Standards That Need Standardizing.
They have discovered that even the British standard weights and measures, to which all other weights and measures in the empire must correspond, are themselves changing.
It is a very slight change, to be sure, but it is an observable one. The standard yard, for example, has shrunk at Greenwich 43 millionths of an inch; at the Standard Department, 215 millionths; and the other two copies have also shrunk. They are made of bronze alloy, and the greatest pain is taken to preserve them. In the same way the standard pound proves to vary.
Though science may boast over religion, religion may justly retaliate many times. The standards of religion never vary. For three thousand years the Ten Commandments have not shrunk. Christ's words are as accurate measure of perfection now as when they were uttered. While all things else are shifting, spiritual truth alone endures.