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Show f DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE j ,:J BY DR. JAMES I. VAXCI3, Chairman Federal Council of Churches of America. He was up Jn years, and tho hair was gray around his brow, but he was a boy again that morning, for he was nolng a-fishlng'. You could nee. the boy in tho light of his eye, you could j hear It in the tono of his voice. You could nenso It In that general nttltuue : of llfo which sefimcd to say: "Busl-! "Busl-! ness may eo to smash; I'm going J a-fishlrtff!" I "Backward, turn backward. Oh, i Time. In thy flight." Thank God for the spirit of adventure! Whon the : boy dies clean out of a man, tt is tim'o , to bury the old corpse, lie has fln-J fln-J Ished hi course, and this world has i no more fun for him. It Is a poor world lf a man may not ' go n-fiahlng now and then. He needs I to got away from the grind, from the I sens of responsibility, from the cares j and worries of the duties which throng him. He needs to lot his tirOd I shoulders reHl, and his tired heart, too. He needs to let. his Imagination loose. It Is the creative faculty I had ai- H most .iald the recreative. How It riots H when a fish gets on tho lino! What H measurements it takes of tho size of H that sea-monstor that haa run off with H his bait! We can all understand the mental H processes of those two inebriates who paused boforo a big stuffed fish in a IH glass c:i5o at the club house; and after IH surveying It carefully, ono said to an-other: an-other: "The man who caught that fhh is a blamed liar!" IH I think there are two kinds of fibs H God may forgive, Ono In the fib the j'glrl tells about her engagement, and IH the other is tho whlto He a man tells j about the fish he caught. jH j Tho old man may not bring back IH much In his creel when ho goes fish- H ing, but ho brings back something In his soul. Tho withered grass Is green, and the flowors have begun to bloom v again, No wonder Fcter turnod to his H fellow disciples in tho hour of tholr dojection and bewilderment, and said: f ' "1 go a-flshlng." Got out your rod! f |