Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1914-08-04
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THE BROKEN pINIoN

] walked through the wOodlahd
meadows.
Where sweet the thrushes sing
And | found on a bed OF mosses
A bird with a broken wing
] healed It's wound, and each morn
ing
II sang It's old sweet strain.
But the bird with broken pinion
Never scared as high again.
/ found young life broken
By Sins seductive art
And touched with a Christlike pity,
| took him 10 my heart.
He lived with noble purpose
And struggled not In vain.
But the life that Sin had stricken
.Neyer scared as high again.
But the bird with a broken pinion
Kept another from the snare.
And the life that Sin had striker
Raised another from despair
Each loss has its compensation,
There is healing for every pain
But the bird with broken pinion
.veyer scars as high again.
Hezekiah Butterw0rth
we are born to grow-this Is the
word which religion, philosophy.
literature and art ceaslesly utter.
and we can grow only by keeping
ourselves In vital communication
with the world within and without
us" And yet be- careful lest your
pride receive fall The very min
ute we begin To feel so important
that We expect every one 10 rec0g-
niZe our superiority at glance -
the minute We become sure that II Is
the other fellow that Is benefited by
our being" instead of vice versa
then all that we have attained be-
gins 10 crumble and all our great
ness is not worth a fig No one
looks on you as an example because
they have lost faith In your funda-
mental principle True greatness
doesn't need To be- emblazoned and
when one tries 90 herald that un-
recognized fact II Is the surest proof
that you are using an advance agent
10 NlNt II bIfdlfI ufllflfHiNs VI All
the great and complex mysteries of
the world, man Is the greatest. Pos
sessing such qualities of material
that II would seem as II God had
laid aside special blessing, and
then so perverting those qualities
that what might have been q shin
ing light becomes only furnished
tinsel And yet these facts only go
10 prove the dominant factor In the
individual The inspiration gained
from great leader Of men, whose
unimpeachable characteristics be-
come more and more recognizable
on closer intercourse proving that
the external greatness was but the
reflection Of the Godlike spirit Of
the innerman- these are the char
acters that stand AS indestrucable
monuments In the lives of the peo-
pie and whose noble influence will
ever remin inimperishble in the
hearts who know the beauty or real
greatness This Is the greatest Sc
cret of life. the expression of that
higher self that Is in the temple OF
~. God never intended life to be
MliUuUl NlIuENl' anu AhhA - WY
we must be tried not TO be found
wanting What Is all your boast
ing worth II its yehemence II only
in words The most pitiful and re-
gretable thing In all the world |
think Is when one has poured In an
unceasing volley their bat,ering
rams OF self praise into the ears OF
the world. forcing all eyes 10 be
centered on so much greatness and
later 10 change the look of those
seli-same eyes to disappointment
and disgust The voice OF consci-
ence Is the whisper Of God. To
Keep I, ever within reaching dis
lance Is the only sure way We
are servants OF all the laws that
We may be free. says Cicero. To
obey Is the only freedom To dis
obey means the bondage of 'brOk-