Fraternity-Testvériség, 1959 (37. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1959-12-01 / 12. szám

4 FRATERNITY Since the white elephant was considered a sacred not-to-be-worked, not- to-be-disposed-of animal, its upkeep usually proved disastrous.) Without doubt it is best to give of yourself to your dear ones . . . the gifts you give should be a definite expression of your deeper self. A graphic story of an iron bar showed it to be worth $6; the same bar turned into horseshoes was worth $14. Made into needles it was worth $400; converted into pen-knives it jumped to some $3,000. But turned into fine balance springs for watches its value approached a half-million dollars! Horeshoes or fine springs? Your hand or your heart? Your loot or your love? ~k ~k ~k DR. ALBERT SCHWEITZER, greatest contemporary Christian, has done so many fine things to make every day Christmas Day that it’s difficult to say that any one of his sermons, any one of his books, his musical interpretations, day at his hospital, etc., could be called greater than any other. However, we were fortunate in saving his “guidlines” as they were nationally published about a year ago. We herewith pass them on to you in hope that they will add depth to your Christmas thinking and better prepare you for the years ahead: (1) Put your conviction ahead of the fear of men. Try to unlearn the dread of being laughed at by your fellowmen. (2) The significant hours of one’s life do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpectedly. (3) Many people will give you something. We owe virtues like veracity, loyalty and resignation-under-suffering to people in whom we have seen these virtues at work. (4) The secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. (5) Grow into your ideas, so that life can never rob you of them. ★ ★ ★ LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEW YEAR, let’s close the “old year” with the following two quotes: “At the close of life the ques­tion will not be how much you got, but how much you have given; not how much you have won, but how much you have done; not how much you have saved, but how much you have sacrificed; how much you have loved and served, not how much you were honored.” (Nathan C. Schaeffer) . . . “To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it con­tains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the ultimate purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done — this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.” (Thomas Dekker). ★ ★ ★ Wishing each of you a reverence filled Christmas and an oppor­tunity filled New Year!

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