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cataclysms swept over the land. 
It may have been something more wonderful in a way than our minds can grasp. By nature all was destroyed except caves. But that does not make them cave men. There the work stands, wrought by hands guided by minds that grasped the meaning of life, that could express swiftness and bulk, fatigue, despair, ultimate surrender, spiritual qualities, universal, eternal. 
The spiritual qualities are the things worth while - that we must make first in all of our planning. Because of the joy of the working. If the bombs come there will be nothing left to show all of our cleverness. Nothing to greatly record our esteemed civilization. 
Earlham College has reached its hundredth milestone. We want it to go on. We believe in its ideals. 

Faith

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the hand of God." He who has experienced the indwelling of the spirit of God in the heart does nor find difficult faith as the evidence of things not seen -- faith itself is evidence, and we know what we have felt. But faith as the substance of things hoped for is not so easy to accept. 
And yet, "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God," and through faith we can understand the he who framed by the word of God," and through faith we can understand that he who framed the worlds can hold them together and will not let them fall. 
Shall we then lie down in this happy faith, secure in the knowledge that the good shepherd will lead his flocks beside still waters? There is nothing in the gospels to warrant a comfortable belief like that. 
Over and over again we are told that "faith without works is dead," "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also."