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Show iminrao'iiiiiittinnmiiimimimt)mwmi)BiiiiCT PATIENCE AND VISION . Link Patience with Vision, work the two in double harness 1 and they will in the end emerge triumphant from "the crash of systems and the wreck of worlds." Vision and Patience stand as a constant rebuke to those who are in much too great a hurry. Haste makes for waste. E That is expccially true, as far as the problems arising out of g our social relations are concerned. And, in this connection, it would probablybe found that social problems never pre- sent a national crisis unless there are a great many people who are in a very great hurry to do something or other. 1 Patience and vision are wise. They know that it is not so much by reason of being served as it is by serving that human J creatures are brought into normal community' relations with s thair fellows. Therein lies the secret of Community Serviceasit j . is now conceived. It is not so much that through Community Service the individual is ministered to as it is that through 3 Community Service the individual ministers to the com- j Imunity. Community Service, organized by Patience and Vision, I constitutes an open door. Through that door the individual j can pass and be something in and for the community. In order to unite those who may be separated by prejudice, by passion, by misunderstanding, it is only necessary to unite 1 them in a common objective. Those who are working for the I same end cannot forever continue working against each ether. Community Service has in our time come to stand for J g both an Organization and for an Idea. As an organization, g I Community Service has back of it thi3 principle: Community 1 1 Service is the" medium through which the residents of a com- I I munity get together and truly become members of it, with a I I consequent real interest in Community well-being, pros- 1 I perity and stability. i Can the thing be done? Not over night, perhaps.- Not by B day after tomorrow, or even by next month. But, in the end B I t Patience and Vision both answer for it. 1 1 .jiiiiiinimiiminiiiiiiijrmu'iiniimnmimtimnioimiwiiiiinmijmDWKHtiiiiiiimiiiiiiimmiiiiiumuiimciwiiuituitimiiireiiiititiunit |