ate them if anyone puts up the money for
the job.

We do not build pyramids or hanging gardens because they serve no useful
purpose.

The Panama Canal is a greater wonder and is a most practical benefit to
mankind. It doubles our navy; it enables us to move supplies of every
kind from one coast to the other quickly and less expensively.

It shortens the world's highway between the oceans and helps every human
being.

Balboa's name will live in geographies as the discoverer of the Pacific
Ocean, but Goethals' name will be remembered as the man who made most
use of that discovery for the benefit of mankind.

The shades of Balboa and De Lesseps likely stalk around Panama at
midnight and rub their eyes in amazement.

TODAY

The One Time in Our Keeping

As I walk on the old Santa Fe Trail each morning through Penn Valley
Park in Kansas City, the marks of time are plainly visible.

Erosion of water and wind have bared the sedimentary rocks and exposed
the layers in well defined pages so I may study this great rock-paged
geology book, and indeed it's a pleasure to me.

Back of all is the grand plan of the Universe of which this earth is an
atom. That plan is ruled by a Divine law and power.

For you or me to take a fragment of truth and attempt to pass it as a
definite science, a complete religion or all truth, is an assumption
which these records of countless ages frown upon as a hopeless, bootless
task.

All science has some truth; all creeds, sects, isms and cults likewise
have truth, but no branch or group possesses all truth.

My fossil fish on the wall wiggled his tail thousands of years ago,
very likely millions of years.

He lived and died in accordance with the plan of the Creator of the
Universe and you are an atom and I am an atom in that Universe and
governed by the power that gave life and crushed to death that fossil
fish.

Verily we presume when we say, "we have all the truth; think as we do or
you are lost."

The old world has not told its full story. The Universe of which this
world is a part is still a deeper mystery.

We shall not know all truth until the great revealing time.

We cannot change the pages of the millions of years gone by. We can do
very little to change the pages of the millions of years to come. What
little we can do, we can only do TODAY.

Today is yours and mine; let's do the best we can with our possession in
act and thought and word.

The sun goes down