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ABOUT PEOPLE.

mark of each; until we can bear to hear the truth about ourselves; until we can be brave enough to utter it about our fellow-workers.

It is a blessed fact that life compels us to work together, though in our thoughts and with our words we stand far off from each other. Is my neighbor wrong because I am right? No one yet can say he has attained unto absolute truth. The truth is absolute just so far as it is each man's duty to do only that which he believes is his present truth; but that truth may be relative to another person. Relativity of truth is the fundamental equation between our differing beliefs. Its relativeness is no excuse for not believing something, and no excuse for not wishing that others might arrive at our stand-point; while it is the reason for acknowledging the why and wherefore of another's belief, and for liberality in our thought and treatment of them; as variety is a divine law of human nature. Do we ever know each other or ourselves? Is not the best of our

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