White Plague—See Tuberculosis.
White Robes—See Bible Customs To-*day.
"White Slaves"—See Girls, Traffic in.
WHOLE, SEEING THINGS
Our lives should be so organized and ordered as to move on at God's pace so that they will produce a whole effect, a unitary total. Some men live by jerks, showing no conviction between to-day and yesterday.
If a spark or point of flame be rapidly
swung around in a circular path it is no
longer seen as a spark or point, but as a
continuous circle. Drops of falling rain
appear to the eye as continuous slanted lines
or streams. This is due to the fact that the
motion is too rapid to enable the eye to
compass the diameter of the rain-drop, or
the spark, before it has moved the distance
of its diameter to a new position.
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WHOLENESS
A Chicago tailor displays a sign which announces
that he makes trousers at "$1.75 per
leg." Inquiry reveals the fact that altho he
uses a goose he is not foolish enough to
furnish trousers with only one leg. One
can not get trousers at his shop except their
two legs be properly sewed together and
one pays $3.50 for them. But the tailor
compels editors to read his sign.
This fable teaches that two things
even apparently complete when separate
ought to be brought together if they
are to be made practical.
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WHOLENESS OF CHARACTER
Foster, the distinguished essayist, said to
a friend one day, "There is a want of continuity
in your social character. You seem
broken into fragments." To this plain dealing
the gentleman replied good-naturedly,
"Well, I sparkle in fragments." "But," rejoined
Foster, "how much better to shine
whole, like a mirror."
As the glory of gems is realized best
when shown in a splendid necklace, so
virtues impress most when many are
combined in unity in the one character.
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WILFULNESS
Young America in feathers is almost as
bumptious and self-assertive and needs almost
as much guidance as Young America
in flannels and lawns. Tho the parents may
be as wise as Solomon, the youngster will be
foolish and headstrong; he will call and
shout when enemies are near; he will leave
the nest before his wings are ready for
service, and so place himself at the mercy
of cats and other prowlers. As soon as he
has even partial use of his wings he will
wander into a thousand dangers and draw
his devoted parents after him, for they can
not desert him, and he will not heed their
coaxing. In such cases the distracted parents
have been known to attack and beat off their
great enemy, the cat, and even to fly at man
himself, sometimes with success.—Olive
Thorne Miller, "The Bird Our Brother."
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Will, Doing God's—See Temperature.
WILL OF GOD
The following verses are by John Hay:
Not in dumb resignation, we lift our hands on high;
Not like the nerveless fatalist, content to do and die.
Our faith springs like the eagle's, who soars to meet the sun,
And cries exulting unto thee, "O Lord, Thy will be done."
When tyrant feet are trampling upon the common weal,
Thou dost not bid us bend and writhe beneath the iron heel.
In thy name we assert our right by sword or tongue or pen,
And even the headsman's ax may flash thy message unto men.
Thy will! It bids the weak be strong; it bids the strong be just;
No lips to fawn, no hand to beg, no brow to seek the dust.
Whenever man oppresses men beneath the liberal sun
O Lord, be there! Thine arm made bare, thy righteous will be done. (Text.)
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Will, Our, and God's—See Temperature.
