The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-01-01
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lscientiously approach the New Yea
with purposeful devotion to our in
|diyidual integrity and advancement
and the ultimate good of our state
land may the uplift OF truth and Low
tglorify each duty done, and be wit
each Of you here and eyermore.
| DORA B. SMITH.
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FROM THE THIRD DISTRICT.
The following greeting to the clul
women of the state is from the pei
Of Mrs. Clyde, who was succeeded b,
Mrs. Smith as president of the Thir,
district:
II am glad of this opportunity I,
extend most hearty greeting to tn,
club women Of Idaho. so many o
whom I have met with such genuin,
delight.
MAY the New Year pour ricl
blessings upon you all, and may thu
club work be directed, as it has beer
in the past. toward those things
which tend to the betterment Of oul
state and its people. Fraternally,
ISABELLE WITHROW GYDE.
Wallace, Ida. Dec. 81.
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FROM SECOND DISTRICT PRESI.
DENT.
In reply to request for a club
greeting from Mrs. Pittinger, presi-
dent Of the Second district, she
writes: II am SO busy l could not
find time to send a message to Gar
cha. The Home Finding society,
legislative bills and year book COM
pilation are taking every moment.
Give my good wishes to the clubs and
tell them am with them for full
year of work and results"
i. j. =
FROM FIRST DISTRICT PRESI-
DENT.
Dear Club Women:
Should the worthy editor of our
Echoes think it timely, | will voice
the message of my heart to you as it
is gathered from the silence and
beauty Of the hills at this Christmas
tide.
AS far as my eye can see in all di-
rections is the glittering, shimmering
whiteness Of the snow and the silence
is perfect-not sound save the sing
Ing OF perfect stiffness. What time
what a place to read Emerson, 4
thought and down from the shelf
came his. Nature" and with rever-
snce | explored the verities and
lepths Of his soul as he pours it out
n unstinted measure for the illumin-
ltion of other souls. And, oh, how
ne material world fades from con-
'ciousness in the exaltation of the
piritual, even as the brown and
green's of the hills are laid out of
light by the mantel of glorious white
o typical OF the eternal! Even so, it
S union of love-the sun typical
II the divine love) shall warm this
Vhlteness until 1t penetrates the sor-
I'D life beneath and call into growth
IA slumbering seeds containing the
Irvine spark. What a privilege to
% into the silence" in a double
ense and there weigh, with the spiri-
ual discernment of an Emerson, the
alues of things temporal and eter-
al! And realize that 1.-THE things
nat are seen are temporal-the
Kings that are unseen are eternal,
o withdraw for a season from the
altitude of demands upon our time
nd thought and live the poetry of
ur souls for time, feeling with |
lato that poetry comes nearer to
ltal truth than history" Such a Il
r1vilege should fit one to 60 back
the busy world with an inspiration t
lat shall be easily contagious, and II
equilibrium that shall resist the s
lffeting of the worlds petty trials. i
The wonderful heart and mind of
merson! His essay. Nature" writ
n in 1885, voices truths that the
are hungry for today and b
at underlie the present day New F
fought" teachings.
The thirst of the human heart to- +
y is for more spirituality in religion
d less materialism; more prac-
al use of the spiritual in the daily q
tivities of life, and how Emerson a
ticipated this need in the cry of his n
N soul. =,
Perhaps you are asking what mes r,
Sc is contained in all this for club h
men. &C
1t is my belief that the club women n,
our state today are among those Of in
ge hearts and bright minds and l 81
uld have them ambitious not only
build Alright our empire in things a,
nporal and material but to exalt di
r social and political fabric by n q,