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the world at large is the same as it is for the individual. What is the happiest imaginable world, the kingdom of God, which men have dreamed of for thou sands of years? We look the wrong way if we think it is a world crowded with well-fed populations living in palaces, sailing yachts, clothed in purple and silk. These things at best are only emblems, the externals of happiness. There might be plenty to eat for every one, and yet there might be little sympathy or humanity. There are already communities where plenty exists among men of the narrowest sympathies. The outward or ma terial things, as fast as they ap pear, create a demand for certain moral and spiritual forms of well being to match them. The happy world in truth is like the happy individual. It follows the same lines of natural develop ment. Its “pattern is in heaven,” that is, it depends upon an ideal conception. It is, however, a thoroughly natural and practical ideal, proceeding out of experience. Its pattern is suggested by the plainest facts which we may ob serve touching success in this pres ent world-success in individuals, success in families and homes, the highest success yet reached in the most favored civilized communi ties, the common success already visible, toward the completion of which the democratic theory of the nation is the highest endeavor. The happy or perfect society in all its various patterns, both actual and ideal, is shown to be that in which its people are learning to live together with the utmost and heartiest expression of the life of good will to each and all. This ideal covers health, power, art, skill, intelligence and humanity. The happy people who do live merely to get, but they live to utter and to accomplish their vi sion of social well-being. To feel the circulation of the common life, to sympathize in common en deavors, to bear a hand in the realization of grand common ends, is happiness. The well-paid salesman, and the merchant in his gilded office, think that they are only buying and sell ing for themselves. Men are poor in happiness when they work, however successfully, without any good will. Man will do the Same work with a new heart, yes, and a new conscience, when to his skill and intelligence he adds, in every office and shop, the power of his humanity. The rigorous, beneficent law of the world is that a man can never be happy while he only seeks to be rich. His hap piness lies in his good will to make the whole world rich. The end and aim of all social endeavor is at last the welfare of the individual; for there can be no social happiness apart from the happiness of all the individ uals who make up human society. The Southern Israelite On the other hand, the law of the world is that no individual can ever attain his growth as a man, enjoy true happiness, or even exercise thorough rightousness, and be in ethical good health, whose highest joy is not found to be in good will. In short, in order to have life, you must share and give life. This is the welfare at once of each one and of all. It may be objected that all this is too much like a dream for an age in which armed camps, big guns and battleships are the dis tinguished marks of its civilization. But it is no mere dream that so ciety is still evolving into different and better conditions. This is the actual trend of a secular movement to be traced through hundreds of years. It is already a familiar thought that mankind, while maintaining the trappings and traditions of warfare, has sub stantially passed from a military period into a vast and growing industrial organization of the world. The average expectations of men are concerned with indus try and commerce and not, with war. The economic ncessities of mankind are drawing all nations into closer ties, and with fuller in ternational acquaintance, tend to make war intolerable. Democracy is essentially a co-operation of mankind in their efforts after happiness and welfare. The key note of democracy is good will. In dustry and commerce are as sure ly bound to be organized with reference to the welfare of all who work together, as political institutions are bound to develop in the direction of mutuality of interests and the recognition of the manhood of the individual. The push of all the social forces goes this way. In each period of human de velopment it easily becomes the fashion to do the things and take up the habitudes, which belong to the type of life which governs so ciety at that time. It is easy and natural to be a soldier when mili tary service is expected of all the men of one’s own group or nation. 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It will be equally easy and natural in a period of more mature and developed humanity to think of social and human values and to govern the conduct of really dem ocratic politics and industry by the law of good will. Good Will is the secret for individual happi ness and the secret is the same for groups and nations. All of us, today including the nations of the world, should be working for the promotion of unity, security and peace. The return for this effort will then, by the nature of things, result in the achievement of man's highest aim—Happiness. AIR CONDITIONING Residential and Commercial Cools in Summer . . . Heats in Winter • Complete Engineering • Installation • Service WE SERVICE ALL MAKES OF EQUIPMENT Dial PLaza 5-5725 Morgan Heating & Air Conditioning Co., Inc. 780 GORDON ST., S. W. ATLANTA, GA. 17