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Magnificence—See. MAGNIFYING A SACRED OFFICE  Increase Mather, in a sermon entitled "Be Very Courageous," tells the story: "It has been reported that a minister, preaching to the Earl of Stratford, then lord deputy of Ireland, faithfully reproved some corruptions which that governor was known to be guilty of, but at which he was displeased; and the next day, in a great passion, he sent for the minister, and began his discourse thus: 'Yesterday, when you were before me, you said such and such things.' The minister replied to him: 'You are mistaken, sir; I was not before you yesterday. I confess I am before your excellency to-day, but you were before me yesterday. You represent the kingdom; but yesterday I was made representative of the Almighty God, who is infinitely above the greatest kings on earth.' Upon that, the earl was so affected as to dismiss the minister without saying anything more to him." Here was a man who magnified his office, who spoke with authority, and not as the scribes.—Christian Register.

(1948)

Magnifying Objects—See. Mail, Handling—See. Main Objects versus Incidentals—See. Majority Not Always Right—See. Majority-rule—See ;. MAKE-BELIEVE If all difference could be atoned as easily as that described in this extract from the Popular Magazine, much bloodshed would be saved:   Not long ago a Paris journalist, who had by some criticism offended a politician, received from him the following letter:  "Sir—One does not send a challenge to a bandit of your species: one simply administers a cuff on the ears. Therefore, I hereby cuff both your ears. Be grateful to me for not having recourse to weapons.  "Yours truly, "  The journalist answered:  "My Dear Sir and Adversary—I thank you, according to your wish, for having sent me cuffs by post, instead of slaughtering me with weapons. Cuffed by post, I respond by dispatching you by post six bullets in the head. I kill you by letter. Please consider yourself dead from the first line of this epistle. "With a respectful salutation to your corpse, I am, "Very truly yours, ."   The intent to kill is present. Is not that reckoned in morals as bad as the overt act? (Text.)  (1949)    Malaria, Stamping Out—See .     Malice—See .     Malingery—See .    MAMMON WORSHIP   At Nashville, Tenn., there recently died an eccentric old lady, known in the neighborhood as a miser of the most pronounced type, tho possessing multiplied thousands. After her death the premises were searched for the money, known to be hidden in various places about the house. She had no confidence in banks, and therefore employed this method of concealing her treasures. For seventeen years she never left her home, lest some one get her money. Was ever a life more completely misspent? The joy she might have had by helping others, she missed because of her miserly disposition. She preferred to be poor—really poor—in the midst of her gold. She starved her soul that she might worship at the shrine of Mammon.—The Gospel Messenger.

(1950)

MAN A CREATOR

The fork, the knife, the graver, the spade, they are merely steel fingers, iron hands, accumulating and prolonging the energy of those members. The rudder which the hand holds, it is in effect that hand itself, enlarged, and shielded from the wash of the waves. The telescope, with its wondrous space-penetrating power, the microscope, with its clear and searching lens, in which seems almost an image of Omniscience, are yet only adjutants and servitors to the eye, that more marvelous instrument which no hand can fashion. The soul of man, invisible itself, con