are sermons in stones, there must be lectures in cans. This is
a canned lecture. Let the can talk to you awhile.

You note as I shake the jar the little beans quickly settle down and
the big walnuts shake up. Not one bean asks, "Which way do I go?" Not
one walnut asks, "Which way do I go?" Each one automatically goes the
right way. The little ones go down and the big ones go up.

Note that I mix them all up and then shake. Note that they arrange
themselves just as they were before.

Suppose those objects could talk. I think I hear that littlest bean
down in the bottom saying, "Help me! Help me! I am so unfortunate and
low down. I never had no chance like them big ones up there. Help me
up."

I say, "Yes, you little bean, I'll help you." So I lift him up to the
top. See! I have boosted him. I have uplifted him.

See, the can shakes. Back to the bottom shakes the little bean. And I
hear him say, "King's ex! I slipped. Try that again and I'll stay on
top." So I put him back again on top.

The can shakes. The little bean again shakes back to the bottom. He is
too small to stay up. He cannot stand prosperity.

Then I hear Little Bean say, "Well, if I cannot get to the top, you
make them big ones come down. Give every one an equal chance."

So I say, "Yes, sir, Little Bean. Here, you big ones on top, get down.
You Big Nuts get right down there on a level with Little Bean!" And you
see I put them down.

But I shake the can, and the big ones go right back to the top with the
same shakes that send the little ones back to the bottom.

There is only one way for those objects to change their place in the
can. Lifting them up or putting them down will not do it. But change
their size!

Equality of position demands quality of size. Let the little one grow
bigger and he will shake up. Let the big one grow smaller and he will
shake down.

The Shaking Barrel of Life

O, fellow apples! We are all apples in the barrel of life on the way to
the market place of the future. It is a corduroy road and the barrel
shakes all the time.

In the barrel are big apples, little apples, freckled apples, speckled
apples, green apples, and dried apples. A bad boy on the front row
shouted the other night, "And rotten apples!"

In other words, all the people of the world are in the great barrel of
life. That barrel is shaking all the time. Every community is shaking,
every place is shaking. The offices, the shops, the stores, the