The Archive · 1924

An Emperor's Maxim

'One of the Emperors in China's golden days advised: "Educate your sons and younger brothers in order' to tinder them from doing wrong." Alas, Education can -give no such assurance. If sought as an end in, itself it, will prove a stumbling block, Only as it serves to build man in his entire nature and in due proportion can it bring a blessing Walter Page wrote in one of hi sparkling letters, concerning the wisdom needed in a critical day The learned men learn things last, lot al ily docs knowledge tyrannize over the mind that takes for wisdom, (3) But'T am bound to focus tone mote field of illustration, because it came first to my mind as thought for Armistice Day. There the blessing of Victory, sought 20, nestly and passionately 10 years

gave their best, and the you obtain which whole nations Fatherhood of today hae been gravely crippled. Memorials are ever before us—here in the Church, out there on the Bund, in every, self-respecting place, to remind as of the awful price of the passion of Victory.

Victory then appeared as a very angel of pence, rebuking the arrogance and greed of men, uplifting the cause of the poor and needy, breaking the armaments of fear and destroying the lust, of conquest. "Honour long absent" was to "come to earth again," and Justice was to have a larger dominion than ever, These were the dreams in the hearts of men who laid aside the world's prizes to join in the fight for vie-tory.

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