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It is not provable. The deepest truths of life never are. The creeds of the world, that have led men up out of barbarism into civilization, out of war into law, out of lust into love, are all inherently dubitable. We do not reach those sublime conclusions that transform our lives by building Babel Towers with bricks of Logic, for the end of all such work is confusion of tongues. We fly to them by the airplanes of Faith. We believe them. We do not know them.
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Frank Crane was an American Methodist and Congregational clergyman, journalist, and author. He published a series of columns on moral issues that were important at the time.
Background
Frank Crane was born on May 12, 1861 in Urbana, Illinois, United States, the son of James Lyons and Elizabeth (Mayo) Crane. In those qualities of heart and head that insured his success as a writer of newspaper homilies he resembled his father, a Methodist minister, whose kindly, strongly marked idiosyncrasies made him one of the best-liked men in central Illinois. The elder Crane, incidentally, was for a few months chaplain of the 21st Illinois Volunteers under U. S. Grant, who in 1869 appointed him postmaster of Springfield. He was noted for his “happy faculty . .. of stoutly maintaining, his own opinions on all subjects, doctrinal, ecclesiastical, or political, in such a way as to give no cause of offence to any one. ”
Education
Frank Crane attended Illinois Wesleyan University in 1877-1778.
Career
Young Crane helped his father in the post-office, read law, taught country schools, and was admitted on trial into the Illinois Conference of the Methodist Church in 1882 and into full connection in 1884.
For twenty-seven years he was in the active ministry, serving congregations at Roodhouse, Ashland, Island Grove, Rantoul, Urbana, Bloomington (First Church), Omaha, Nebraska (First Church), Chicago (Trinity; Hyde Park; and an independent People’s Church), and Worcester, Massachusetts (Union Congregational).
Though effective, popular, and well paid, by 1909 he found his profession tame and cramping and decided to make a change. Borrowing $1, 600 on his life insurance to tide him over, he resigned his charge, returned to Chicago, and began haunting newspaper offices. He lost his first job, on the Chicago Evening Post, after a few months, but not before his writings had attracted the attention of Edward Bok and other expert judges of the public taste. Before long he was firmly established as a writer for newspaper syndicates and the popular magazines.
Although he published a number of books, including The Religion of Tomorrow (1899); a volume of verse, Vision (1906), and War and World Government (1915); he owed his affluence and renown to his four- hundred word didactic, inspirational, and personal essays, which were long a daily feature of many American newspapers. Some hundreds of these essays were reprinted in three collections: Four Minute Essays (10 vols. , 1919); The Crane Classics (10 vols. , 1920) ; and Everyday Wisdom (1927). The shrewd, homely, humorous, tolerant, sentimental, common sense tone of these brief writings, together with their brevity and simple phrasing, won for them a multitudinous audience. Among the plain people their author enjoyed the honors of a sage, while the city wits derided him as the current great prophet of tautology, a mere dealer in weary platitude and facile optimism. A more discerning criticism saw in him an amiable gentleman of decided liberal tendencies, who took a hearty pleasure in being the counselor and spokesman of the average American.
Though in his later years he suffered from diabetes, his personal cheerfulness remained unquenchable, and he continued to write his daily article and to answer faithfully every letter addressed to him that bore a legible signature and address. He lived in New York and Los Angeles and traveled a great deal. He admired the French people and lived as much as he could in France. He died at Nice, of a cerebral hemorrhage, while on a tour around the world. He left an estate of $200, 000 in stocks and bonds.
Achievements
Frank Crane became well-known as a writer and columnist. His most famous work was a set of ten volumes of "Four Minute Essays" which were published in 1919.
