These Titans may be counted on one's fingers: - i. e., the absolute Kings of Finance, who never know failure.

When the state of a nation or the entirety of the world of advancing people, is such that pursuit and possession of wealth is the all absorbing theme in the midst of them, on Boards of Trade, Stock Exchanges, Commercial centers, - whatever may be the name of the place, - HE appears: - The Titan of Finance, - who never knows defeat. Those who follow in his train, who attach themselves to his Financial chariot, who obey his mandate, may also share a small portion of his success; others, seeking to imitate him, fall by the way and are often crushed beneath his car, a veritable car of Juggernaut.

Yet there he is: beneath his touch, the stored treasures of the earth are fashioned into wealth, power, beauty, and, oftentimes, Transportation by sea and land; Ships, railways, electric appliances, unfold as if by magic -; the work of the Inventor is made by him to yield its results in the mechanical appliances of the world. Cities blossom out with beauty and grow more horrible with vice and degradation; Churches and Universities are founded - and (so catted) "Education" goes on apace. Every boy and youth is told, "See what the Titan has done, go and do thou likewise."

And They Try

There is nothing in wealth, per se, to indicate shadow or light. "Finance" is but a name, - "Money" a commodity, but Greed, and its kindred traits, use these agencies to carry forward their uncontrolled desires - The exchange of commodities is easier thru the medium of exchange, which, in and of itself, represents only the value of the things exchanged, - or acquired. When gold (or other medium of exchange) becomes the object of pursuit, then may follow the acts that lead to self-aggrandizement and oppression of others through wealth. The traits of character, qualities, or dispositions, are the same, whether land, stocks, or other possessions, are sought. Whatever represents wealth, also represents Power in the commercial world; and frequently in society, church and State.

Side by side, connected with the same gigantic enterprise, sometimes may be seen an Angel of Light - and an Angel of Shadow, both intent on bearing forward the great work in which they are interested, but with such contrast of methods, of personal motive and aspiration, or intention, as would startle the beholder, could one become illumined to see.

Against the background or foil of greed, avarice, love of personal gain, the qualities of the Angel of Light would shine resplen-dently.

We have one in mind: when the officers of his Company were narrow, miserly, not inclined to be public spirited, he would say: "Gentlemen, yours is one way of procedure, and possibly of success, but it would seem from another point of view that this would be the better way." Then he would proceed to point out the larger, broader, better method until they were almost constrained to think they had proposed it.

He would - when a poor family or group of people were proceeding to find and found a far Western home that they were seeking, advise such rates of transportation as would make the "Company" say: "ruinous" - "impossible"; then in a short time the "Company" would follow his plan and, of course, claim the credit. The Shadow was there always lowering, growling like muffled thunder but ready to share in all the advantages, accruing because of the presence of the Angel. The weak, the weary, the helpless, were helped. And there came prosperity to the "Company" because of the wisdom of this one who was its heart as well as its brain.

To earn one's "daily bread," means to earn all that is needed to keep one from being a burden upon others, and to feed, clothe and shelter those for whom he is responsible; it means more: "Man shall not live by bread alone," means that the mind must be clothed and fed; must have opportunity to obtain the requisite training for expression of that which is within, must have access to books that express the best thought of others, and the leisure to read them. There must also be opportunity to obtain the "Bread of Life," the food of the Spirit that daily requires sustenance (spiritual) from inner and higher sources, and from sympathetic association with human lives that are in advance and in accord with one's own life. Whatever hinders or prevents these fulfilments is in the nature of "shadow" - "barrier," the result of ignorance and selfishness, - and must be removed by the enlightenment that is the result of ages of growth and unfoldment from within the Soul.

And the Angels show the way through the Shadow into the Light.

But for the sublime conviction from within the Soul that ultimately ail the conditions of war, of unspeakable crimes against humanity, of horrible acts perpetrated not only by uncontrolled persons, but by nations, WILL be overcome by the individual - and thus by nations - one would surely be constrained to believe that "evil" is something more than a relative condition - or "the absence of good." We know, however, that the possibilities of the Angel are the possibilities, nay, the ultimate attainment, of all.