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Rh Athletes to the most strenuous efforts in their games. It moves the Indian brave to deeds of daring in the chase and on the war path. It urges great military leaders like Touissant L’Ouverture and Charles Young on to conflict and victory. It impels men along many lines of efforts and achievements, some higher, some lower, but all working toward the same aim. The possession of power may be and was intended to be a blessing. When God created man He gave him dominion over all things upon the face of the earth, what amazing results have been wrought by human power. Forests have been felled, plains put under cultivation, cities built, rail-roads stretched across continents; telegraph wires like a great net work of nerves spread over the land; steamers sent across the ocean, mountains and rivers tunneled; cables joining hemispheres laid, aeroplanes making five miles a minute speed. Submarines changing the mode of sea warfare, the dictaphone, the X-rays and the Radio; such are some of the things which human power has effected. The higher the grade of power the greater the boon of its possession. There is physical power legitimate and effective; great things