The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1920-02-13
EACH INDIVIDUAL
4 OWES SOMETHING TO
\ HIS OLD HOME Town
Pride in Its Advancement, Too,
Should Lead One to Make
Some Sacrifices For the Pub
* lie Good.
MEN WILL CALL ONE
BLESSED WHO GIVES

Each individual owes something to
the community in which he lives. If
he has spent his life in it, has made
his living and been part of it he may
owe much more than if he has spent
but few years in it. If he has been
a professional man, ministering to
and receiving compensation for his
Services, being a part of the COM
munity in a large degree, then he not
only owes much to it as return but
as natural sequence this return will
be but compensating himself.
We are all part of the community
and what is for the good of one is for
the good of all. No one does, no one
can, live to himself; our duties and
our privileges overlap and we are
each part of the other. When the
community undertakes a big thing
we go into it because of that fact; we
may often go into the proposition
without stopping to analyse this, but
we are impelled into it because our
natures tell us this is the case and our
better impulses lead us on and they
seldom lead us astray.
| We owe much to the past. A
young lad eats of the fruit from an
orchard or vineyard long years be-
fore he is competent to plant and
grow for his own uses and pleasure.
He enjoys manufactured comforts
long before he can or does participate
in the making. Things out Of the
! past become a part of him, then, and
his debt in so much is to the past.
I In the present he has something of
Ia3part but even that is small. The
big accomplishments in this world are
composite, and the individual is a
| small atom. He may do his whole
4 part, all that he can as an individual
land all that the community asks Of
him or wills Of him; but at the best
! it is but a small part.
II He has. too, his duties toward the
\ future. There are, too, in the future
! opportunities and privileges. Some
men see somewhat of their opportun-
lilies hut fail to visualize their priv
I ffHeges. It is q blessed privilege b to
be able to do something for the un-
born generations or even for the
young people born in your day but as
yet too small to do much for them
selves. This last class may the
more fully appreciate what you do fol
the future, for they are living close
enough to you to see more clearly.
The old prophet told Queen Esther
/" Who knoweth whether thou art moi
come to the kingdom for such time
as this ?" What man that has in pos.
, session something sought after by
the people, that is almost an essential
to the growth or blessing of the com.
munity as is life itself, but that car
say to himself just what Mordeca
said to Esther; but that can see that
he may be the very individual who
can and does fully appreciate what
his possessions will mean if given in.
| to the care of the community? He
J may see that it is privilege to be
able to turn over that which is dear tt
: his own heart, and in doing this make
) peace with his own soul and win ap
plaudits of the people with whom he
, has associated for many years anc
!, who have been a part of him in life
5 and prosperity.
!, 1t is a great thing to so live thai
t one wins the esteem of his commun
ity in life; to feel that one has done
\ his part and done it we'll and to know
' that the public recognizes this. 1
t is greater thing to feel that in ad
= dition to this he has been able to hus
band something that he can Civ
S over to this same public that has beel
t a part of him that only he had tn
i opportunity or foresight to garne
d for the day of need.
t A great need of this community a
c this time is site for the propose,
g Community House; a site that will
S fill all the requirements. Who ha
e it; whom is the custodian of such
parcel of land; to whom has been Civ
: N the honor of such possession? No
a doubt exists but such an individua
ill gladly bless his community in sci
ling to the committee at the righ
time; not a doubt but such a posses
sor will recognize this GREAT OF
PORTUNITY FOR COMMUNITY