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No, at noonday in the bustle of man's work-time

Greet the unseen with a cheer!

Bid him forward, breast and back as either should be, "Strive and thrive!" cry, "Speed, fight on, fare ever There as here!"

Suggestions for morning talks

Read the story of George Rogers Clark's February march across the flooded country to capture Vincennes. The best version is in Winston Churchill's The Crossing. The Macmillan Co.

Read or tell of Fulton building the steamboat; Morse inventing the telegraph; Washington crossing the Delaware; Grenfell adrift on an icepan. See Wilfred Grenfell's Adrift on an Icepan, R.L.S. No. 230. Houghton Mifflin Co.

Recite a portion of Arthur H. Clough's "Hope Evermore, O Man," from Poems. The Macmillan Co. These illustrations show that man has conquered and may continue his conquest of the physical world around him. Sketch the lives of Laura Bridgman and Helen Keller. Laura Bridgman, Dr. Howe's Famous Pupil, and what he taught her, by Maude Howe Elliott and Florence Howe Hall. Little, Brown & Co. The Story of My Life, by Helen A. Keller. Doubleday, Page & Co. Consider, with the class, Lincoln's efforts to gain an education. Let them tell of the purchase of the grammar, the lists of difficult words or extracts written upon the cabin walls; the constant study by the fire, on any fence, at the mill while waiting for the corn to be ground, etc. Give a brief account of the rewriting by Carlyle of The French Revolution. These

illustrations show that man can conquer difficulties of the mind. Tell the stories of David and Goliath; of Moses, the meek, at the Court of Pharaoh; and of Daniel in the lion's den. Tell of Abraham Lincoln's heavy responsibilities during our Civil War. These show that man can conquer moral difficulties.

Almost all cases of courage illustrate the conquest of more than one type of difficulty. For example, Grace Darling illustrates both physical and moral victory. See James Baldwin's Fifty Famous Stories Retold. American Book Co.

To overcome difficulties develops a manly character. Weakness is developed by yielding to temptation. Every day try to do some one hard task. This will make you strong.

Stories of the courage of children in overcoming difficulties are:

"The Little Postboy," Bayard Taylor, from Boys of Other Countries. G. P. Putnam's Sons.

"Nellie in the Lighthouse." St. Nicholas, vol. iv, p. 577. The Century Co.

"Little Agnes's Adventure," Margaret Brenda. Our Young Folks, vol. VII. Ticknor & Fields.

"The Sardinian Drummer Boy," Edmondo de Amicis, from Cuore. T. Y. Crowell & Co.

Study: Edward R. Sill's "Opportunity," from Poems. Houghton, Mifflin Co.

Arthur H. Clough's "Say not the Struggle naught Availeth," from Poems. The Macmillan Co.

Jean Ingelow's "Winstanley." Roberts Broth

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AT YOUR SERVICE1

BERTON BRALEY

Here we are, gentlemen; here's the whole gang of us,
Pretty near through with the job we are on;
Size up our work — it will give you the hang of us
South to Balboa and north to Colon.

Yes, the canal is our letter of reference;
Look at Culebra and glance at Gatun;
What can we do for you got any preference,
Wireless to Saturn or bridge to the moon?

Don't send us back to a life that is flat again,
We who have shattered a continent's spine;
Office work - Lord, but we could n't do that again!
Have n't you something that's more in our line?
Got any river they say is n't crossable?

Got any mountains that can't be cut through?
We specialize in the wholly impossible,
Doing things "nobody ever could do!"

Take a good look at the whole husky crew of us,
Engineers, doctors, and steam-shovel men;
Taken together you'll find quite a few of us
Soon to be ready for trouble again.
Bronzed by the tropical sun that is blistery,
Chockful of energy, vigor, and tang,
Trained by a task that's the biggest in history,
Who has a job for this Panama gang?

JONES AND SAUSAGE 2

THOMAS DREIER

I should also like to tell you the story of Jones - the story of one of the biggest men who will attend this con

1 From Collier's Weekly.

From The Outlook, July 5, 1913. Extract from sermon preached in Baltimore at the convention of Associated Advertising Clubs of America.

vention - the story of Milo C. Jones, of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. They tell us of the housemaid who went singing about her work, and when asked why she was so happy she replied that she was sweeping the floor to the glory of God. If you asked Jones to tell you why he is a great man, he would grunt a very grunty grunt at you and enter a general denial of the charge. But I, who know him and the work he has done, can tell you that Jones is a great man because he made sausage for his neighbors to the glory of God, and has always used what he had to get what he needed in order that he might express himself in greater service to his fellows.

Thirty years ago Jones was a physical giant, able to hold his own in any test where agility and strength were needed. He could run, jump, play baseball, thump a piano, and was able to pass with high honors the entrance examination to West Point. He wanted to become an engineer. So, just to pass the waiting months away and keep his mind fitted with a razor edge, he took special work in the local school, met THE girl, who was a teacher there, married her the following year- and the West Point dream slipped away into the land of unborn things. And Jones, in addition to his farm work, did surveying for the neighbors. One day, when ten miles from home, he waded in an icy stream, neglected to change his socks—and the next morning his toes tingled. The morning after his limbs were stiff. On the third Jones was flat on his back - and he remained there for nearly seven years.

His life was changed. His body was gone. He could do none of the work for which he had been trained. Like Robinson Crusoe, he was on a desert island. And he, like Robinson, used what he had to get what he needed. His body was tortured and twisted by rheumatism. But his brain was active. They say that a man is worth a dollar and a half from his neck down, but that he may be

worth any amount from his neck upward. Jones had and has a million-dollar brain. The first thing he did was to discover his resources. His family needed to live. Money was wanted. "To get money or anything else," said Jones, "we must supply some great human need, and fill that need better than any one else." His parents had made sausage after a special recipe for themselves. The neighbors, to whom the Joneses had given generously, also liked it. "Let us make sausage," said Jones, "make it for our neighbors, but sell it instead of giving it away." And they did. And now Jones finds his neighbors scattered all over the country, and his output is away over five hundred thousand dollars a season. Success came to Jones because he was a man of brains, with grit, with determination, and because he used what he had to render satisfactory service to his neighbors.

DECEMBER: REGARD FOR THE

TRUTH

For the Teacher:

SOCIAL AIMS 1

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

And yet there are trials enough of nerve and character, brave choices enough of taking the part of truth and of the oppressed against the oppressor, in privatest circles. A right speech is not well to be distinguished from action. Courage to ask questions; courage to expose our ignorance. The great gain is, not to shine, not to conquer your companion, then you learn nothing but conceit - but to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown, horse 1 From Letters and Social Aims. Houghton Mifflin Co.

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