Tárogató, 1944-1945 (7. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1944-11-01 / 5. szám
16 TÁROGATÓ render to each one his own due.” This seems to be a fair definition, and if it were embodied into all our laws and customs there would probably be less thought of revolution in any land. The simple question is, “Are we willing to render to each one his due?” Most men are anxious to get their dues, but at times not a few are strenuously unwilling to accord to others what they insist upon for themselves. Yet no civilization can expect to others what they insist upon for themselves. Yet no civilization can expect to be permanent if it ignores this fundamental right. —Onward. JEFFERSON’S RULES OF LIFE Thomas Jefferson, who was President of the United States from 1801 to 1809, was a man of fine character. Here are the rules he set for himself to govern his daily life: 1. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. 6. Nothing is troubelsome that we do willingly. 7. Take things always by the smooth handle. 8. When angry count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. —Canadian Boy. WHAT TO LEARN Learn to laugh. A good laugh is better than medicine. When you smile or laugh, your brain for a moment is freed from the load that it ordinarily carries. Learn to tell a helpful story. A welltold story is as welcome as a sunbeam in a sickroom. Learn to keep your troubles to yourself; the world is too busy to linger over your ills and sorrows. Learn to stop croaking. If you cannot see any good in this world, keep the bad to yourself. —-Canadian Boy. “There must be no bitterness in the reconstruction world. No matter what we have undergone and suffered, we must try to forgive those who have injured us and remember only the lessons gained thereby.” These words were written by a Chinese Christian, who knew all about what happened to his fellow countrymen at Nanking at the hands of the Japanese. * * * Great Britain’s new Education bill provides for instruction in the Christian religion in all state schools. When this bill is made effective it will probably bring religious teaching to more than five million boys and girls. All the Protestant Churches have agreed to support the bill, and are uniting in the preparation of syllabuses for scriptural instruction. * * * The Canadian Forum, Toronto, is to be thanked for this outspoken and clear-sighted statement: “Anti-Semitism is a retrogressive characteristic, and its growth in the Western world it not only a denial of the enlightened and spacious liberalism which at one time might have distinguished our civilization above all others, but an unmistakable warning of moral and intellectual decay.” —Onward. jf; jfc % Some years ago an old Chinaman died in China. All the people in the town in which he had lived mourned him deeply. “Because”, they said, “there was no difference between him and the Book.” They meant that he was a sort of real live Bible. He carried the Bible’s saying so much in his heart that he was always acting them in his life. —Explorer. * * * The Japanese were so anxious to capture a woman missionary on one of the Solomon Islands they occupied, they even used scouting planes as they searched from village to village. After eight months of hardship in the bush, an American seaplane rescued her and took her home to New Zealand. Her one desire: To return to the Solomons! * * * Seek not so much to know your enemies as your friends, for where one man has fallen by foes a hundred have been ruined by acquaintances. —Onward.
