The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-02

TO mutual friend, speaking OF the
economic and social endeavor at Llano
Colony. INDEED? And why notp
When it is a well-known fact that mill
lions of workers can work efficiently
for such corporation as the Standard
Oil, for instance. making it immensely
wealthy, cannot workers also organize
corporation and conduct it in their
own interest and cooperate together,
and thus advance their own welfare
They have to work together and to be-
have themselves when working for a
so-called soulless corporation of profit
GERS, and it certainly will be mighty
strange if they cannot do as much for
corporation with soul, Corpora
ton of their own, and thereby benefit
themselves. The Standard Oil is sue
cessful in wealth acquiring because of
competent management. intelligent di-
rection and technical efficiency, by
constructive cooperation, if you
please. Cannot working people learn
a valuable lesson from such a striking
object lesson To be successful, work.
ers too must base their cooperative
program upon the surest, most mature
and best established and successfully
demonstrated knowledge of to-day,
Whenever an undertaking is planned
on the groundwork of such demonstra-
ted knowledge it is bound to achieve
the best and most satisfactory results
whenever and wherever the plan is eff
ficiently worked.
When the blind lead the blind, or
rather when the ignorant undertake to
lead the ignorant, they are bound to
land in the ditch. All failures in CO.
operative undertakings in the past have
been due to failure on the part of
those who engaged in them to properly
understand the work they attempted to
do: knowledge can be gained only by
apDlication, by effort to learn it. Lack
of knowledge is due to the fact that
people ignore the steps by which it can
be oa'ned. Seek and ye shall find"
said Jesus of Nazareth; and one of his
followers insisted upon it that we have
to prove all things. and should hold
fast to what is wholesome and benefi-
cial all around and harms no one. IfI
people would spend half the time in
acquiring necessary knowledge and
thus prepare themselves for important
positions and work in life that they
spend in merely trying to gain PROF.
nence. it would be much better for the
world and for themselves.
knowledge is but another name, a
modern name for revelation. Facts in
nature and being. of which we have
previously been unconscious, gradual
y dawn upon our minds, in a way sim
liar as if veil over our perceptions
had been removed, and such a dawning
ot understanding, Of knowledge, of
phenomena and experience the anci-
ents called revelation. There is no
doubt that men of old who had such
experience considered themselves fav-
'rltes of the gods or God as the case
nay have been. But the Bible insists
hat God is no respecter Of persons,
plays no favorite, that the same wayl
ot getting knowledge is open to every
'ne who will seek, make the effort to
'cquire knowledge. Jesus, himself, is
y one of his historians called the
'Firstborn of many brethren"
The basis of mental science is one
# knowledge that can be verified byl
very individual; does not have to be
lnquestioningly accepted by aryone on
ne mere say-so of any self-proclt,:.ned
prophet, plenipotentiary from heaven
'r even self-announced incarnate god
within the meaning and definition as
low claimed); that knowledge has
stood the test of uncomprising analy-
rs and scientific testing, and is of,prac-
zeal value IN contributing to and adj
'ancing human welfare here and now.
The thinking ability of our con-
ciousness is so constituted that it must
leal according to experience with OBJ
ects that can. be apprehended. per-
eiyed and grasped by the senses.
through analysis and by distinguish
ng between the distinct phases of a
phenomenon, we can gain an under
landing of the connection between
hem, the causal relation existing in
heir succession to one another, and
y experimentation learn of their pro-
able utility to man.
When | was young boy, matter
f more than fiftv-f;va vaor. 900 I