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8 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Eatrixd at the Atlanta I'oatoffU' as Natl Mal . tar of the Secoo.i Claaa. JAMES *. GBAY, | Editor and General Manager. sußscßirnox fmici • ■ -oath. J* Three m oths _ , The Setst-Weeklr Journal !• TneM.r end Fri.lv and ta Bailed hf tba abort •st roo’es for early delivery. -- It retains nears fm« all over the wjjm. bencsth’ by leased wnrea Into owortX' ft ha« a «.af fnt diednjrntKted rnotrlbetjwe. * ■ •tronj departments of apeeltt value to the two < end the farm. *’ Arents want'd st over-r F«Wt<rfflee. I- n * r "’ M etmmtas'oa allowed. Outfit free. Write ro F «. . The only traveling rerrweirtatlvee *•*?!! are JT A Rr.-nn B F. Bolton. C. C. Coyl. M. R. Gilreath. 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Turkey Is tn revolt—also mince pie and ■feet Thanksgiv ag things. Mabody seems greatly concerned about future of President Taft. £wf«c'.ring the sugar trust oughtn't to M difficult for the government. Not to boast at all, but how could the world get on without Atlanta? Perhaps Macon will use Mercer's old •ite and buildings as p locdtion for the I capital. I Atlanta is now leading as a musical and educational point, as well as com- knereially. £ • The price of coal is rising. This may be due in part to inspection of weighing M ________________ Richmond is fortunate in not having to furnish a hat large enough to cover Atlanta's heart. The back to the country movement will Li given a considerable impetus, no doubt, during the Xmas holidays. z ' ' The up-to-date prodigal son can tell the old man on the farm that he is heed, in/ the back to the soil call. « Auburn-Vanderb’.lt game? We'll hgve to possess our souls in patience un til the aviation meet next montn. r French designers are putting out hat pins with heads three inches across. Acb' , Why not arm ’em with razors and be ' done with it? According to modern geographers ai Panama, an isthmps is a thick neck of J" land. 40 miles across and 9,000 miles deep Most Russian and Norwegian writers become crazed before they die. They take the sins of the world too much to heart » Don't try too hard to get a thing. You .» might be successful, and thereby lose •osnething better that the gods had in ■tore for you. t i The courts have decided a man may poison his land to get rid of his nelgh ' hoc’s chicken*. but they haven't ruled on eats and dogs. Now that the elections are all favor able. perhaps the Democrats will let prices come down, just to show the good effects of Democracy. Brazil has quieted down and Mexico is •practically quiet. It does seem impossi ble to have any prolonged excitement south of the United States. . It is right to be good, but the doings of the bad are so interesting! How could we get on without the dally recital of their murders, divorces, thievings, etc.? By using the" cable judiciously, Mr. Hears, succeeded in refusing a place on the New York Republican state ticket be fore he was asked. Madero, to say the least, is the most mysterious of modern Insurgents. No one has yet located him. although he has been reported wounded. Grasshoppers are eating Wisconsin’s to bacco crop. Nobody'll holler if you smoke grasshoppers instead of those in- * cook.” says Mrs. Mary Chapin,' Boston “new thought" woman. Whew! our tur- just reek with tobasco already. The mere face that former United States • Senator David B. Hill was a Democrat jpnd left a small estate will hardly hand B* nlm down in history as a great states ” man ‘ »- * But if your wife paid two prices for - the children's shoes, remember its due , to a 'lope! reflection" of the Payne-Al- Brich tariff, for which the Leather Trust is awful sorry. An eastern muck-raker has found that fe, grand operas are based on murders, sui- K cides and such. Maybe that's why our B*. western grand operas arouse that yearn- V, Ing to kill something. 3 “How should fat women be belted this MNsaon? The style seems to run to nar .now straps '—Mrs. M. Bon Pointe. Oh, 3 just use a wash board, ironing board or ■ the top of the bridge table. Fashion says that when they swear-in I' King George, next spring, "coronation Velvet" worn next the skin will be the thing Anything to make it more com fortable for these blajned °iectfic coast fr flea r A contractor says he can raise the Maine and bring her into New York un der her own steam. Probably the same fellow who raised Joe Foraker and put Mm into the Ohio campaign under - his own steam .Dr. Turnbull, father of one of the Lucky Baldwin estate claimants, says be is going armed to the teeth next time L- / ’he visits' California. It may scare ofr ■ klndapers but the thing that's eatin’ I that estate is lawyers. WHAT THE PRISON PAROLE MEANS. The meeting of the United States prison parole board in At lanta is an event of extraordinary importance. It marks the be ginning of another advance in our mastery of the problem of crime, another stride forward in intelligence as well as in hu manity. The idea embodied in this parole system will in the long run transform the prison into a school and the prisoner into a citizen. The present board is the first of its kind ever established under national law. A number of years ago the federal govern ment. realizing that the mere punishment of wrongdoers was in sufficient both for the prisoner and for society, passed what is known as “the good behavior act.” Under this act, the individ uality of the prisoner was taken into account to the extent that a prisoner who obeyed rules and showed a respect for proper authority was a different sort of man from the one who defied them ani,! that therefore he was entitled to credit, and what is us more importance, was entitled to encouragement. • This was a notable step upward. For, there was a time when a prisoner was just a prisoner and nothing more. He was not a man; he was scarcely considered a human being. But we have come «to understand, though slowly, that after all there is but little difference between the man on the outside looking in, as the old comedy song put it, and the man on the inside looking out. We have come to see further that the cure of crime is a vastly more important thing than the punishment of crime. In deed, punishment has little social significance, except as a stage in the cure. Now the parole system for federal prisoners is simply a prac tical s and cautious application of these ideas. The board in the present instance consists of Mr. Robert V. LaDow, United States superintendent of prisons, Warden Moyer, who is in the charge of the federal prison et Atlanta and Dr. A. L. Fowler, the prison physician. This board is authorized to consider applications for parole from prisoners who have served a third of their sentence, one year at least, and who have observed all the prison rules. There are other stipulations, but these are the major ones. The prisoner who is paroled remains under the supervision of the authorities until the day his original sentence expires and he is required to make monthly reports of his whereabouts and of what" he is doing. He is permitted, however, to return to his family and to a self-sustaining occupation. Just here comes one of the most important features of the entire system. No prisoner who is physically sound will be paroled until work has been se cured for him and the government itself does its utmost to find him employment. z ’The parole system is a matter of sense, not sentimentality. A man who is not fit to go back into society should not be par oled, but on the other hand a man who is capable of serving the community and of conducting himself as a citizen should certain ly not be in prison; for that is social extravagance. As Superin tendent LaDow points out, there are men in prison for offenses which must be chastened by the law, but which do not involve moral turpitude. For such cases, the parole is the logical treat ment. Under the direction of the federal government this system will be developed to its highest and most practicable form. The separate states will thus be given a luminous example which, it is to be hoped, they will profit Uy.. x ... - -- .- x „— i.— .... —. ..■■■■ ■ ENV-y SLAYETH THE SILLY ONE." Well, well,' who would have thought that The Journal’s little neighborly chat about Memphis and its census figures would ever have provfced such a fit of hysterics as the Commercial Appeal has given way to! The Commercial Appeal, be it known* is a newspaper that lives in Memphis. That is the only cause we can imagine for its having turned so red in the face when we congratulated its city on having held at least fourth position among its southern sisters. My, how the Commercial Appeal does kick up and scream! Un der date of November the twentieth it begins an editorial by saying: “There is great rejoicing and some lying in Atlanta over the Memphis census.” And then it breaks loose into a tirade on Atlanta, the like of which the most henpecked husband never heard. It says that Atlanta faked her census and padded it right under the eyelids of Uncle Sam; that there are more folks in the suburbs of Memphis than there are in Atlanta’s corporate limits and her suburbs put together; and when its tongue runs out of anything else to say it just lets forth and cusses. , Dear Madam, pray compose yourself, off there in your cen sus cellar. You might have fared far worse, and with no better temper than you now show you will doubtless fare much worse next time. We would suggest—for we are still most'kindly dis posed to you—that you break up some of those antebellum plan tations in your city limits. Turn them into small farms and use modern intensive methods of cultivation. You will then raise more cdtton in your |own and get more settlers. And finally let us remind you of Job’s saying that “wrath killeth the foolish man and envy slayeth the silly one.” YOUR OWN HEALTH AND OTHERS. There was once a time when we imagined that every child must have the measles and the whooping cough or something just as bad. A certain share of ailments, it appeared, was nat *ural if not inevitable, man being “born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward.” Happily this darkness has been dispelled. Health, we have learned, is ,the earth’s intended order; disease is the unnatural thing; and, most important of all, we have learned that many of the s<f-called common diseases are preventable. If'this truth cau be carried as a vital conviction into the daily life of every house hold, there is no telling how much stronger and happier mankind will become. To do this very thing here in Atlanta is the purpose of a se ries of publie health meetings that are to begin next Saturday evening, December the third, under the joint direction of the Federation Women’s clubs and the Fulton County Medical As sociation. The meetings will be held in the assembly room of the Carnegie Hhrary on successive Saturday evenings and they will be open to the general public. The subjects to be discussed will include the cause and cure of children’s diseases, food values, how colds are caught and how they may be avoided, how to care for the sick room and many other matters that concern the every day safety and wellbeing of us all. A more important movement has never been projected. If the people will take advantage of the opportunities it offers we shall in the end do away with epidemics of diphtheria and scarlet fever such as recently alarmed the city. These epidemics are due principally to a lack of public interest or public knowledge of known facts and duties. A mild case of contagion often causes scores of deaths.that would never be if parents realized that they are really responsible for the health of the community as well as for the health of their individual home. The big fact about these approaching lectures is that they will arouse and direct a widespread public sentiment on this sub ject. It is much to be hoped that they will be heard by large audiences from first to last. THE ATLANTA SEMIWEEKLT JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA.TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1910,. ' THE UNEXPIRED SENATORIAL TERM. The suggestion that a special primary be held to fill the un expired term of the late United States Senator Clay is unwar ranted either by reason or precedent or by the principles of popular government. In the first place, Georgia is just recovering from a glut of elections. Time and again this year politics has called the peo ple away from their business. There have been congressional elections, state elections, county elections, city elections, primaries and second primaries, crowding one upon the othel* until the public is surfeited and business cries out for a rest. The order ing of still another primary, and a special one at that, to fill this unexpired senatorial term would serve only to protract condi tions for which the state’s peace and industry have already paid dear. A primary would doubtless mean a campaign with its attendant upheavals and statewide agitation, its demands upon the citizens’ time, its cost in money and energy. Nothing is now further from the people’s need or desire. But in addition to this very practical consideration, that bears upon the interests of every man in the state, is the further fact that a primary to fill an unexpired senatorial term is wholly without precedent. Georgia is a pioneer in the practice of sub mitting to the people the choice of United Staees senators, a record of which she has cause to be proud. But never has she fallen into the folly of holding a special election simply to fill an uuexpired term of this office. She has always left that duty en tirely with the legislature. What particular reason is there to break with this custom now ? What are the motives that impel politicians of an outworn and repudiated machine to come for ward at this late day and prate of the justice and the need of calling an extra election? They might urge just as logically that,a special primary should be called to fill the unexpired term of the solicitorship of the Stone Mountain circuit or to fill any judgeship left vacant by death or resignation. t The truth is they know, as well as the people themselves do, thajt according to law and common sense an unexpired term in the senate must be filled by the legislature. If in the present instance a senator were to be elected for a full term the situation would be different and would call for a different rule. In such case, however, the time for a regular primray would have ar rived. The voters would ballot at the same poll both for mem bers of the general assembly and for a senatorial nominee and every legislator then elected would be bound to support the senatorial candidate whom the people had approved. Bilt the predent legislature was chosen in a primary that in no seilie involved the senatorial issue. On this matter they were not called upon to commit themselves. Therefore, even though a special primary should now be held, this general assembly would not, under the law, be bound to accept the nominee of • such a primary. To be sure, they would be morally impelled to accept him but the point here urged is just this: That Geor gia’s plan for the pbpular election of United States senators con sists in naming concurrently the senator and the legislature, which in the end must elect him. The federal constitution pro vides that senators must be elected by the legislatures of the respective states. In Georgia we have got around this difficulty by holding the Dentocratic primary for the state legislature anu for the United States senatorship at the same time. But under this very plan it is obvious that if a vacancy in the senatorship arises, it must be filled temporarily by the legislature then in office dintil the time for another regular primary comes around when the people themselves will again nominate for a full sena torial term. ■ These facts and reasons are too well known by the public of Georgia to call for more than a restatement. The truth is this present agitation for a special primary, reversal of all usage and practical sense, is simply the scheme j of the old political ring, whose slate was smashed in 1906 and 1910, to muddy the water as much as they can in hopes that their leader will float to the top. v They want to bring as many candidates as possible into the field hnd then by concentrating their own strength elect a man who is at once the creature and the engineer of a reactionary political machine. They know well enough that the principle of popular elec tions for United States senators is not in any sense here involved But what an amazing zeal for popular electipns they have sud denly developed! To be sure, what they have to say has no logical bearing on this unexpired senatorial term, but then they are so brimful of love for the people, so aflame with devotion to popular government that they simply can’t contain themselves. Satan still quotes Scripture when it serves his designs. But the people are not fooled by this froth and cant. When ever owls come to love the sunlight and m.olgg live in treetops and wfilves take to guarding sheep, then the people will listen to this old gang’s discourse on popular rights. The state Democratic executive committee should certainly not call a special primary to fill an unexpired senatorial term, for it would be p’aying into the hands of repudiated politicians whose sole desire is to further their personal ends. HATS AND BALDNESS. Eminent doctors are seriously questioning the popular idea that by going bareheaded one may prevent, or at least postpone baldness. They suspect, indeed, that the present fad for taking the sun and the wind without any headgear whatsoever may be a straight road to becoming like Samson after Delilah had fin ished with him. , This theory opens a most interesting field of speculation. Who knows but that it may fetch back from oblivion the once cherished nightcap? How times do change! When Mr. Pickwick was surprised by the lady in the yellow curl papers, his chief source of embarrassment lay in the ’ fact that he did not have time to pull on his night cap, and there he squirmed on the bol ster, praying that the bed coverings would swallow him. For a gentleman to be taken unawares without that decent head covering—why, nothing could then have been more Humiliating. The truth is, too, that the nightcap has its comforts as well as its one-time proprieties.' We abandoned it because of a foolish fear that it would make our hair fall out. Now that the doctors have reassured us, we shall probably revive it. Going bareheaded is a practice most devoutly to be wished at certain times and among women at all times; such at least would be the view of matter-of-fact husbands. But it is good to know that we may, if we wish, wear a hat or a cap without a hairless destiny staring us in the face. Why, however, should a mortal look with such dread upon baldness? If there were no baldheaded gentlemen what would become of the front row at the theater? There was a time when a man to be seemly had to wear a wig flowed below his shoulders, and whiskers were once considered as necessary as eye lashes or thumbs. Undoubtedly they were so to our early for bears, battling With winter and brambles and wild beasts. But as civilization with its protecting influences advanced, these chin* thickets became needless. Some scientists think that eventually they will vanish from the human-race just as the sixth toe van ished millions of years ago. Is it, then, unthinkable that the time may come when all men will be baldheaded, hats or no hats? Society will to be sure be a droll looking aggregation, but then nobody will know it ■ . - . Too Little Religious Capital for the Amount of Religious Business By Bishop Warren A. Candler <■ 'the worship of self is such a subtle thing that men often fall into it when they least suspect it. A former generation was profoundly moved with matters of personal experi ence in religion, and many lost sight of every thing else but the saving of their own souls. The religious people of the present generation are in danger of go ing to the opposite extreme, of making pothlng of their own salvation while busying themselves unceasingly about the reformation of others. We hear nyich talk of “my mission", “my life work”, and such like. All these phrases have the sound of great unselfishness, but they may cover, and often do cover, the most perilous vanity and self-assertion. What one conceives to be his ''mission” may easily acquire in his esteem a cer tain tangible value, and become a kind of property in which his position and suc cess is Involved.' He presses it with eagerness because It’s triumph enhances his own importance and it's failure brings discredit upon him'. He seeks to get hold of other minds, not because he feels a disinterested concern for their well being, but oecauce be desires to acquire dominion*over souls. He aims at con quests for his own glory, although he really believes that such "benevolent as similation" will be for the good of those whom he annexes to his cause. He falls into a sort of proselytising Pharisaism like that of those whom Jesus condemn ed when he said, “Ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, a>d when he Is made ye make him two fold more the child othell than yourselves”, boubt less the Pharisees, whom the Master thus sharply denounced, felt that they were benefiting and blessing the prpselytes whom they made; but they really occu pied a selfish relation to the propagation of the Aith which they professed, and they assumed airs of superiority in moral character over those whom - they prose lyted in no wlsq justified by the facts in the case. They often went on their “missions” to save better men than them selves. The same thing may be seen in our Own country. There are men and women among us who maka"'tours among what they call “the poor” and “the slums", vainly imagining that they are doing re ligious work, when in truth they are further from God than the unfortunate people to whoqj they go. A of “society", bavins’ wearied herself with the spectacles of the playhot/ae and sur feited herself with the Inanities of •bridge parties” and the like," seeks to vary her programme by doing some “religious work"; but can any one who knows any thing of the meaning of the New Testa ment imagine for a moment that she has the smallest qualification for the “mis sion” which she thus sets about? What does she ki\ow of the law of self-sacrifice and »the mind of Christ? Wherein is she superior in piety to the poor people upon whom she intrudes her superserviceable and gratuitous attentions? They have the vices of poverty claß in cheap garb, while she has the vices of bpulence robed in costly apparel; but beneath raiment and all outward appearance beat hearts equal ly estranged from God. If there be a difference between the visitor and the visited in point of piety, it.Js probably In favour of the latter. may retuzn from her-jrounds and report to her “church circle” all she has seen and done; but she has not seen the poor's deepest need, and if she had seen it she could have done nothing to relieve the desperate want. She has seen some of the bodily suffering of the poor, but not their spiritual wants. Never suffering herself, she fancies that suffering is the worst possible thing In the universe, and that, if bodies be warmed and fed, souls may be left chilled and starved without serious hurt. Why should she think otherwise? Is not her own soul utterly destitute? Her notion is that if the poor were as well clothed, housed, and fed as she is, they would need nothing more; for if that did not gain for them en trance into the kingdom of heaven it would at least admit them to “society”, which is better than the kingdom of heaven. She goes about getting the poor some clothes, substituting raiment for re ligion and costume for conversion. Os course, she does not mean to make of the poor such arch-angels as those who fill her set; that grade of salvation by clothes comes too high; she will make such angels as half-worn clothes of last season's fashions can make. All this she calls “practical Christianity”. Now, I happen to know that many of the j>oor resent this sort of thing, and there would be little hope of them if they were so lost to self-respect that •they did not resent it. Whatever bodily suffering may. abound among certain classes, their heart-pains are thousand fold more poignant. They want broth erly and sisterly recognition and sym pathy, and, above all, they want God’s NOW FOR THE REAL FIGHT. It would be hard to overgauge the educational value of the recent boll weevil congress that was held in Atlanta under the direction of the Chamber of Commerce. Business men as well as farmers were aroused to the importance of preparing pow for war against this destructive pest which will reach Georgia soil by 1912 and which, if unchecked, will mean an annual loss o> many million dollars in cotton. The state is particularly fortunate in already possessing competent agencies whereby the popular interest thus bestirred can be turned to definite account. These agencies are principally the department of entomology, reinforced by the department of agriculture and the state Agricultural college. The Farmers’ Ed ucational and Co-operative Union will likewise prove a potent ally in the campaign that will at once begin. With a thoroughly awakened public sentiment and with these scientifically trained workers, there is every reason to ex pect that Georgia can cope with fine results against her cotton's most dangerous foe. It is essential, however, that the three state institutions just mentioned should be provided with adequate appropriations for carrying on this special work. In a battle that means so much to the people as a whole, they should not be hampered by lack of funds; and one of the best services that the individual citizen can now render is to impress upon his county s representative in the legislature the need of liberal appropri ations in this respect. The state department of entomology, under Mr. E. L. Wor sham has been vigorously at work for? at least five years past -on the boll weevil'problem. So has the department of agriculture under Commissioner Hudson and the state agricultural college under Dr. Andrew M. Soule. These institutions, if supported from the state’s treasury as they should be, and if backed by public cooperation, as they doubtless will be, are nmplylable to carry the campaign against the boll weevil to a most successful end. They are thoroughly familiar with conditions that are pe culiar to Georgia. They will prove skilful and, in every sense, worthy captains of the battle line. The peril of the boll weevil cannot be overestimated. Geor gia’s agricultural fate for years to come hangs upon the prompt ness and vigor with which she makes ready against its invasion. Yet, the methods that will be employed to resist this pest will immeasurably advance and enrich our farming interests. • Inten sive methods of cultivation have always been desirable; now they are inescapable if the weevil is to be withstood. We may there fore be comforted that out of this approaching ill good will come. life in their souls. They have sorrows which only divine grace can soothe and sins which only Christ's power can re lieve. They wairt what Jere Macaulay carried to Water Street and Sam Hadley carried to the Bowery; but such blessed ministries can not be fulfilled by any who do not know for themselvus the agonies of unfoi given sin ana wn of assured pardon. It is idle ror dainty, unredeemed, and unrepentant children of fashion and folly to go to , such classes with bundles of old clothes and baskets of sandwiches. “Map does not live by bread alone,” nor by bread chiefly. In all herein said it Is not Intended to discourage mission work, but to point out the qualifications that are indis pensable for such work and the spirit wound more than it heals. Moreover, this paper is designed to warn all Christian workers of every sort against a danger which easily besets them, viz., the dan ger of magnifying their “mission” above their own personal piety. On one occasion the disciples of Jesus were sent on a most important mission and for its fulfillment tney reu?‘T«4 extraordinary powers. They were qultz successful, and when they returned they exultantly reported to Him, “Master, the very devils were subject to us.’* Jesus replied. “Rejoice not that the devils are subject to you, but that your names are written in heaven.” " Thus he taught them that being is more than doing, that one's life is more than one's work, that our salvation must outrank our mission, that our relation to God must go before our efforts for others. Canon Mozley, in one of his great "Uni versity Sermons” preached at the Uni versity of Oxford. England, has put |his important matter most clearly and forci bly. He says, "Those who feel that they have a mission may convert It into a snare for themselves. Doubtless, if ac cording to St. Paul, 'he who desireth the office of a bishop desireth a good work’, so one who has a mission to do some particular work has a good office given hirrv Still, where life is too prominently regarded in this light, the view of life as a mission tends to supersede the view of it as a trial and probation. The mis sion becomes the final cause of life. The generality may be born to do their duty in that station of life in which it has pleased God to call them; but in the case -of a person with a mission, th© mission overtops and puts into the shade the gen eral purpose of life as probation, the generality are sent into the world for their own moral benefit, but the person with a mission is apt to feel that he is sent into the world for the benefit of the world itself. The outward object with its display and machinery is apt to reduce to a kind of insignificance the inward indi vidual life. It appears small and com monplace. The success of one’s own in dividual probation is assumed In embark ing upon the' larger work, as the less is included in the greater; it figures as a mere preliminary matter, which may ba taken for granted; it appears an easy thing to save one's own soul,—a thing, so to speak, for any body to do”. In these words the learned Regius Professor of Di vinity at Oxford put his finger on a weak spot in much of present-day religion. We have a vast deal of busy-body Chris tianity, bent on all sorts of “missions”, shallow and superficial in its own noisy and fussy about its work, with blazing zeal, without knowledge God, and destitute of any real faith and love. It burns with an unholy flame, and would call down fire from heaven upon all who do not fall in with its schemes and plans. Its test for the piety of all men is, do they adopt my program? And it has no test for its own piety, for it never suspects that its own religion needs testing. It has many conventions and movements, and it rigs up a vast deal of complicated machinery guarantee to turn out a millenium in an Incredibly short time provided all hands will lay down every thing else and operate It ac cording to directions. k It is time to sound a different note. This age needs to learn anew what Jesus meant when He said. “The kingdom of God is within you.” It is undertaking in many places to do much religious busi ness on too small a capital of religious experience. That road leads to spiritual bankruptcy, and a good many of our lat ter-day saints have already gone to wreck by following It. Solemn are the words of the Master “Many will say to me In that day. Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy aamo have cast out devils? and tn thy nami done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you.” What ever else a man may undertake, he must first of ail keep himself right with God. One’s life is more than one’i mission.
