| Show STAFF WRITERS I 1 elwyn blake aletheia chamberlain marie M ogden dear friends everywhere every where it was henry vandyke who said aid s there J Is only one way to get ready for immortality and that is to love Ws this life and to live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can dB BRAVELY RAVELY faithfully AND cheerfully sounds like a big order but let us think for a moment 1 just what these three words mean and what a return re urn WILL BE OURS if we pay heed to them and live accordingly to meet problems bravely and cheerfully requires or to use a more forceful word DEMANDS FAITH and only tho those who will carry out this type of living under stress of the many trials which beset our world today WILL EMERGE FROM THEM but they will likewise emerge biggot BIGGER AND FINER for such experiences we have friends who are writing to us now who commend our stick and who are beginning to realize our sincerity and many there are who offer sympathy that we must go through some of the tests and trials which we are called upon to bear with I 1 they say they I 1 wish we did not nob have to prove ourselves through such form of hardship ship or so it seems to them and they little realize that they too must be called upon to show si faith and courage as we enter upon the coming coining year no one in life today can escape for we must all go through a refining ai process and no amount of prayer or wishing will allow us to be J favored over and above others no matter where we are we must learn leam I 1 I 1 to think less of self and more of our i fel lowman and we must be willing to 94 play the game fair and square 1 without the undercurrent of selfish ness which marks the average per sons pathway today I 1 selfishness on the part of those who would impose on us and who are ever on the alert to serve the their irown own I 1 interests rather than aan that takey alvy help their less fortunate brothers r ot ars selfish elfish ness on the pirt part of individuals who 1 are arc ever seeking an easy bayout 1 forgetting that we must band to aether now in a common purpose that of establishing a system of living whereby the simple things of life shall be of more account than tile the accumulation of dollars and cents against the so called ra rainy 1 iny day I 1 find so many wild who are fearful of the future and they express wonderment concerning the te future but they are lured into thinking thit thata 1 l better times are ahead because of the continued promises of our na I 1 dional leaders who speak in millions but who reverse tile the figures when it comes to action many of these very ones are also fearful that teat we who are arc struggling to maintain ourselves and to prepare the way for many who will come to us later are being unwisely guided and we take this opportunity port unity to say that our way is becoming less difficult day by day and dehaye among our num berythe bers athe the cyp type it advanced souls alio know how to meet the problems of ench passi passing ng 1 I day and nd week BRAVELY RAVELY Ef faithfully AND cheerfully 1 will not you abe give us the benefit of every doubt rather rat h than to pre delict elict failure for uj s so many ill ny have done and joi n wi th those who 0 h have ave the same kindo faith an and deho 0 are r helping us to e Iea heavenly keavenly venly kingdom hei hee e on this desert land there are a few such in the outer world a as s well and while they are arc Y loin aliat hat they abey can to assist the majority of our faithful ones are pre ve vented from cowing coming to us because they have little or nothing to offer but themselves itald cannot even get themselves here t v t we are not cady to tell you of recent develop mt but we may say again that we progress in several directions as we forge bravely onward meet meeting ing each problem with FAITH and in cheerful manner we send our love out daily to our friends everywhere evely where and we are grateful for that which is reflected back to us tv sincerely yours 0 wayn wa Y yn bat coja |
