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EXT to being born again, the most important thing in our earthly life- is growing in the life into which we have been born. A dwarf is an unfortu nate being and usually a hid
he afterwards became Vice President of the Southern Confederacy, was opposed to secession. These two men stumped the State o f Georgia in joint debate. One night Bob Toombs was speaking, and Alex ander Stephens sat almost suriken out of sight in his big overcoat. Bob Toombs looked at him and pointed at him in con tempt, saying, “There sits Alexander Steph ens. I could eat him up.” Alexander Stephens in his piping voice called back, “Well, if you did you would have more brains in your belly than you ever had in your head.” He was a physical dwarf but an intellectual giant. One o f the saddest sights in the world is a man o r .woman who is intellectually dwarfed. One o f the most painful recol lections o f my childhood is a young woman whom I knew, whose father was one o f the brainiest men I ever knew, but his daughter for some reason or other never grew intellectually after she was seven years o f age. She lived to be over fifty but was an intellectual dwarf all her days, the sorrow and burden o f her family. But sadder still than the intellectual dwarf is the moral and spiritual dwarf.
eous being. An intellectual dwarf is, how ever', a more unfortunate being than a phys ical dwarf. There have been physical dwarfs who were intellectual giants, and there have been physical giants who were intellectual dwarfs. Every one forgot the physical limitations o f the intellectual giant. In the days immediately preceding the Civil War there was a great division of sentiment in Georgia as to whether Georgia should secede or not. Col. Robt. Toombs, or as he was familiarly known, Bob Toombs, was a man o f commanding phys ical presence and by no means an intellec tual dwarf, but Alexander Stephens, who afterwards became Vice President o f the Southern Confederacy, was a man o f great physical limitations. He never weighed more than seventy-eight pounds, but he had one o f the finest minds o f any man in the United States. Bob Toombs was in favor o f seceding. Alexander Stephens, though
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