THE WOULD IS GETTING DKTlMCIl. i 1 Never for a moment permit the belief that the , world is growing worse; that there is more of darkness dark-ness than of light; that men are weaker or wojhfn worse. Never believe that your lines have fallen on evil times, and that there is nothing chead but the shadows increasing to a general dark. Read these lines of Lowell: Thoughts that great hearts once broke for j Wo breathe cheaply In the common air. The dust wo trample heedlessly Throbbed once In saints and heroes rare, Who perished opening for their race New pathways to the commonplace. There if more of good In the world than there ever hns 1 een in all the ages of the past. Creation Jias only begun. The race is getting better an wiser and more kindly and more charitable Ln both benefactions and In judgments of men for" each other. , i Progress, like the surface of the sea, walks In waves. There Is an occasional trough in the waktf of a billow, but tho tide is rising. And the ft I? flood that followf will never recede. . For God Is marching oa! i