The Eternal-Or lessons of the League of the long Bow

The sacred and the eternal can be hard to detect in everyday life. And while it need not always be front and center--the little things in life have their place and their own import--it is always important and cannot be ignored. And in a world where technology is constantly increasing the pace, making reflection more rare, recognizing the eternal, the unmovable, the First Things, is essential.

As the members of the League of the Long Bow put it:

"In all our adventures," went on the other, "we have all of us taken up some definite position and stuck to it, however difficult it might be; that was the whole fun of it. But our critics did not stick to their own position --not even to their own conventional or conservative position. . .The modern world is materialistic, but it isn't solid. It isn't hard or stern or ruthless in pursuit of its purpose, or all the things that newspapers and novels say it is; and sometimes actually praise it for being. Materialism isn't like stone; it is like mud, and liquid mud at that."

'There's something in what you say," said Owen Hood, "and I am inclined to add something to it. On a rough reckoning of the chances in Modern England, I should say the situation is something like this. In that dubious and wavering atmosphere it is very unlikely there would ever be a revolution, or any vital reform. But if there were, I believe on my soul that it might be successful. I believe everything else would be too weak and wobbly to stand against it."