TALKS WITH A KID BROTHER
"Here they come, all sorts and conditions of men," muses the clergyman on Sunday; "the doctor, the farmer, the banker. All of them have souls to save—so has that lawyer who does not go to church. I must see him to-morrow. 'What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?'"
Meanwhile the newspaper man prints the news about them all, for he keeps his finger on the pulse of the whole world for news. "No factor in modern civilization is so important as the press," says he.
And here stands a philosopher smiling upon them like a patriarch and thinking, "I alone know how all-important each one thinks himself."
Now, as a matter of fact, each one is important, just as important as he thinks. Only so are all the others! And not one of them would be of much use alone. And that is what I want you to think about once in a while after you get out into the world and begin to be absorbed in whatever is going to absorb you—the sense of proportion, and
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