The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1913-07-03

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aimed at your face. your hand in
stead Of flying 70 the aefcncr 20
ward n of flew behind Your hack %
save Itself. The hand Il good eoft
Of member TO hc Ia community life
Are sou that kind Of member OF
the community yos that sor, Of
member In the student body at
school?
The baud Is the instrument, the
tool. by which the body finds expires
sion for It's power aud for It's skin
Think what the hand can do. Here
IN the gymnasium, on the bar or the
rings. or with clubs or with dumb
bells. II makes the fist Of the pugi-
list and Il offers the fingers that
can tie perfectly an artificial fly, the
surgeons skin. the artists brush, the
pianist's touch are all dependent on
the hand Hand made work Is al
ways best. lf you must carry your
arm IA a sling for week, you learn
TO value the hand through Its loss
BE ambitions 20 serve your commmn' '
ty like a hand. You are a member.
Be hand. The hand Is a great sen
want of other members, BE nmbi-
tious for such service. Cromweii
woolsey said, Cromwell, ! charge
thee. fling away ambition. by that
sin fell the angels. How can man
then. the image of his maker, hope
To win by IT, but Woolsey was
wrong. Never fling away ambition
Raise your aim. He was right when
he Said: Love thyself last, let all
the ends thou aimest at be thy
eonntry's.thy Gods and truths, but
that is not fllnging away ambition
That Is lust what the hand does IL
lGyes itself last.
There are members OF various
bodies that do not make II their am
bitlou ic serve to love themselves
last.
There was body Of persons that
took ship tour 10 the Orient,lt was
n body of several hundred members.
aud most of the members were
cIergymen The word minister means
servant. They should all have been
hands But they were eager anu
some OF them were thoughtless, an
perhaps they did not always love
Themselves last. AT any rate. after
the tour was all over, one who had
been n member cf the party SAID
thar yh, rever they disembarked 70
visit any site or city, the order Oh
u, ocedure was always this. "Minis-
ters first ladies second gentlemen, u
ar, last" The hand is both a ser
want and q gentleman. II loves "
self last. Among the members OF
tbu community, suppose you be the
hand.
Or take the eye. The eye II the
window of the body. The person WIN
Z, ijoks out through the eye. Anu
rho eve Is the member of vision. IL
seee for the other members. The loot
needs the eye very much.The body
iau feel its way, but 1t is easier iar
If II can see it's wayJt Is SO mhcn
castor 70 cyoid dangers and obstacles
in the pnth II you can see them
yor mus bump into them peiore
ven know they are there, you are
moro likely TO suffer injury. In an
Gent times they called the wise man
of I, e community the Seer --tha'
il h, was the eye OF the body Inc
eve Is the seer. The eye Is not
always looking out for itself, 1T Is the
servant OF the other members ~
secs the dangers. It sees the neos.
II points the way.
Every community needs among its
some who are the eye VI
The body There arg many towns anu
,it,es which seem as destitute o'
members which can and do see as the
,lipd fish Of Mammoth Cave. or else
ha eyeg are shut, and the towns pro
yress Is beset with many slips anu
'alls.
And the eye Is the window out
n which the spirit looks. II you
i've in a good community be It's eye
Be representative Of the good ana OF
he community. The eye Is repre-
sentative always-for good or Tor pau
Re the seer OF your community "
make II what It ought to be. Ihen
,e the eye from which beams the
that the community mas
come to have.
heard two Scotchmen illustfat-
II
Ing the traits OF their countryheh
The other day. One said when an
leaves a car, he Simply
rises and leaves the car. Wheh an
lrishman leaves a car, he rises
looks 10 see II he has left anything
and leaves the car When scdeh-
man leaves ear. he rises, looks 10
see If any one else has lett any
hing then leaves the car. ihe
other said: 'If the same three per
,ons should happen 10 be by h'S
take In a railway compartment When
they desired to smoke, and u. jns'
AZ he was about TO light his pipe'
a lady should remark that IL was
where smoking was h'o
allowed. the Englishman would put
his pipe In his pocket and remain
zlum and sour through the rest o'
f.fga .,aaft Wnillt DlIt Il