Our shortcomings as a nation have been aired so much of late it is strange no one has dilated upon the cause of most of them, i.e., the imperfect test. We are always making allowance, even carrying it into our personal relations and rather priding ourselves on "not expecting much of people "And yet, what man worth his salt, or woman worthy of her womanhood, would in the long run wish to be judged by anything short of the perfect test? Why, why this everlasting lowering of ideals to meet the limitations of the dishonestly unfit? Give them a chance to make good by all means, but for the sake of the many who ' would arrive," do not confuse the ultimate outcome, whether it be in church, university, workshop, or slaughter-house, by lowering the standard of perfection raised twenty centuries ago by One who considered it a condition of immortality.
in New York Times.
