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Show What Higher Duty Kan We Have?. In these days of mo lern progress and activity, act-ivity, with the struggle : or. anj existence growing grow-ing more difficult with ncreasing competition, the tendency of the people as individuals seems to be to turn their every eft! rt towards commercialism. commercial-ism. There is a growing md abundantly evident disposition to carry the co nmereial spirit into our social life. This is show i in the indifference of one to another with respect to sickness and distress. dis-tress. In the "good old daj" one sick or in need of assistance could alwavs expect to receive the best of attention. Today there is ; in apparent desire to avoid one when he is in 'need of something for which he would not be expected to pay a reasonable reason-able compensation in a financ al way. This condition in the large cities has been brought about largely by the entrance of the trained train-ed nurse, and other skilled help, a majority of the people of the large cities being financially able to pay for these additional conveniences. However, in the smallertowns, the individual must rely upon tho voluntary assistance of his neighbors, skilled help not Weing available, and if it were, a majority of the jfeople' could not secure it because of the exjpene ifljatved As a result, because,of the reluctance tqleave one's business or to miss some'occasion that mtay,mean, pleasure and a good time for us, vvc forget the sick and suffering and they are Jeft to be cared for by the immediate memoers of the individual's family-r-or gw without care. ' 'Tis a sad commentary on our civilization when a woman, who has numerous relatives and, during health, js received with smiles and exclamations excla-mations of delight into the various circles of society, so-ciety, is left to toss on a bed of pain and suffering for weeks without eun one of her society "friends" calling upon her to give her a word of cheer or comfort, or do some little dead of kindnessif kind-nessif only to show that sfce hasn't iorgotten. We have no desire to preach a sermon through those columns, but a whole lot of people who pray long prayers and attend church regularly and shw anger at any suggestionq uesiioning their sincer-ity, sincer-ity, are going to find that "f$ith without works is death." y |