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So with five journalists working at top speed to supply the hungry lithograph presses, Mr. Knapp was likewise responsible for Edward Bok's first adventure as an editor. It was commercial, if you will, but it was a commercial editing that had a distinct educational value to a large public. The important point is that Edward Bok was being led more and more to writing and to editorship.
It seemed incomprehensible that any man should want to give up before he was, for some reason, compelled to do so. A man should go on until he "dropped in the harness," they argued. Bok agreed that any man had a perfect right to work until he did "drop in the harness."
"Your articles are so long," Bok would explain. "Long?" Doctor Briggs would echo. "You don't measure theological discussions by the yardstick, young man." "Perhaps not," the young assembler would maintain. But we have to do some measuring here by the composition-stick, just the same." And the Union Seminary theologian was never able successfully, to vault that hurdle!
Women, as a whole, he argued from his experiences, while they would not go so far as openly to oppose such a measure, for fear of public comment, would do nothing to further its passage, for in their hearts they preferred failure to success for the legislation. They had frankly told him so: he was not speaking from theory. In one State after another Bok got into touch with legislators.
For purposes of air and light the vicinity of Independence Square was selected. Mr. Curtis purchased an entire city block facing the square, and the present huge but beautiful publication building was conceived. Bok strongly believed that good art should find a place in public buildings where large numbers of persons might find easy access to it.
In 1898, he met the pianist, who was then twenty-two years old. Of his musical ability Bok could not judge, but he was much impressed by his unusual mentality, and soon both learned and felt that Hofmann's art was deeply and firmly rooted. Hofmann had a wider knowledge of affairs than other musicians whom Bok had met; he had not narrowed his interests to his own art.
It was upon his return to London that Bok learned, through the confidence of a member of the British "inner circle," the amazing news that the war was practically over: that Bulgaria had capitulated and was suing for peace; that two of the Central Power provinces had indicated their strong desire that the war should end; and that the first peace intimations had gone to the President of the United States.
Bok was now done with health measures for a while, and determined to see what he could do with two or three civic questions that he felt needed attention. XXXI. Adventures in Civics
The Plymouth pastor was particularly pleased with Edward's successful exploitation of his pen work; and he afterward wrote: "Bok is the only man who ever seemed to make my literary work go and get money out of it."
Edward Bok never belittled the giving of contributions he solicited too much money himself for the causes in which he was interested but it is a poor nature that can satisfy itself that it is serving humanity by merely signing checks. There is no form of service more comfortable or so cheap. Real service, however, demands that a man give himself with his check.
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