16 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A HEWS PAPER FOR TIIB HOME Pounded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TKLEGItAI'II PRINTING CO., Telecraph BulhUnff. Federal Square. K. J. STACK POLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OTSTER, Business &lanaicr. Gt-S M, STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. A Member American Newspaper Pub ® Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Finley, Fifth Ave nue Building. New People's Gas Ruild- — _ ing, Chicago, 111. Bntered at the Post Office In Harrla burgr. Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, te'h cents a week; by mall, J5.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 23 A' complain o' want o' siller; nane o' want o' sense. WINDOW BOXES IT is about.time to bo thinking of repainting tho window and porch boxes which added so much to the beauty of Harrisburg last year. Get them out early, you who respond ed so generously to the TELE GRAPH'S plea for flower planting, and thereby encourage your neighbor whose porch and windows were bare last summer to go and do likewise. Flowers and growing things about a house add dollars to its valuation from a sales point of view and great ly improve its appearance. They are to the front of a home what a well fitting gown of attractive pattern is to a woman. Florists say that already there is a brisk demand for window box quotations. Let's all co-operate in making Harrisburg a real Flower City during the coming months when we spend so much of our time out of doors. MR. ITTNER'S ABILITY WHATEVER arguments may be brought to bear In the school board controversy over the se lection of an architect for the new buiidings contemplated, the ability of William B. Ittner, the St. Louis man chosen by the special committee of the board to do the work, cannot be ques tioned. The endorsements the Mu nicipal league is receiving from noted architects and others qualified to speak preclude the possibility of error In his selection on that score. Those who favor a local architect will have to find other reasons for their views The Municipal league is giving the people of the city some very pertinent and useful information, especially in view of reports that have been pri vately circulated reflecting on the wis dom of the special committee's rec ommendation. HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF HISTORY appears to be repeating in Russia. The Czar and his consort are in prison, the revo lutionary government is in complete control, despite occasional rumors via Berlin to the contrary, and plans for the prosecution of the war appear to be well in hand. This somewhat corresponds to the situation in which France found her self at the close the eighteenth cen tury, when the nation, in the face of an invading foe, overthrew the king, put him to death and then turned about and, under the direction of the famous Carnot, so reorganized the more or less demoralized military that the army came through the trial triumphant and France was saved both v from foreign aggression and royal oppression. All that Russia needs is a Carnot and such a Committee of Safety as he had at his elbow, and there are indi cations that it is not lacking in either. THE LABOR DEPARTMENT IT is to be hoped that the Appro priations Committees will not have to cut as deeply into the budget of the State Department of lAbor and Industry as reports from Capitol Hill might indicate. This branch of the State government is of vast and growing importance. Its in fluence for good is only to be under stood after a careful and painstaking study of all that it has done in the past year or two, account of which has not appeared extensively in print, and much of it of a nature that pre cludes the possibility of setting it forth in the annual reports of Com missioner Jackson or his assistants. In the mediation of labor troubles alone it has saved the people of the Commonwealth many hundreds of thousands of dollars in wages and de lay and vexation in business. It is easy to set forth the number of strikes that the State's mediators have set tled, but It is impossible to outline in a public way the number of labor disputes that have been brought to a conclusion before they reached an acute stage, and this has been one of the mo3t important phases of the department's work. Another immensely useful service the department is performing is through the instrumentality of its Bureau of Employment. It has been said that tho bureau's ac tivities are limited by reason of the fact that labor is well employed at this time and, therefore, for tho present no increase of appro priation is necessary in this direction. This is not a proper conclusion. The Bureau of Employment works both ways. It not only finds a job for the jobless man. but it locates a man for FRIDAY EVENING, HARBIBBURO TELEGRAPH MARCH.23/1917. the manleas job. In thia way it servea both employer and employe, both cap ital and labor. It may be capital's turn just now. but nobody Knows when labor will need'the bureau and need it badly. Indeed, the number of applications for work received and the success of the bureau in finding employment for a very large majority of these seekers is ample proof that even now, with prosperity at flood tide, there is ample reason for in creasing its possibilities for service. These are only two of the very many lines of activity in which Com missioner Jackson and his assistants are engaged and all of them have their uses in the industrial life of to day. Furthermore, the department is doing a bigger work than that of New York State at a little more than a third the expense. It should be of fered every encouragement the legis lature finds possible to give. NEW THIRD-CLASS CITY BILL SENATOR BEIDLEMAN'S new third-class city bill, which would place the government of Harris burg and cities like it largely in the hands of an unpaid council of one member from each ward, repeal the present nonpartisan clause and restore the veto power to the mayor, is an interesting piece of legislation, both from the manner in which the subject is treated and from the fact that it is. in addition, a most complete codi fication of all laws relating to munici palities of the third class in Pennsyl vania. If it doep nothing more it will provide adequate charter-making ma terial when the Beidleman home rule constitutional amendment is finally approved. Whether the people are prepared to return to the old type of ward repre sentation in Council is a question, but in any case Senator Beidleman's bill Is . "I'.v.-.V.ViV/ the result of popular dissatisfaction with the Clark act and a desire for change on the part of a largo majority of the taxpayers. Undoubtedly, as the Senator has said, the salary system for councilmen has resulted in a disgraceful scramble for office on the part of those who in view nothing more than the money they hope to get. The result has been inefficiency in government and a gradual letting down of public interest in municipal affairs. Perhaps the very worst feature of the Clark act is that the commissioners are a law unto themselves; that they are both a legislative and an administering body, with nobody to say them nay. There has been log-rolling and des perate efforts to please this or that class of voters at the expense of the city as a whole. The law's nonparti san clause has resulted In a condition where politics play a larger part in city government than ever. There lias never been a moment since the enact ment of the Clark law when either Republicans or Democrats forgot party affiliation in the selection of councilmen. Party nominations cer tainly could be no worse than this nonpartisan failure and under proper conditions might result in improve ment. The inference to be drawn from the provisions of the Beidieman bill is that under its Mis\'j3 the city depart ments would bo run by superintend ents selected by Council on the ground of their fitness for the work. This newspaper has observed the operations of the city managership elsewhere. It has worked well. It ought to be given a trial here. Whether ®r not this would be possible under the provisions of the Beidieman measure is not clear, but there appears to be no clause that would forbid the hiring of a manager, if Council were so inclined. There are many features of the bill worthy of consideration and it shows much thought and careful preparation. It is gratifying to those in Harrisburg who supported him to note the in terest Senator Beidieman is displaying In the important affairs of the city and that all his efforts have been in the direction of improving conditions. TWO GOOD BILLS A BILL has recently been intro duced in the State Legislature which was prepared by the State Affairs committee of the Scranton Board oT Trade, providing for a single collector of taxes in the second and third-class cities and the boroughs and incorporated townships of the Com monwealth. The purpose is to do away with the multitude of receivers of taxes, thus making the payment of taxes more convenient for the tax payer, and, at the same time, reducing the cost of this branch of the public service. There is a general unanimity of opinion that this is a greatly desired reform in the ta> collecting methods, and while Ilarrlsburg has worked out the problem in a comparatively satis factory way, there is no reason why local legislators should not vote for the measure. In this class of legislation, also, is the Beidieman county receiver of taxes bill, which also should be reported out promptly and passed. CONSISTENCY SATS Girard in his admirable col umn in the Philadelphia Public Ledger: California fruit growers adver tise their oranges in Philadelphia magazines. No Pennsylvania farmer has .anything to advertise in a San Francisco magazine. That differ ence is one sequel of the way in which California and Pennsylvania foster education for farmers. In one year California spends on Its agricultural school more than six times as much as Pennsylvania gives to the Pennsylvania State College for agricultural purposes. Yet Pennsylvania is richer and more populous than California. We give generously in a hundred doubtful di rections and deny State College the means of providing us with what everybody agrees is a vital need— greater efficiency In farming. Consistent, is It not? STREETS NOW that spring is upon us, may we not expect that some atten tion will be given to the city streets? The condition of unrepair In which practically every important thoroughfare finds itself to-day is a blot on the city and is not only an — ■ II I. -I III^ The Days of Real Spor By BRIGGS I V j nfyy ' HOLDOUT '"'V eyesore to the citizen who takes pride in the progessiveness and efficiency of his home city, but is considerably of a body sore to the travelers who are compelled to ride over the uneven sur faces to which no attention has been given for many months. The eyes of the people are on Commissioner Lynch at this stage. Labor Notes There are now five states with wom en legislators. This country has 3SO piano factor ies in operation. Nurses in every State hospital in California will be organized. Of 1,732,612 people engaged in ag riculture in Bulgaria 87,406 are wom en. Women government workers In England number 133,000. Sweden employs over 30,000 wom en in her clothing and textile indus tries. Railway carmen employed on Can adian government railroads get a min imum of 40 cents an hour. Higher pay and more food were re cently demanded by 17.000 workmen i at the Krupp works at Essen. City fire fighters at Victoria. B. C., demand the inauguration of the two platoon system. Georgetown (Texas) carpenters have increased wages from 50 to 05 cents an hour. A Slate council of carpenters, repre senting about 3,000 workers, has been organized in Montana. Its purposes are: To establish the State-wide eight-hour day, minimum wage scale, furnish information regarding condi tions of employment and promote such legislation as is beneficial to workers. Not Used to Luxury (From the New York World.) It was much against his will that Wiggie went along when John D. Rockerfeller, Jr., and his family mov ed into the senior John's one million dollar house on Kyk-Uit Hill, Pocan tico Hills, Tarrytown, recently. Wig gie is a small, black Scotch terrier, pet of the oil man's grandchildren. Wiggie is fond of home life, but does not go in much for great houses, in consequence of which the new home proved a lonesome one. He shied at the Temple of Love, with its Aphrodite: looked askance at the Rainbow Pool, and strayed far from the Sunken Gardens. There was no charm for him outdoors, and when he went into the house ho would get lost —straying from room to room. The climax came when the massive organ in the music room began to peal out music. Wiggie stood it as long as he could, made a succession of yelps which sounded like the name of the hill on which the house is situat ed, and darted out through the kitch en door. Then, he strayed out into Tarrytown, where he took up home life with young Raymond Page. The Rockefeller children bemoaned the loss of Wiggie, so their father of fered a reward of $lO and the dog was returned. At the Rockefeller home no one would music would be tried on the dog again. Zionists and America (From the Maccabean, official mag azine of the Federation of American Zionists.) The Jews of America share the in terests of the American people, of whom they are an integral part. Our love and loyalty go out to America not only because it has been a haven of refuge for our oppressed people, but because we have derived inspira tion and strength from the ideals and enthusiasms that are America's con tribution to modern civilization. The democratic education we have receiv ed hero has strengthened our own movement for self-emancipation, for we have felt that American ideals gave their sanction to the efforts of any people to secure Itself against the futuj-e by making such sacrifices to-day as would render that future avorthy. The Zionist movement runs parallel with the idealism of this land and is in fact a natural growth and the normal consequence of thinking in terms of democratic American ideal ism. In this land we have the oppor tunity for the first time in our history to realize our national hopes, living in a friendly environment. It is a source of Jewish gratification to find ourselves In perfect accord with the ideals and the Interests of the Ameri can people. We shall be among the first to come forward prepared to make our personal sacrifices for American national interests should the efforts of the President to avert war be unsuccessful, just as we have done In the past In moments of national crises. fdltic* U By the Ex-Committeeman According to stories which have come to the Capitol, the folks back home in certain Democratic communi ties are somewhat inclined to be crit ical of the attitude of various Demo cratic members in the Legislature, es pecially in the matter of the support of the President, and to feel that the Democrats should have been more active than they were In the House. The debate attending the Walter resolution about a week ago has been the theme of much discussion and many copies of the Legislative Journal showing the exact statements made have been sent out from, the "HIU" in reply to requests from men all over the state. These statements and the record of the vote have been coming back to plague certain Democrats. In Reading there have been reso lutions presented at meetings denounc ing tiro position taken by some of the Berks county members in the Walter resolution discussion. —A meeting of the Democratic ring, masters committee will be held here soon to put some ginger into the Democratic members who have been making a sorry spectacle of them selves. Some of the ringmasters are said to feel that the minority has played a part so totally out of keeping with what might be expected that they want the wandering sheep corralled and told what to do. The Democratic legislative campaign has been a series of failures. —The Democrats have not. even de manded action on their much adver tised measures and the fact that the ringmasters were caught at some bipartisan politics in handling their corrupt practices act has not been overlooked. -—An interesting review of Luzerne county politics sent from Wilkes-Barre says: "While harmony prevails among Republicans, affairs in the Democratic ranks promise to be stirred up with the return of William R. McLean, the Democratic state chairman, from the border, where he has been for several months. McLean and his followers will seek to retain control of the county Democratic organization, but Judge John M. Garman, who bosses the other county wing of Democracy, is already preparing to win over the county organization. Garman accom plished this four years ago when the Garman candidates for prothonotary and clerk of the courts were selected. These candidates, vested with the power of choosing a chairman, forgot all about McLean and named A. W. Betterly. the Garman selection, for the office. Judge Garman is planning to do the same thing this year. He will have his candidates in the field against the McLean entries, and this contest is apt to become very lively. The Democrats have control of most of the county officers. McLean is credited with the glory of these victories and a defeat at tht! hands of Garman would be considered a stumbling block for McLean as county chairman and also as chairman of the state." —The Philadelphia Record to-day says that there is going to be a grand old row In the House of Representa tives next Monday night when the Mc- Niehol men will endeavor to have the bill to take the police out of politics put back to the calendar. —The latest Democratic move, the investigation of the election of Con gressman Bleakley, has been under taken by the United States grand jury at Erie. The ringmaster is E. Lowry Humes, United States district attor ney. —Pittsburgh people have started to impeach magistrates as the result of the vice probes. —Considerable interest has been aroused at the Capitol by the attack made on the proposed bond issue for roads by State Treasurer Young in a speech at Altoona. "I am very earn estly opposed to a bond issue for high way improvement," said Mr. Young, addressing the chamber of commerce at luncheon yesterday, "because I re gard the state revenues as ample to provide all the money that can be legitimately expended each year for this purpose. In fact. I don't know of any purpose for which bonds would be necessary, unless it would be for the improvement of the ports at Lake Erie and on the Ohio and Delaware rivers. If we improve these ports of exit and entry, Pennsylvania can be made the center of the commercial activities of the world. If only men of vision could see the possibilities of this Commonwealth, every State in the Union and the world at large could be made tributary to Pennsylvania." I , BELGIUM'S IN FA NT SACRIFICE THE children of Belgium share in the martyrdom of their par ents. They aro like the young boys and girls, baptized in water and in blood, who stood with the early Christians in the arena, before the callous eyes of Rome. They are feeble with privation and sad with premature grief. Pope Bene dict. has begged the children of the United States to keep alive 1 *, million of the little unfortunates by giving them a cup of milk or chocolate and a larded biscuit once a day. It Is not too much to ask of prosperous Amer ica which lias thriven on the calam ities of Europe; but the asking is a revelation of shame. On Belgium's vast storehouses of grain Germany fattened for a year. On Belgium's harvests, garnered, but not shared by Belgians, Germany feeds Flowers It is hard for me to understand peo ple who have even one foot of land and who do not raise any flowers. Just as a back yard full of rubbish always seems to me to suggest a rub bishy soul, and a barren back yard a more or less desolate character, so a back yard running over with flowers seems to cry out that in this house dwell beauty and peace and content. For myself, I have already planned out just where the pansies are to be thus summer, and the hollyhocks, and the sweet-williams, and the nastur tims, and the roses. 1 get out at'ter breakfast and by nine o'clock the sweat is pouring down every degree of my longitude. 1 rejoice. I say to my soul, "Surely, soul, every drop of this sweat that rolls out of your system lengthens your life." I feel my neck getting sunburned, and I do not care. It is as if health were being poured into me from the great source of all health, as power is poured into a storage battery. And Sundays, after church, I take a book and lie down In the midst of my flowers, and look at the marvel of their coloring*, and wonder how it is that out of the little black seeds I planted could have come such yellows and reds and purples and greens. And people go by and see me stretched there, and I hear them tell each other that I am a fellow from New York who is sort of lazy, and who must have married a rich wife, as he never does any work. And then I turn over and listen to the much more satisfying conversa tion of the flowers, who bend their heads and whisper in my ear: "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; And yet I say unto you. That even Solomon in all liia glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? . . . Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the mor row shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." —Bruce Barton in Every Week. A Bad War For Prophets Prophesying about the Great War for a newspaper has been hectic enough to call into play all the mental agility usually granted to mortals. Prophesy ing for a magazine has been even worse. As, for instance, the Slavic expert of the redoubtable "Nineteenth Century" has this to say in the cur rent March number of the political situation in Russia: "But there is little talk of revolu tion, no real fear exists of such an up heaval as that which occurred in 1900 during the Russo-Japanese war. . . . The Progressive or 'Liberal' element, by far the biggest factor in Russian politics, sharply dissociates itself from all thought of a revolution What we must bear in mind is that the Progressive movement in Russia is national in spirit, constitutional in its aims, and unmistakably loyal to the Czar." i Not even the German prophets who fixed the day, hour and minute when Verdun was to fall went further astray. The only other English proph ecy worth putting with it is that of Winston Churchill, who saw the Galli poli fight as good as won just when it was a hopeless failure. The one suc cessful prophecy by a public officer of any country still stands to the credit of K. of K. His "three-year war" camo at a time when such a pro longed light seemed preposterously gloomy. It was a sound guess and a bold one to utter, and sorely needed by his nation. Now that his minimum period is nearlng completion, the other prophets of the war, major and minor, may well take off their hats to the memory of the one prophet who made a colossal, affirmative predic tion, in the teeth of popular opinion, and guessed aright.—New York Trl , bun*. herself to-day. With the money wrung from Belgian towns, Germany paid, and pays, her army of occupancy. With labor forced upon imported and enslaved Belgians, Germany fortifies herself against her enemies. The coal dug from Belgian mines is Germany's bait for the friendship of Switzerland. And now the pope of Rome asks the children of the United States for a cup of milk to keep the children of Bel gium from starving. The forlorn irony of it, the ac quiescence of the neutral nations in it, shadows the civilized world; but the soul of Belgium lives. In every wasted little body this soul survives ill usage and ill will. The Christian children thrown to the beasts cemented with their innocent blood the indestructible edifice of Christianity.—Agnes Rep plier in the Atlantic Monthly. I OUR DAILY LAUGH jP HIS COLLEGE EDUCATION. How's your boy getting on in col- Not well. They batted him out ifin the box in tho ADRIFT. I hear you have ~A a bungalow at the jWY Inß I did have, but \ there was an un- Ml i N usually high tide JJ/ 5 | the other day, | I and now I've got f I f a houseboat. J §„ M A CRIMINAL LAWYER. <ft\® Crooke I? a If criminal lawyer, iT l\ lßn,t he? HI * He's a lawyer, but as to his be ing criminal, I think he's too f \ IP*"*— careful to quite overstep the line. NOTHING f Toung HUB- J band Darling, _/s/v I have a confes- ' *(fm Hn s!on to make. M My jplary is 30 yl per cent, less v iJJM'Sflßf' • than I told you /jfj j before we were / >1 1 married! ijj !j that's all right, //7T >•■ li Arthur. I cal- it/ O culated on fifty. * -I !] 2*7? LOOKS FINB. jfeu j ' A thing of beauty V 4 is a joy, II High in the ! '.I place the hand -1 some soldier „ —**- Seen on the NOT GREATLT AFFECTED. ViJ 'Sfjjito The doctor says /f&jjmMßi these clothes will \7 /■ / i5fWW® ruin my health. P-~J'bfl \tlfnfcllj4 What of it, my W Tjli dear? i) U Iftl ]jM I didn't suppose fj/ij *3 the old fogy ever '), fl noticed the styles. —v fTHE AMATEUR. Do you ever hear anything ot Smith, who re tired from busi ness last year and bought a farm? Oh, yes. He had to go back to work to support the farm. Ebpning (ftfyal The busiest people in the Stato In Hie rush of preparedness that has taken hold of almost every line of ac tivity are the commanders of various units of the National Guard who aro busy checking up their men so that they will be able to turn out with full strength on their rolls in the event of n. call to active service. When Wio organizations started for El Paso they contained many men who were enlist- A ed while tlio units were at Mt. Gretna * or who were added to them after they reached the border through the re cruiting work that followed up in tlio State. When they returned these men scattered to their homes although car ried on the rolls, and many of them have been unable to attend drills with their commands, although it is under stood that qulto a few looked in on tile drills of organizations where they happened to be or else got transfers. Now when things commence to look ns though the National Guardsmen would be called to duty again the comman ders are getting into touch with these men so that they will be able to sum mon them when the time comes. In this section most of the men como from the immediate territory and those who are some little distanco away have been communicating with their commanders. One of the problems that, will bo left for people of communities to solvo in the event of war will bo the "homo guards." The regulars and National Guardsmen will go into the first lino with reserve recruit establishments in the Stato to keep tlio Guard regiments up to strength. Then there will bo a volunteer army which will be raised independent of the regulars and the Guardsmen. This army will probably furnisli guards for such plants as Steelton and the railroad bridges. The protection of railroad stations, bridges, factories, water works and the numer ous other establishments will be left to local authorities. In New England what are called "Homo Guards" are being organized for this purpose. They arc auxiliaries to police forces anil somewhat like a sheriff's posso. Citi zens not going into the service make them up and they are for emer gencies. • • A man familiar with the scheme of the Home Guard outlined it as some thing like this: "Take Harrisburg, for instance. You have a number of men who know the city and its activities and the kinds of people it lias. Well there would be a meeting at which a committee on home defense would bo named and it would then proceed to form units. Wen whose business and residence made them familiar with a certain section of the city would be enrolled in the unit charged with duty of turning out to protect the important places in that part of the city. These men would not be on guard duty except when called. If there should be an outbreak of vio lence of any kind they would he called to their stations. What they would liave to do would be to hold meet ings, learn their duties, engage in practice and meet a couple of times a week to be ready. They would be armed and each man would be re quired, if things go tense, to have their arms handy. The Home Guard is an organized force against emer gencies. I look to see them formed in every city in the country." • • An extremely interesting document in support of teachers' retirement leg islation has been sent to the State Capitol for the edification of the mem bers of the General Assembly. Thi* document was prepared by a commit tee which has given exhaustive study to the subject. When it was distrib uted among the legislators there was more or less dismay. The reason was that the proof of the statment was made by algebra. * * fc* Veterans of the Civil War are hav ing the time of their lives just now inspiring the younger generation in the crisis with Germany. Some of the veterans have been calling upon young men of their acquaintance to ask them what they are goinS to do about it and they recall the lively days of the great struggle when they marched to the mustering offices. Harrisburg was one of the big gathering points for sol diers for miles around and many a regiment was sent forward from this city. • • • Men who work in the Lalancc and Grosjean tin plate mills assert that spring is surely coming to Harrisburg and that it will not bo long until there will be signs as indubitable as tlio discovery of the first liver wort in Wildwood Park by Dr. John H. Fager. These men say that upon several oc casions lately, along toward sundown, they have heard the bullfrogs in the marshy spots in Hoffman's woods. Local tradition is bound to be vindi cated. * * • Harrisburg appears to have an un usual number of bark and herb men working this year and somehow or other they have Capitol Hill on their routes. Several men with fragrant baskets of sassafras and other spring tonic materials visited the Capitol yesterday and to-day. • • * ] WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Colonel H. C. Trexler, the cement magnate, is near the age limit for army work but says he Is willing to waive all that. —Senator W. C. McKec, of Pitts burgh, is colonel of the First Artillery and a. great advocate of proper train ing of young men. —Congressman O. D. Bleakley, whose election may be attacked, says he will fly to Washington to attend the sessions if needed. —The Rev. J. J. Boyle, prominent Altoona clergyman, is spending a few days at the seashore. —Judge Aaron S. Swartz, of Nor ristown, who has been ill, has recov ered and will be a candidate again. 1 DO YOU KNOW ~~ That Dauphin county steel is being used for Russian railroad work ? HISTORIC HARRISBURG In every war Harrisburg has sent organizations for service on the first call. v What May Be Said of God (Thomas llobbcs.) For as much as God Almighty is in comprehensible, it followeth that we can have no conception or image of the Deity: and consequently all his at tributes signify our inability and defect of power to conceive anything con cerning his nature; and not any con ception of the same, savo only this: That thero is a God, for the effects w* acknowledge naturally do include ft power of their producing before were produced, and that power pre supposetli something existent that hath such power, and the thing so existing with power to produce, if it were not eternal, must needs havo been produced by something beforo that, till wo como to the Eternal, that is to say, the first power of all powers and first causd of all causes, and this it is which all men conceive by the name of God, implying eternity, in comprehensibility and omnipotcncy. /
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