Show THC VALUE OF CULTURE There are too many people in the most civilized countries who live only In Jhe narrow sphere of their daily round of business and of material existence ex-istence They have no real culture no actual mental growth no expansion expan-sion of thought and sentiment and of those higher aspirations which distinguish distin-guish man from th lower animals There is no excuse Ifor this except perhaps among the poorest sons of toll and even they would If they would make some advance and raise themselves tn the scale of intelligence anpl progress The value and posslblli aM 5 c > j ties of culture Is thus briefly rresented in the Christian OuUook The immediate practical value of culture is that it adjusts the man not only to his business but to ids life It restores the balance so likely to be lost in the fierce competition and the perpetual strife It takes a man out of his shop his office and his library into the world of universal life Culture Cul-ture can never be the real practical downright enrichment of life which It ought to be until men have teased to think of it as a luxury Jru one sense It is just as widely open to the poor as to the rich One pair of eyes one pair of legs one open mind one honest hon-est heart a few hours of leisure a bit of country and a dozen books supply the elements of deep and genuine culture i cul-ture for any one who knows how to I use them It is not a question of privilege privi-lege it is a question of making the most of what you have It Is true that some men have far greater opportunities oppor-tunities than others but essential culture cul-ture that Is the ripeningof the soul by contract with the best that has been thought and done In the world is quite as much open to the man of limited opportunities as to the man of great opportunities The test is the desire for it and the intelligence to take It |