The Arizona sentinel., 1905-02-22
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 Mrs. Belle Replogle has resigned her position as teacher of the Thurman Crouch public school and returned to California. Miss Cora Talbert and Professors Claude Riddle and c. M. Caldwell had to close their schools last week on account of high water-the water in the two school buildings next day after closing being several inches deep. Crane and Shadyside schools are still high and dry and are going on.
 Thanks to our trustees for that load of wood last week they sent us just in the nick of time. Clerk Devine saved $50 pupils, seven teachers and the best ianitor on earth from being suspended all in one day.
 Several of our pupils cam teo school last week barefootcd, one boy saying, ''tO save our new shoes"
 Prof. D. ". Hall, who turned his Sunnyside school loose last week, has just received an appointment to teach in the Philippines salary $lG0O per annum and all travelling expenses. "All things come to him who will but wait. /" Now, if Mr. Hall can turn his best girl loose, be will sail for the P. Islands about April 1st. Congratulations from all the brethren and ''sistern," too. Such positions do not often come to men so young in the teaching profes- sion.
 Brethren of the noblest profession, suffer these earnest words from an humble toiler in the ranks:
 Let us all have and cultivate noble ambition, a lofty ambition, whose bat tery is always charged with longing to bless our fallen race and lift it nearer to God and heaven. Do not be discOur- aged if we do not find this power clothed in the worlds pomp, parade and splendor. Power need not be loud or noisy. Some of the most po- tent influences are silent influences, ,and the most powerful and the sweetest be- meath the azure blue is that of woman. Some one has beautifully said that woman's influence flows peacefully within the entertainments Of home: but the influence of the twentieth century woman is fast overdowing these banks and inundating the world.
 God works by quiet and silent forces that man may scOrn, but cannot equal. Go with me to the frozen regions of Nova Zembla and Spitzbergen. Behold that mountain of ice in the polar sea held by the relentless grip of a long winters frost. All the trip-bammers in Pennsylvania-al the combined en- zines of the world could net shake it from it's adamartine throne. All the battering rams of ancient Rome and Carthage could not move 1t a single inch. But the earth whirls forward in her ample rounds, Nature unveils her smiling face when spring comes to that icy region, the Sun sheds her gentle rays upon it, noiseless as the grave, tCo mild to hurt an infants flesh, and seen these mountains of ice relax their grip and glide away into the great deep, spreading their noiseless waves and gentle breezes upon the far-off shores of earth's remotest bounds. This, humble teachers, is power-power in- carnate-power that you and we all may long and pray for, power that we may some sweet day possess and learn to wield-wield for God and humanity till the quiet influences that we may exert will roll their pillows oyer the bounds of earth and time and break forever upon the dim, shadowy, but far-off and glinting shores of eternity.
 The gentle Dr. Holmes closes his beautiful poem called "The Chambered Nautilus" with these noble words: Build thee more stately mansions, o my soul As the swift seasons roll
 Leave thy low-v -vaulted past!
 Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with dome more vast Till thou at length art free,
 Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unrest ing sea-"
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