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work along the direction OF the fourth

work along the direction OF the fourth
dimension.
The institution or the man who
does the thing supremacy well gets
the reward nnn-orlater-nf- having
obeyed the law of the fourth dimen-
sion. In team work the selfish player
hates to make a sacrifice hit. The
disposition is to personally SHINE. ana
be unwilling to obey orders and miss
an individual opportunity for the good
of the club.
There is no better illustration of the
need for team work than in the an
cient ia BILE. The hands Kicked be-
cause they provided the food and all
the month had to do WAS to eat 1t.
So they went on strike. and re-
fused to feed the lazy mouth. or
course the body starved, and the
hands suffered with the other MEM
bers.
Success depends upon the principle
embodied in the motto Of The Three
Guardsnen, IAN for One and One for
Ar, Japan ffocked off by herself.
till Commodore Perry opened her
ports at the lannon's mouth. March
81 1864. She was a weakling among
nations--an infant in strength, though
hoary with age. But having once
seen the white light, Japan followed
1t with such zeal that in l9o4-just
fifty years later-she was victor in
| the great war with Russia, whom Eng
| land herself, had long dreaded 10 en-
| counter. Through cooperation with
| outside nations China, too, has at last
! awakened and ia doing more of her
! part in the worlds great work. Team
| work means observation-disclosures, and 1T
| is the only road to lasting prosperity
| whether among the. individuals of a
| community or among the nations OF
| the world.
Whether in public or private service
! both employer and employe are IL
| nancially interested in the team work
| idea. Sometimes it is just as neces-
| sary for the employer to make sacrt-
| flee hit as it is for the employe. The
| management that fails to appreciate
| this basic fact in business building
| will cause great loss, soon or later.
| There Is no such thing as an obliga-
| ton being single. 1t is always double.
| always mutual and reciprocal. You
cannot be obligated to one person
without that person being in some COR
! relative way obligated to you.
You cannot be bound to do team
| work with others, unless they are
mutually SO bound TO do team work
! with you. There must he a common
object. a common interest, a common
plan, all pointing in the common d.
rection of the fourth dimension. all of
whose hyways make tor unity. con-
centration. texture. quality and efii-
cheney.
Posuude.
The law OF the Fourth Dimension
shines in the stars, sparkles in the
meteor, glows in the comet, charms
in the moonlight and dazzes in the
creative glory of the sun. II is heard
! in the promise Of youth. the achieve
ment OF manhood. the content OF
well-earned old age, in the Evening
Song to the Virgin" and in the echoes
from THE Choir Invisible"
All that makes for the essence oil
achieved reality, all that enables the
5 thinker to dare and to do is humanl,
, and divinely representative OF the
!, Fourth Dimension.
But the ripening sultrincss of Au
gust cannot follow the ice-bound win
I ter without the full transition periot
> the whole season for elimination
and substitution. The wisdom OF tn,
. seer could not follow the menta
r cropping Of the savage without dut
I elimination and needed substitution
!, twin processes that will not be hurried
Even Deity does not attempt to maxi
r a twenty-one year old man In min
Y ute, and so in each century we voy
age on, blindly feeling our unchartet
| ! individual ways, doing our team work
) both within and without slowly gu
= surely eliminating the hurtful ana
( substituting the helpful as We may
G All the while tho set of our sail
e must change, as the winds make Vi
e tack as best we cam under universe
: law, to follow the great circle of tn
. Fourth Dimension. till we mast.
\ the theories and enjoy the results o.
. practice" But meanwhile
n '.One ship drives East and anothe
drives West,
II While the self-same breezes blow
II It's the set of the sails and not IN,
II gales
II That bids them where 10 go.
\ Like the winds OF the seas are tn,
II ways OF the fates.
H Az we voyage along through life
\ It's the set of, the soul that decides
II the goal.
u And not the storm or the strife.
III Personal Questions.
III /. What am / eliminating?
III 2. What am l substituting?
n 3. What team work am l neglect
II ing?
II 1. Are my sails set for the rock
i Isle OF Individuality or for the ricl
A Continent Of co-Operation?
NJ The subject OF Lecture NIX, will b
II Good Business"
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