Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 27 March 1937, Page 4

Timely Topics

REALITY. “Reality has other sides in addition. to the physical or material side. This mysterious universe in which we live comes into contact with us through many avenues, 'and not only through the avenue which we call matter,” says the Ven, V. F,- Storr in the “Evening News” of London. “Our sense of right and wrong is a fact, but you cannot deal with it in a test-tube. If God is a fact (and it is difficult to believe that no supreme mind and will exists) He cannot be weighed in scales or seen through a telescope. Our minds are not material, they do not occupy space; yet they are real. The material aspect, then, of the universe is but one aspect of it, as the wise man of science knows. For the purposes of his own special inquiry he. leaves out of account the ether aspects. In this way he simplifies his problem. He treats the uniserve as if it were a'machine, all of whose -; workings are rigidly determined. He gives us. a cross-section of reality, but he knows that it is not the whole.” is v n -v g ■ s HUMAN VALUES.

“The values of the successful man should be estimated by what he gives, and not by what he has been able to get, or is. getting. The most important incentive to accomplish in life is joy in your work, joy in its results, and the consciousness of. what these results mean for your community. To arouse and strengthen these inner forces, in young people is to me the most important task of education. Such an inner basis alone can lead to joyous striving for the highest rewards to man. The thing that should always stand in the foreground is the development of the capacity to think, judge and work independently. If you know the fundamental methods of your profession, and have learned to think and work on your own, you will find . your right way, and moreover you will be better able to deal with advancing and changing conditions: be more capable of adapting yourself to them, than the man whose education has been, based on the accumulation of detailed knowledge.”—Professor Einstein. @1 Hi S gj Words That Tell A Story SEVEN SLEEPERS. —Seven noble j youths of Ephesos, who fled, ini the Deciau. persecution, to a cave j in Mount Celion. After 230 j years they awoke, but soon died, j and their bodies were taken to! Marseilles in a lai'ge stone coffin j still shown in Victor’s Church. I Si . SI la i§ Do You Know ? (1.) Who wrote, “Had we never ioved i sae kindly”? j (2.) Who wrote, “The face of God is a rock, but the face of the rock I is fair”? j (3.) What is a ballad. (4.) What and where is Khorassan? (5.) Who was Washington Irving? (6.) Who wrote over the nom de plume, “Fiona McLeod”? Answers to the above questions appear on Page 3. S 1 M B HI Words Of Wisdom Enjoy the blessings of this day if God sends them; and the evils bear patiently and sweetly. For this day

Tale Of The Day Father, advising his son to practise early rising—“A friend of mine found a large purse of money early one morning. Son — “That’s all right; but what about the man who was up earlier and lost the money?”