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Show I THE GLORY OF LIFE BY DR. WILLIAM E BARTON lliero am voices reminding us that life is sopftld and hopeli - There an those I'C'IHU.W lg.-rcyTfrrr lit I BBsEE .x.' wMB ; iJE?- i , I . ia e Br,-: X in;: HEIa, 3 um. aWMBsBk lBjo: m . iVrJ prl ..ii the morgue, BrS, -?fJ Hie h-.-ioinl rire not Q? fS 'jA nir- Vet i .H my afflrrti.tlion TBH ' ' ' ' ' ' 1 ' LW'SBbi 'k89 '''' pj sHh' qBSH -: l HHH sch..ol . ' B6jsaywfOfaffl ''i. ... IbBBSBBj BaBflBBSBsl . r, .. mug tlsfs Lion JJARTON v hlch was I i reaction re-action from a nearlj liypnotlcical self-depreciation oiice familiar. fa-miliar. There was a time when it WSB fashionable for everyone t" declare himself him-self tbe chief of Blnners Th. n followed p, very complacent feeling that "There Is so much good In lbi u rt "f us. And BO much bad In the best of us. That it hardly behooves any of us To say very much about the rest of us. ' Something needs to be an hi about the r.Ni of us, and all of us 'We need t- be reminded that we are not as good as we ; ought to be. And v.-.- are being thus remlnde.1 i'ur- renl fiction II anything bui complacent: It Is well-nigh ghastly. It leaves you w-onderinn whether if noabj's flood were to ecme agnln. there could be found any people .,rth liiMiing into the ark a I Emerson sometimes said a truth ,n Kindly, sr. penetrating that It carried I Its lesson straight in the hear Mere Is one of thoae illuminating sentences of his: "We grant that human life Is mean, hut how do we know that It Is j moan?" There- is mighty hops In the fact that I we know that the world and our own hearts need to be better, rt Is that divine discontent that make life nohle In Its possibilities. It Is the, fact that wo know that we and the World are not what the world and we should be i thut gives us reason to hope. If we find life mean, the fact that we I; now that it Is mean may become the basl of our hope that it shall not I n-ttnun n-ttnun to be so. That Is what makes life glprlouB. oo |