Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear: Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored ChalksGriswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph)
Religion
Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear: Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks
Griswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph)
Chalk-talks; Moral education; Religious education
"We refer again to the book of Proverbs, and there we find that 'a
word spoken in due season, how good it is!' It must have been such a
word that the first boy spoke to the second. 'A word fitly spoken,' we
read again, 'is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.' But we
must choose the right words to go along with the smile, and the
greatest danger seems to be that we will say too much, for the same
book of Proverbs says that 'he that hath knowledge spareth his words.'
He knows how to choose and when to stop. Let us remember that the
smile counts for more than mere words. The smile is a universal
language understood everywhere on earth. It is the badge of
friendship, and that is the thing which the world craves.
"A friend of Haydn, the great composer, once asked him how it happened
that his church music was so full of gladness, and Haydn replied, 'I
cannot make it otherwise. I write according to the thoughts I feel;
when I think upon my God, my heart is so full of joy that the notes
dance from my pen.'
"To the one who needs your smile there is nothing else in all the
world, perhaps, that will prove so life-giving. Many a despondent one
has been thrilled with vital power, lifted, and ennobled by the
knowledge that another heart beats with it in tenderness and
sympathy."
WHAT IS BEST?
--Success
--Work
Success Means the Constant Employment of Our Best Faculties in the
Noblest of Service.
THE LESSON--That true success does not depend so much upon what you
get out of this world, as upon what you accomplish for others.
The magic word, "Success," is before each one of us to inspire us to
larger deeds; but let us not forget that many a rich man has made a
great failure of life, while many a poor man has made a great success
of it. The talk deals with the subject in a commercial way, as an
illustration of success in the truest sense.
~~The Talk.~~
"Every one of us desires to be successful. But some of us have one
definition of success while others have an entirely different view.
Many are sure that the attainment of wealth is the measure of success;
some are equally sure that the achievement of political or social
honors marks the arrival at the goal of success; and so on. But, no
matter how we may have defined success, many of us who have fallen
short of our ideals declare in the bitterness of disappointment that
we could have reached the top if we had only had the advantages that
others enjoyed; if we had been helped at the proper time, or if we
could have had enough money or strength.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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