companions, and his last words were, "I have never been hurt, because I have not hurt myself." (Text.)
(1622)
INJUSTICE
Judge Ben B. Lindsey, in The Survey, tells of a visit he made to a refined and lovely home in a large city in the East:
The people in that home were wealthy,
and undoubtedly sincere in their self-righteousness;
and in the happiness they found
in the little charities they provided for the
children of the workers in the mills and
mines near by. The fathers earned $1.50
a day, worked long hours, shared all the
hazards of their employment. My ten years'
experience in juvenile court work compelled
me to admit that the powers that made
valuable the stocks and bonds whence the
wealth of this home came would be arrayed
against any measure in the Legislature that
would do economic justice to the parents of
these children. It seemed strange to me that
our kind-hearted, wealthy family, with morning
prayers and regular church attendance,
could not see something in the teaching of
the Master beyond the kind of charity I have
mentioned. I could not help but find a real
meaning in some of the platitudes; "Equal
rights to all, special privileges to none";
"Bear ye one another's burdens"; "Lead us
not into temptation, but deliver us from
evil"; "Thy kingdom come—on earth." How
much was there of the real doing of the
word? How well was it understood?
(1623)
A California paper recently said:
Eight years in prison for stealing eight
copper cents from an Oakland store was the
punishment dealt out to George Gron, who
with a companion entered the store. Gron
pleaded guilty. This sentence is in startling
contrast to a year and a half given to J.
Dalzell Brown, who wrecked the California
Safe Deposit and Trust Company and robbed
1,200 depositors of nearly $9,000,000. Brown
was tried only on one count, and he is now
in charge of a deputy, enjoying the holidays
because of his promise to give testimony
against others in the bank wreck.
All the other indictments against Brown have
been dismist.
(1624)
See Women, Injustice to.
Innate Receptivity to Evil—See Disease,
Causes of.
INNATE, THE
As in the case of the little girl mentioned below, we have to guard, not alone against the acts of evil men, but against what is in the men themselves:
"Come on! come on!" said a gentleman to
a little girl at whom a dog had been barking
furiously. "Come on! he's quiet now."
"Ah, but," said the little girl, "the barks are in him still."
(1625)
INNER LIFE
I was lately in a grove where a number of
large sycamores were shedding their bark;
at least three layers of the bark showed
plainly, the coarse outer bark brown, but
this shed in large spots or blotches, exposing
the white inner bark, so well known in this
great tree; but this also was peeling up, and
falling here and there, and showing the clear,
green inmost bark of the tree; the outer
layers ripening, drying, dying, and falling
off, but the inmost bark strengthening and
renewing itself day by day.
But I was imprest with the fresh, wholesome look of these sycamores. Many trees of that name seem dying; not so those where the decaying outer bark was loosening and dropping, while the fresh young inner bark was coming out to take its place. I never saw healthier trees. They certainly were not hide-bound. I believe the quick dropping of the old bark gave the vigorous inner bark a chance to come out and strengthen, just as we know trials and afflictions often bring out the inner life in beauty and strength.—Franklin Noble, "Sermons in Illustration."
(1626)
Inner Strength—See Reputation and Character.
INNER VALUES
Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
—Longfellow.
(1627)
Innocence—See Circumstances.
