Times and men are strangely changed since those words were written. What preacher to-day has to study anxiously “how to avoid popularity,” or finds any necessity for warning the people among whom he labors against “esteeming him or loving him too much!”—W. H. Fitchett, “Wesley and His Century.”
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Population—See Cities of the World; [City, Growth of a Great].
Population, Non-Church and Church-Membership—See [Church Statistics].
Population, Over-—See [Survival].
Populations, Religious, of World—See [Religious Conditions of the World].
Position, Advantage of—See [Favoritism].
Position and Worth—See [Worth, Estimating].
POSSESSION
When the Australian miner was drowned because he had heavy bags of gold round his waist, while trying to swim ashore from the wreck, it was an open question which possest which. Just so I am quite convinced that men stuffed with information or “the science of the day” are not always possest of true wisdom. Wisdom itself, anyhow, is not an end but a tool to work with.