REVELATIONS OF A WIFE
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Service
CHAPTER 24G
HOW i MADGE WAS FORCED TC
FACE THE MYTERIOUS
j STRANGER
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There's no use 'looking arounc
here any longer. Margaret.
ought i to have known better, thai
to waste my time coming to any
store in this section. Never ask
me to come with you again
Please! wrap up , three yards o
that, and give me two spools of
black silk No. 6Q.''
My mother-in-iaw Interrupte
her tirade to give the direction to
the saleswoman. - Then she re
sumed it with a different griev
ance. ; i.
"And for mercy sakes. do K'
on out ahead and start that car
so that I won't have to sit
around waiting for it to go!. You
won't! more than get it to going
before I get out there."
Oh! Let us wait until " I be
gan. ; But I changed my sentenct
quickly at the astonished look or
my mother-in-law's face. "I'd
like to look at some of these
draperies first,"' " I stammered,
snatching at any : chance, to re
main in the rear of the store un
til the people in the front should
have departed.
Not that I would have lingered
one instant because of the under
bred curiosity of the Smythe-Hop
kins group. I flattered myself
that I possessed: sufficient poise
to carry me ignoringly past' them
But I was really panic-stricken at
the possibility of the man whom
they called Don Ramon Amlirez
accosting me and recalling my
meeting with him on the train. I
could visualize Mother Graham's
reaction to such; a meeting and 1
had a vivid idea of the caustic
catechism to which I should be
subjected on the way home.
A Strong Impression
had another reason or
rather, instinet-"-for not wishing
to encounter the gaze of the mys
terious Don Ilamon, who, I was
convinced by this time was no
more; foreign than I. The impres
sion was strong upon me by this
time that if I could only look be
neath the mask afforded by the
white moustache, and Vandyke
beard and the disfiguring lenses
of the glasses, I should see a face
knew. It troubled me that I
could not clarify my impression,
though I am aware that in spite
of, my really unsual memory, I
am what Dicky terms a "distinct
dumb dud," when it comes to
penetrating even a simple dis
guise. - . i.
But my mother-in-law Is as
clever in that direction as I am
stupid, and she already had re
ceived the impression that the
mysterious stranger reminded her
of someone whom she had seen.
found myself dreading a closer
scrutiny on her part, and I real
ized that back of this dread was a
fear that she would penetrate the
mask which baffled me. Just why
feared her recognition I could
no more have told than I could
explain, the reason, why the
stranger's bizarre personality half-
fascinated, half-repelled me.
Mother Graham's quick retort.
however, told me that by lingering
I was courting the very danger !
feared. v j ;
Is That His Game?"
"What's the matter with you?"
ehe demanded in a low tone, mov
ing close to me. "You needn't
hand out any excuse about drap
eries to me. There's some other
reason you don't want to go now."
"What nonsense!" I said with
as much sprightliness as I could
force into my voice. "And, if
you're in a hurry. I can run over
and look at the draperies another
time. I'll start the car right
away. Come, Junior." i
I took my small son by the hand
and; walked steadily toward the
door, forcing myself to cast Just
the sort of casual glance toward
the group standing near it that
one; ordinarily would give. And
with the look I realized that I
would not be troubled by any in
spection, amused or otherwise,
from the three ;peopleaccompany-
lng the ' mysterious Don Ramon
Almirez. - -- 4 .'.!
Three pairs of eyes were fixed
MY MARRIAGE
(ham - in his ' rnthcr flimhnvan '
a-e - m mm m b u t iptti v j j a u a
manner, So I seized the oppor
turiity in Dicky's atrocious but
apt slang to "give them the
unce over,' as suiting my steps to
Juiiior's, I made my way toward
the street. :
Pompous Father, overdressed
Mother., Daughter just; emerging
from the flapper slage -they were
veify ordinary types, I decided,; and
there was nothing outside the us
uaj in the fawning, tuft-hunting
demeanor of the; elder people to
ward the mysterious I foreigner.
But there was something iu the
common-place pretty face of the
girl looking up at Don Ramon
Almirez which startled me by its
genuineness. It mirrored for any
one who looked at her, the callow
romantic adoration which is
aroused in some of her type for a
distinguished and flamboyantly
courteous man many times ; her
age.
"Is that his. game?!' I asked
myself hotly, almost as if I had
solved the puzzle which lay be
neath his picturesque exterior,
and personally resented his action
And then almost as I had
reached the door a sudden parox
ysm of coughing shook Don
Ramon, I heard him mutter some
thing about the open air and re
alized with dismay that he was
coming toward me. :
(To be continued)
l BITS FOR BREAKFAST
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Circus day..' ' i .
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Circus grounds. 14th and I
streets-
s V V
The usual place, next to the
public school playgrounds.
"
Al G. Barnes, the circus man.
has grown to be a big figure in
this field. . He advertises the
greatest four-ring wild animal cir
cus going, and he has laid him
self out on his Pocahontas rdpc.
tacle the only case of American
royalty at the court of Queen
Anne. So much so that prepar
ations for the spectacle make it
impossible to give the usual street
parade, The fact is that circus
street parades have become de
trop with all of the big circus
owners. They cost too much, and
bting too much grief In the way
of lawsuits for damages on ac
cpunt of runaway teams, etc., etc.
I .. ? "b ,1a S
Slogan man has got to show.
tomorrow, that Salem is a litre-
stock center. If von rjin hln it
is your duty. Today.
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Talking of the circus, did you
notice that General Dawes receiv
ed the news that his scheme for
bringing peace and stabiltlv to
Europe was finally ratified, while
hp was with the other kids at
tending a circus at Chicago? This
puts the human touch on Dawes
He is a regular, fellow. The love
of the circus makes the whole
world kin; outside of a few. old
grouches who could not be shaken
Out. of their "shells by an earth
quake.
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I Putting the linen mill over little
by little, j See editorial page
f The principle of dehydration Is
a: great principle. In the primitive
form of drying It is as old as the
race. But dehydration as known
here is drying with a college edur
cation. It saved the civil popu
lation of Germany from starva
tion during the Wprld war and
neipea Keep the armies in the
field In food j It is caoable of
saving billions of money annually
in the United States in the con
servation of fruits and vegetables
and in economies - of freieht
charges and containers. It is
capable or transferring abundance
in any section to a relief from
scarcity in any other section of the
world. It is to be hoped that
the dehydration plant In Salem
may yet be put on Its feet I a
substantial way. to give an ad
ditional form of marketing our
fruits and vegetables. The Bits
fpr Breakfast man believes this is
all possible. Dehydration is not
dead. The princiDie is firnnnmt.
cally sound. , i
j NEW CORPORATIONS I
I The following articles of incor
poration ;were filed yesterday:
Oregon . Iron Ore. Develonment
Company, Portland ; incorporators
George F. Heusner. J. G. Edwards
franklin T. Griffith, Joseph Sup
ple, William Cornfoot, Charles N.
Carey; capital $1,000,000. ,
Bar View .1 Water comnanv.
Portland; incorporators, D. L.
Terwllliger, R. E. Jackson. Eliza
beth Jackson; capital $5000,
Francine, Portland; Incorpor
ators, J. R. Fulop. Adrienne Fu-
lop, W. C Peer; capital $50,000;
apparel. .
Notice of an increase in capital
from $100,000 to $250,000 was
filed by the Western White Cedar
Company of Marshfield.
Notice of dissolution was filed
by the Douglas Fir Lumber com
pany of Portland- 1
There are. too many resort
twons where one can't find any
thing to do except light another
Cigarette.
I FUTURE DATES
Ainii 2J-S1. Paelfifl Cmhih ilrnnJ
conference. Center Street M atkaiiil
canrrh. .
September S. Wedneaday, Labor Da.
September' 15; Monday, Willamette
Would Blow Himself
They were digging a ditch, were
Pat and Mike, and it was hard.
back-breaking work. Pat handled
the shovel end of the team, while
Mike swung the pick.!
i "What would be the first thing
ye'd do, Mike, if someone left ye
a million dollars?" Pat suddenly
asked his partner.
; Mike straightened up from his
pick, dlooked at his callouse
hands, and thought deeply. Final
ly his brow cleared.
t -"Shu re, an I'd be after gittin'
me a new handle for this dom
pick!" be replied.
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Seveni Come Levcn
"Temus, Ah was a artist until
Ah got cleaned out."
! tjuuoa man, what kind of a
artist was yo t' git cleaned out?"
j "Well, Temus, Ah was a Cube
artist."
. - Helen Quinto.
Rings in the Life of Maid
Age One: j Teething rings.
Age Five:; Baby ring.
Age Ten: Embroidery rings. '
Age Sixteen: Telephone rings.
Age Eighteen: Doorbell rings
Age Twenty: . Engagement
rings.
Age Twenty-six: Wedding ringi
Age Twenty-eight: Clothes-
wrings. ; ;
i Edna Baehr.
Upside -.Down - i
Mrs. Brown: i "I admire Dr.
Young immensely He is so per
severing in the face of difficul
ties that he always reminds me of
fatience sitting on a monument
Mr. Brown: "Yes. But what I
am becoming rather alarmed about
the number of monuments sit
ting on his patients."
, i Charles W. Fry.
J Agreed -
Irate Officer (after an auto 'ac
cident): "Such bonehead driving;!
Why that little shrimn isn't fit to
Ibe runnng at large!"
Lady on sidewalk: "Don't I
know it! I've been living with
him for fifteen years," i
, Horace Liveright.
v A Proposal ;
She sat upon his lap. twined
her arm about his neck nersua
sively, kissed him sweetly on the
cheek, and then she popped the
question.
What's this, you ask? A Lean
rear proposal?
Goodness nn! Rlvr
- "w t"--a,, VftU
daughter is merely coaxing her
aad to let her drive the new auto
i Martha Smith.
Sublime Fnitli ;
VI wouldn't marry the best man
living." asserted the girl; with the
bobbed hair.
"Of course you wouldn't.
agreed the girl with the new en
gagement ring. "You couldn't."
And why couldn't I?"
"Because I'm going to."
i Judith Wilson.
Absent Xreatmenc,
"I am afraid that the church
means nothing whatever ; in your
lire, Mr. Wallace?"
"You misjudge me. Dr. Crane.
There are few things' I enjoy more
than to lie in bed on a Sunday
morning and listen to- the church
bells." . , . :,
f Helen Russell.
From Our Children's Garden of
Curses ' . .
Teacher (to English history
class): "Who can tell me what
Benedict Arnold's last' request
was, before being executed?"
Willie: "He asked that he be
buried In his union suit."
William W.' Campbell.
HUNTING 1
I have trailed the jungle tiger.
I have tracked the erizzlv bea.
I have dropped a leJping' leopard
Ana i didn't turn a hair:
I have kept my wits about me,
As I d have you wisely note.
Till this hunting expedition
Came along and got my goat.
Though I've faced a roaring lion
And a hippopotamus.
Though I've mingled with a cou-
"' ' ger.
In a most exciting fuss.
Though I never have been rattled
Even by my raging spouse.
All my nerves have gone to pieces
In my hunting for a house.
-Edgar Daniel Kramer.
Bark Home Again
Peggy reports that she had such
a stupid time on her vacation.
She was saved from drowning
three times once by a porter,
once by a champion woman swim
mer, and once by! a married man
on his honeymoon.
Interpretation
Little Eddie's mother was teach
ing him his Sunday school lesson,
and the Golden text was: "Be
not afraid, it is I."
The following Sunday when the
teacher asked i what the Golden
text was, Eddit held up .his hand
and said': "Don't get scared. It's
THE LAW OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE
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. ; (Copyright 1924 by San Jot Mercury) ; ; ij . :
TO have a correct under,stantting of tlie teachings of Jesus we
must have His viewpoint on the questions discussed. We
are beginning to see that there are two laws and consequently
two rules of conduct touching men's lives, ther!ij-s'ical and the
spiritual. Whatever may be one's belief as to the;lirth of Jesuy,
all who have studied the record of His life contained in the New
Testament; agree that at least after His experience in the wilder
ness He represents the'type of the spiritual man. The New Tes
tament records His teachings after He came out' of the wilder
ness in the power of the spirit and they are, therefore, the teach
ings of one who sees and understands with the Spirit and who
seeks to iijstructMhe world in the laws and rules Of conduct gov
erning one .who lives under the law applicable io the spiritual
life. ; - " ; il.i-" ;- )i '. "
Many of the rules of conduct announced by Jesus do not and
cannot apply to the physical life. Jesus was revealing to the
world a Hew standard of life, a higher and more perfect system
of living that governs Urne who has been born pfthe spirit and
He was inciting men so to live that they could' come under this
higher law of life and He taught that all might come under it
who lived in accordance! rith His teaching. The Sermon on the
Mount is a revelation of the rules governing the conduct of the
man born of .the spirit. When man is so born jhe is no longer
under the: domination of ihe physical life but the spirit of God
dominates his life and controls his conduct. With this spiritual
birth new powers are unfolded within man's nature and these
powers supply his necessities in new ways and supercede the law
of the physical life. When man is born of the spirit he has power
to employ the spiritual laws of God to gain wisdom, to provide
sustenance for himself and these laws govern his conduct.
We make a serious mistake if we assume that the rules of
conduct announced by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount can
be applied to one who is still living under the law of the carnal
life. The physical man must live under the law applicable to
that life until, as a result of his aspiration and effort for the
higher life he is prepared for the birth into the spiritual life
and such birth comes to him. ;
When Jesus said, "Take no thought for your life, what ye
shall eat, or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body, what ye
shall put on." He was not prescribing a mode of life for, the
man not yet born of -the spirit. His reference in this connection
to the lily of the field contains' a beautiful lesson, hut He does
not intend us to understand that the lily furnishes the model af
ter which the physical life of man should be patterned.
In this connection We must remember that God's life finds
expression in the universe in two forms, the physical, of which
the earth is a part, and the spiritual. The lily is a part of the
purely physical life. As such it is attached to the earth and is
fed and sustained wholly by the physical elements incident to
the earth, the moisture and the air, as well as the' chemicals com
posing the earth itself. Upon these it relies for its life and the
physical laws of God are so ordered that the life that is thus
attached to the earth is sustained and preserved by the earth.
When man is born of the spirit he is attached to the spiritual
life of God in much the same way that the lily is attached to the
earth.- The spiritual man is fed and strengthened by God's spirit
as the lily gains its life from God's physical life. One born of .
the spirit need give no heed to his future wants ' he lives in har
mony with God's spirit and every necessity of his life is supplied
by a law that works as perfectly as does the physical law that
cares for the lily, The spiritual law, as announced by Jesus, is,
"Ask and it shall be given you.' ' The asking here referred tois
not by word of mouth but is the call of the life of the spiritual
man fpr what it needs, as the lily calls upon the earth and the air
for its wants. As God V physical life answers the call of the lily,
so does His spiritual life respond to the needs of one born of His
spirit. One iu this spiritual condition lives and moves and has
his being" in God and His spirit and he has no need for physical
things except as he uses them as instruments through which to
do his work. It is, therefore, not necessary for one born of the
spirit to gather physical stores against future needs, for being
attached to and a part of the spiritual life of God and being sup
plied by God's spiritual life with everything he heeds, whenevet
there is developed anecessity for any pli3'sieal thing to enabla
him to do whatever God's spiritual life calls upon him to do God
supplies such physical thing by a law that works as perfectly
and more unerringly than does the physical law that cares for
the lily: -'-;".- :;4Y I:' -
I Jesus not only told of this law by the parables He used but
He illustrated it in His own life
not only a glimpse into the working of God s spiritual law as it
applies io the life of one bora of the spirit-but He shows us that
this life; can be lived upon the earth. It is not the place of our
habitation that determines the application of this law to our
life but the state t our spirit and our harmony with God's spirit.
Wherever we are when; God's spirit that is now within us is
twrn into such action as to control and dominate our lives, then
shall Ave live in the spirit and
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As they shilly-shally and engulf
The hero. .
With her blondined permanent,
In her baby-dollish way,
Will rescue him
In the last hundred feet. .
Get your hat! '
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