No matter how noisy the pessimists may be, we know that the world is getting better steadily and rapidly, and that is a good thing to remember in our moments of depression or humiliation.
THE BENEVOLENT TRUSTS To return to the subject of the Benevolent Trusts, which is a name for corporations to manage the business side of benefactions.

The idea needs, and to be successful must have, the help of men who have been trained along practical lines.

The best men of business should be attracted by its possibilities for good.

When it is eventually worked out, as it will be in some form, and probably in a better one than we can now forecast, how worthy it will be of the efforts of our ablest men! We shall have the best charities supported generously and adequately, managed with scientific efficiency by the ablest men, who will gladly he held strictly accountable to the donors of the money, not only for the correct financing of the funds, but for the intelligent and effective use of every penny.

To-day the whole machinery of benevolence is conducted upon more or less haphazard principles.