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Wealth Statistics—See [Money-power in Canada]; [Money-power in the United States].
Weapons Displaced—See [Warfare, Antiquated].
Weather Forecast—See [Prognostication of Weather].
Weather Influencing Crime—See [Crime, Epidemics of].
Weather, The, and the Spider—See [Indicator, An Insect].
Weaving—See [Web of Life].
WEB OF LIFE
Sit down by the side of an Old World lace-maker for a few moments. Fifty or a hundred bobbins, or spools, hang around a cushion in which there is a forest of upright pins. Every bobbin hangs by a thread that runs toward and among the pins. The onlooker sees the worker throw one bobbin over another, as tho she were playing with them. But how she knows which bobbin to pick up, and where to toss it, is a mystery. Out of the great complex of pins and threads comes a beautiful lace pattern, regular and beautiful. So the divine Weaver takes one and another of us, ordering us here and there, but keeping us always attached, like the lace-maker’s thread, to a definite purpose. As we look back over the past, we can see the wonderful pattern and perfect work of the weaver. Just what he is working out, for us and with us, now, we can not discern. But the lesson of the past is that the future will be good, and we can trust the Weaver of the indefinite to do all things well.
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