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Show 1 COLORS IN THE PAN Your map of the werld should Include In-clude heaven. The seal Is a reality, for It can be bought and sold. The man who exercises authority t usually resists authority. Let your desert of practical common com-mon sense have one casts ef dreams. In the concoction ef a modern novel vice seems more Important thnn vlr- Trath, passion and power are appealing ap-pealing In fiction, but they make their best appeal in life. The poor can nITord nothing but self-denial. The rich man can afford everything except self-denlnl. I'opulority Is the crown of laurel which the world puts on your head. Christ was crowned with thorns. There may be such a thing as an exaggerated altruism, but exaggerated egoism Is manifest on every corner. The vulue of an Idea does not depend de-pend upon the sincerity ef the man who expresses It, but npon Its Intrinsic Intrin-sic truth. The desire for wealth creates the petty thief and puts him in Jail. The same desire (-rentes some big thieves and seats tlicrn (m thrones of Imperial power. Christ Is still performing miracles of grnre. He will "raise you from tjie death of sin uriln th life of rlht eeusness" if juu will come to Him by repentance ami faith. The honks tluit ure Immorul nre not those that show the world Its own shame, fer the Hlble does that, hut those that lead the world to shame by J portraying It In luring colors. j |