Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-27 | Page 24 | Mightiest Miracle

t The Mightiest Miracle r 7 I By HERBERT KAUFl KAUFMAN I We get Our our fairy tales in looks not books nowadays Wizards wear blue jeans instead of star star-spang star spangled d robes I rand and nd belong to the machinists machinists' s' s union I. I Magic incantations t ons cant can't compete with ith scientific formulas s. s The astounding marvels are an facts How can you thrill a youngster with the story of The Seven League Boots Boots' s' s when his dad is in the next room telephoning to Honolulu lu I p. p I The mi microscope is a pee peephole hole to r realms of dragons dragons' and nd evil spirits more PO POy potent y lt than an any o ogre f OI or hobgoblin fancy ever devised I There are genii in laboratory jars whose whose performances m make e the Djin of the bot bottle l feel like a x j 1 dub Bub t I class dynamite All that it did cf to rock arid and anda I Moses' Moses rod rod- isn isn't in the same with a stick of was was tap a produce a trickle of water but we twentieth t century folks s blast blat up lakes ake and oil wells without out getting gettig getting get get- ting tig in the newspapers much much- less a Bib Bible We We h haven't v nt to date chal changed ged any loaves oa e into f fishes but chemistry isn't through experimenting a nd meanwhile weve we've pulled off a fe few performances almost as spectacular we burn air change wa- wa fr er into light and teach wa wax to to talk y yAnd Into Ii-Into And as for heavenly chariots ours I not 1 t only go up but come down to earth again We live in such a miraculous age that few Jew pause to i think in that th t. t more amazi amazing events happen annu annually an annually an- an nu lly than the sum total of wonders set down by the ancients tr A is somewhere the moment ent resurrecting the dead at this very mo f I Restoring sight to the blind is a hospital commonplace 4 y- y Surgical job carpenters think not nothing of mortising a sheep shin to a smashed t tibia bi or of tackIng tacking tacking tack tack- ing a silver r roof on a broken head Experts ts in the tr trade de locate locate the guilty bump ump on n an idiots idiot's cranium m tap and saw for fora a few minu minutes min min- u utes es and tinker the imbecile into a reasoning being i K- K II D Dentists no longer waste time with rambunctious rambunctious' t teeth they teeth they isol isolate te the he faulty c cable le jerk it tom mi nl the switchboard and while it iti is disconnected scon from communication n with the brain dig out live nerves as you grin f r If there is any bad blood between you and ald your your grandfathers buy a few quarts fro of husky ancestry and hire a doctor to pour it into your veins i K Mahomet wasn't such great shakes after all He owned up that he couldn't make a mountain ome me to him but we bring whole ranges of th them m from all over the world and dont don't consider the feat worth ten ten-c ten cent nt without few reels of Charlie Pickford thrown in for gorth irth a piece a Chaplin or Mary Maly good measure nl measure sure I Fairy tales are are- the leading industry o of the country j 4 In fact the government has a a fairy t tale tale library in in Washington called the patent office About bout eighty years ago one oI-e of the cl clerks who was was certain th that t the inventors had thought of which could be done resigned to to find a a place in some enterprise which promised to last f There are still people who think there is no room room roomi for improvement in their own field of en en- eavor avor That's why Thy we have so many failures V I No one has a future bigger than his belief in it Faith is is' the master force and the master faith i 1 confidence in Gods God's abili ability y to create tt b beings i g who can achieve ac anything they can t v 1 The The mightiest st miracle is human will V V V y c I All projects are feasible feC if we dare and persist Contemporary history demonstrates it i But the greater works are yet to come Tomorrow V offers more more chances than yesterday f Progress never quits Impossibilities are old fashioned fairy t tales les Of course we believe in miracles miracles they're they're our chief stock in trade Copyright 1916 by Herbert Kaufman Great Britain and all other rights reserved