of life, a place out of the currents of earnest activities where souls drift and gather worthless accretions? (Text.)
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STAINS
The three ghosts on the lonesome road
Spake each to one another,
"Whence came that stain about your mouth
No lifted hand may cover?"
"From eating of forbidden fruit,
Brother, my brother."
The three ghosts on the sunless road
Spake each to one another,
"Whence came that red burn on your foot
No dust nor ash may cover?"
"I stamped a neighbor's hearth-flame out,
Brother, my brother."
The three ghosts on the windless road
Spake each to one another,
"Whence came that blood upon your hand
No other hand may cover?"
"From breaking of a woman's heart,
Brother, my brother."
"Yet on the earth clean men we walked,
Glutton and Thief and Lover;
White flesh and fair it hid our stains
That no man might discover."
"Naked the soul goes up to God,
Brother, my brother."
—Theodosia Garrison, Zion's Herald.
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STANDARDS
For measuring a base line (in calculating
a parallax) metal bars or rods are used.
These are carefully compared in the laboratory
with the standards and their lengths at
a definite temperature determined. Unfortunately,
when these rods are taken into the
field for actual use they are exposed to constantly
varying temperatures, and they expand
and contract in a very troublesome way. Various
devices have been used to eliminate the
errors thus introduced, the simplest and best
being the Woodward "ice-bar apparatus"
used by the Coast and Geodetic Survey. In
this the metal measuring-bar is supported in
a trough and completely packed in ice, and
thus maintained at the uniform temperature
of 32 degrees Fahr. With such an apparatus
a base line can be measured with an
error of only a fortieth of an inch in a mile,
or one part in two and a half million.—Charles
Lane Poor, "The Solar System."
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See Excellence is Comparative.
Standing by the Ship—See Loyalty.
Stars and Stripes, Disrespect to the—See
Patriotism, Lack of.
Stars Converting a Skeptic—See Converted
by the Comet.
Stars, Gate of the—See Gate, The, of
Stars.
State, The, More Than the Individual—See
Representative Dignity.
STATESMAN ON MISSIONS
In visiting India, Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks,
former vice-president of the United
States, took pains to aline himself with the
Christian missionary movement in that country.
In a public address he said: "I believe
the greatest influence to-day—I speak from
the standpoint of a layman but with measured
utterance—is the Christian religion. The
largest progress made in America has been
under the influence of men who have been
profound believers in the Bible and its
thoughts. And what I say of America may
also be said of other Christian nations; the
experience of one is the experience of
another. I wish to express my profound admiration—it
goes beyond mere respect—for
the workers in the great missionary field. I
have seen many a work; I have seen the rich,
abundant harvest they have gathered and
are gathering. They are evangels of a new
order of things. They are doing much to
knit the peoples together, and have earned
their right to the gratitude of mankind for
their noble self-sacrifice."
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STATESMANSHIP
The Manchester Guardian, in an editorial on the one hundredth anniversary of Gladstone's birth (December 29), had the following fine appreciation of the great statesman's international spirit:
To him the line of State boundaries
formed no limit beyond which the writ of
conscience ceased to run. He held national
duties to be as sacred as personal duties, and
judged national honor by the same standard
as personal honor. From the debate on the
opium war in 1840 to the last speech on behalf
of the dying Armenians in 1896, Gladstone
maintained this ideal in the face of
Europe. He could not always carry it
