Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-17

| and yet there are situations IN lne llle
of a country when such things should
| be done. No doubt spies ought to be
killed. Then the formula the greatest
good to the greatest number To this
there are several objections. Great
good to great numbers often necessl-
tates innovations. 1t contemplates a
change in the existing order of things
Now, innovations must give PAIN 10
people The innovator must take
away some of the props upon which
people have been leaning. He may
never be able to replace them. and yet
that is the way that progress in the
world is made 1t is sometimes nee
essary to rob people of cherished fall
lacies to make room for great truths.
Then there is the idea of self-sac-
ritice Self-sacrifice. no doubt, is the
highest effervescence of the human
mind. But this. like the others, pre-
supposes something else. 1t is COM
pletely efface themselves in their atti-
tude toward their children. This is
often very immoral, creating egotis-
teal, shameless, remorseless men and
women. 1t is so sometimes with wives
toward their husbands, who are often
willing to obliterate themselves. They
thus create monstrosities who go by
the name of husbands. The mere Civ
ing away to antithess is not self-sac-
ritice. 1t is not moral. Quite the con-
trary, it may be very immoral. 1t is
not right for Norma Wanna to sacrifice
herself so that the city may be saved.
The city that is willing to be saved in
this way is not worth saving.
"'There is in all of these precepts
something that is taken for granted,
root idea. This root idea, according to
my view, is worth And this idea of
worth is to be applied without limit.
And it is to be applied to all kinds
and conditions of men, black, white,
low or high. Every one of these be
ings that has the human shape has
worth to me. Value some of them
have not. but they have worth. Worth
is the total personality of the man.
Value is something of which you can
make a list. So far as value is con-
cerned some of US do not amount to
much, but we all have worth as
personality
DR.. osIer's Deathbed Records.
LII iiio le1lCol OOOh, SOuHStlS anu
IDEALS" DR.. William Osler whose adj
dress last year on Science and Immor-
tality attracted wide religious atten-
ton. writes on the way men die, in
manner that has caused considerable
religious criticism. Says DR.. Osler:
CAS- rule, man dies as he has lived,
uninfluenced practically, by thought of
a future life. / have careful records
Of about five hundred deathbeds, stud
led particularly with reference to the
modes of death and the sensations of
the dying. Ninety suffered bodily pain
and distress of some sort or another,
eleven showed mental apprehension,
two positive terror, one expressed
spiritual exaltation, and one bitter re-
morse. The great majority gave no
sign, one way or the other. Like their
birth, their death was a sleep and
forgetting. The preacher was right:
In this manner man hath no present.
hence over the beast-as one dieth, so
dieth the other
what scientific value such 'observ-
atoms may have. it is not altogether
clear" says the Presbyterian. IF, in
deed, most of DIR. Osler's patients in
the five hundred recorded cases indi-
Gated no interest in the future life, how
many of them gave DR.. Osler their con-
fidences on any subject whatsoever?
His records do not show, or he does not
make the fact known. In giving weight
to Dr. Osler's observations as to
deathbed scenes it must be remember
ed that as a famous specialist he has
been called into consultation in many
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to speak the last work of life or hope,
not to the patient, but to the family
whose own record on this
very point might be entirely different
from Dr. Osler's on the same case:
for undoubtedly the family physician
would have the close and intimate re-
with the patient, a growth
of years, that neither DR.. Osler, nor
any other specialist, no matter how
famous or experienced, could hope to
have when suddenly called into diff
cult case, to bring, not the consola-
ton of religion, but the keen, penetrat-
ing vision and skillful expedients of the
man of medicine. 1t seems to us that,
after all, DR.. Osler's records in these
five hundred cases, indicate but one
thing, namely, that when he has been
called into consultation, few of his pa
tents, however cody their lives and
spiritual their thoughts, have shared
with him their hope and belief in glor-
ious immortality. DR.. Osler's mind, at
that moment in the sick room, has been
intent on other things and so have his
patients minds while under the sub
jective domination of this great ply
sician.
Ask any GAP" that you may see,
Why the Car, with Bear behind" had |
to climb a tree.
The Yanks, God bless the Yanks, says
he,
They gave us Rocky Mountain Tea.
Mcbride & Will Drug Co.