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78 Faath and HY~~OT
or "Three Men in a Boat," or "Hudibras," or "Mr.
Dooley's Philosophy," - and grows mellow with them,
and wise, and says: "What humor may be in the categories,
I know not; but they who wpte these things
are humorists, children of comprehension and of wisdom."
They compel us, not to laugh, but to smile.
They widen our horizon and draw out our sympathies.
In gentleness and with great pity and love, we look from
end to end of the earth and are filled-with kindly merriment
at the misfits we see.
But we know this, that humor is built on truth and
knowledge. A man who knows only a fraction of
himself and others can not have that plenitude of humor
of one who knows the whole. The humor that IS
bounded by this world is feeble beside that humor which
draws from earth and heaven, from time and eternity.
Faith is the olution and interpretation of life, the
bestower of knowledge and of wisdom more than
knowledge. Faith widens our hmited days here into
endless days, and lays bare men's souls and the secrets.
of God, and gives us that mastery of life which is needed
to laugh at fife, and shows us the relation of all things
and their harmony, and what preserves that harmony
and is admirable, and what jars with that harmony and
is laughable. Knowledge and power, wisdom and
love, these are at the roots of all right humor and ring
in every laugh that befits the soul of a man. "Credo"
-"I believe zn God the Fatker Almighdy" - can bring
smiles where tears were, and light where darkness was,
and courage and saneness of view where all was gloomy
and distorted by sadness.
"The fashion oj this world parsalh away" -and we
alone who know this are the truly light-hearted of the
world. " You shd lake none of these things with you,"
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