The sun., 1919-03-02
BY r. PARKER sTocKBRIDGR.

, ITO one who will spend the time and
y i patience to read a Century Of
Schemes N Amerco there must como as
he closes the volume sense of awe II
he be in tho least reverent by nature; .
sensation Of hope and encouragement il
he be anything but an incurable pessimist;
. feeling Of impatience unless he be one
Of those fortunate beings to whom every
thing appears to be exactly as it ought
10 be in the best Of all possible worlds.
Here is the record Of hundred years
Of research and Of incalculable additions
TO human knowledge resulting therefrom.
1t is more than that; it is the record Of
century Of enfranchisement Of the human
spirit, of the liberation Of the human body
from the curse Of Adam. Man entered
upon the hundred years physically hedged
about by almost insuperable obstacles OF
time and space, spiritually shaclsled by
superstition and fettered by dogma; he
emerged free being, moving at will in
earth or sea or air, projecting his thoughts,
his very voice, to the uttermost ends of
the earth; he has harnessed the clements
to labor for him, the powers Of the uni
verse to grind his corn and weave his
garment. -
ii the past be the photograph of the fu-
turc, then the record Of the last century
gives promise of the solution in the cen
tury TO come of every last problem of hu-
man life and Of the relation of ourselves
to each other and to the universe; the
answer, in short, 10 the age old question
"What is TRUTH 1t is q spur to the
imagination to read Of the emergence Of
the human mind in the brief span of three
generations from darkness almost abys-
NAL; TO trace the development of human
life through the application of the new
knowledge from what was barely more
than q one dimensional state to the free
dom Of our three dimcnsional life Of
to-day.
And are we 10 stop hcref Science say,
NO" True, we are not told the precise
form and conditions OF life in what we
may fguratively call the fourth dimension,
but the vericst tyro in science can, BY
projecting his thoughts the bricfest dis
lance along the paths that have already
been marked out, visualize the dawn of
new age, the swinging open Of golden
doors now just ajar, revealing already
vistas of enchantment, dazzling in the
beauty of the promise they hold of life
So radiant with possibilities Of untram-
melted happiness and glorious freedom as
10 transcend the ancient visions of the
Celestial City itself.
One awakes from dreams Ike these pro-
voked at his own impotence perreptibly
10 hasten their realization. bat finding
consolation in the secure faith thai, even
as the knowledge gained in the hundred
YEA gone has made his own life broader,
frcer and swoeter in its possibilities than
anything his forebeers dreamed of, SO the
rev knowledge of the hundred years 10
come will Of certainty make the lives
Of those who are to come after us swectrr
and more satisfying still.
Nature does not give up her secrets
readily; neither is all truth held in
single casket. The storehouse of knowi-
edge may rather BE- iikened to huge safe
deposit. One may enter the outer door
freely. All around are great vaults; for
centuries mems minds have sought the
keys wberewith to unloc., them Not all
az these vaults have as yet been opened;
indeed, every generation discovers new
doors, unknown before, the keys to whose
locks must be forged painfully and with
pceaision and care. Within the vaults
arc safes. each with it's own dooE and
compartments, some Of them open, some
still awaiting the proper iocksmith to fit
me key. the master mind that can I'M
ravel toe mystery Of their ward and
tumbiers.
The one universal truth which the re-
search Of hundred years has established
beyond ths~ir low OF doubt Is tiissn.ere