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Show WE ARE ALL DEPENDENT. f There is no such thing as absolute I independence in this world. Those who are mightiest are oftentimes the weak-! weak-! est when their power is taken away. ; J Who is more hopeless than a rich man j bereft of his inherited treasure? And even when endowed with that for j j which he has not labored his depend- I J once was greated than when in pover- j i ty. His wants were greater and it re-I re-I quired more to supply them; more ser- j j vants were needed; more desires must ; be gratified, more wishes must be pandered pan-dered to. He needed artists, sculptors and footmen, villas by the seas and in ! the mountains, and. for the gratification ' of all such desires and fancies he was , dependent upon others. Others must bow to him. drive for ' him, run errands,for him and cater to his wants. He must be fed by the gro-' cer. clothed by the tailor, housed by the builder, shaved by the barber, doctored by the physician, embalmed by the undertaker, un-dertaker, prayed over by the priest and his final home prepared by the grave-digger. grave-digger. Poor man! He pretended to independence, but for every breath he breathed he was indebted to an overruling over-ruling Providence. For the light of day he was dependent upon the sun; for the beauty of his ancestral estate upon the clouds of heaven. AVhat would he have that did not come from others? His education, the adornment of his home, the carpets on the floor, the statuary in the hall, the paintings on the wall, the silver on j ; the table, the books h reads, the mu- ! ; sic he sang how little he possessed ' that was not fashioned by other hands than his. After aI. what little reason : there is for any man to exalt himseif j above his fellows. Humility becomes the greatest as well as the least. j |
