Tárogató, 1940-1941 (3. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1940-07-01 / 1-2. szám
TÁROGATÓ 13 Grant Me the Gift of Enthusiasm A Young Person’s Prayer Eternal Spirit of all the eager hearts of the world, come thou into my life with thy kindling presence. Stir me out of my dull satisfaction with things as they are, and with my life as it is. Quicken me through the excitement of new books. Stir me by the thrill of new friends and acquaintances whose lives are larger and richer than mine. Hold me to the diligent and skilled performance of my daily task until the perfection of its doing puts a new vitality into my mood and mind. Forgive me, 0 God, for submitting to the deadening influence of gossip, and the “comics,” and scandal, and other drugs to the mind and spirit. Awaken me instead to the glory of that which is far off in time and space, and of what is close at hand. Widen my vision to the scope of thy will and purpose. Thus, 0 God, grant me the gift of enthusiasm. Amen. —Onward. Life Snatched from the Swirling Waters The Boys’ Brigade Cross for Heroism has been awarded to thirteen-year-old Ewan Cameron, of Glasgow, for saving a boy from drowning at Crieff, in Scotland. Cameron is an evacuee. A party of boys, inculding Cameron, were walking by a river near a waterfall. As they were clambering up the steep sides of the gorge one of the boys fell down a rocky slope into the swirling waters of a deep pool and disappeared. Cameron dived into the icycold water, but his friend could not be seen. Forcing himself below the surface, he dimly sam the boy, although the disturbed state of the water made visibility difficult. He grabbed him, brought him up, and succeeded in reaching the bank. The drowning boy was now unconscious, and Cameron had a hard struggle to keep hold of him, narrowly escaping being swept over another waterfall. He sent the other boys for help, and, although drenched with icy water, applied artificial respiration for fifteen minutes, and carried the lad to a neighbouring farm, where he revived. From “The Explorer.” The Empire That Cannot Fail. When the Roman Emperors were still marshalling their victorious legions and the end of the Empire seemed yet far away, when the Germanic tribes were gathering on the frontiers for plunder of the wealth of Rome, the foundations of the world’s greatest empire were being laid in Bethlehem when the Christ- Chiid was born. He never bore a sword nor shouted a battle cry; his followers were not trained to arms, and they were never known to pillage any city; yet this empire has survived the crash of mighty dynasties and the overthrow of the world’s greatest monarchies. And today that Empire stands firmly rooted in the power and the justice of God, and no matter what civilizations may crumble nor what giant forces of evil may be unleashed, this Empire shall never waver, not for one moment. “He must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.” Of the increase of this kingdom there shall be no end. “For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.” from “Onward.” Dreams There was a very famous American doctor whose dream as a boy was to become a great surgeon. His father was dead and his mother was very poor; and a medical training is very expensive, so it did not look as if he would see his dream fulfilled. But he worked and he struggled and he studied, he overcame tremendous obstacles, and at the age of thirty he found himself assistant to a great American professor of surgery. Then a terrible thing happened. He developed a peculiar form of skin disease, which meant that he couldn’t OUR ENGLISH SECTION.
