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Character 
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By JAMES TERRY WHITE. 
[Copyright, 1909, by the Character Devel- 
opment League.] 
ViI.—Consecration to Duty. 
C the picnic 
T spoken of in 
a former les- 
son there was an- 
other little boy in- 
vited. He had look- 
ed forward to the 
outing all the week, 
but when the 
morning came his 
mother told him 
that a neighbor’s 
child was very iil 
and the mother 
had asked to have 
him come over for 
that afternoon and give him his medi- 
cine, as she was obliged to make ar- 
rangements to have her boy taken to 
the hospital. But this was the after- 
noon of the picnic! Must he give up 
that? He had been looking forward 
to the picnic for weeks, It was a 
struggle. But the little sick boy must 
have an operation performed at once 
if his life was: to be saved. Some- 
body must stay with him. There was 
nobody else to take care of the child. 
He must do it, and he did it. 
Definition.—Consecration to duty is a 
willingness to do good whenever op- 
portunity offers. 
When sympathy is awakened and 
fostered it quickly realizes that the 
great world is full of helplessness, 
ignorance, suffering and crime, and to 
the heart comes a call to do some- 
thing toward its amelioration. 
The awakened sense of duty may de- 
velop in many directions. But the in- 
spiration takes root in the very fiber 
of the soul, and if that soul has had 
woven into it the threads of true liv- 
ing it perceives that this service is 
necessary for its own growth and per- 
fection. Emerson says, ‘Serving oth- 
ers is serving ourselves.,’’ 
This duty begins at home in devotion 
to one’s parents and to one’s brothers 
and sisters. The keynote of filial duty 
should be reverence, for out of the full- 
ness of the parents’ love and ministry 
comes the child’s possibilities and op- 
portunities for development. The key- 
note of fraternal duty should be mu- 
tual service and impartial] love. 
No obstacle, however insurmount- 
able it may seem to the timid or faint 
hearted, can bar the way of any youth 
possessed with enthusiasm for high 
ideals. Phillips Brooks says: “The 
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whole sum of life is service—service 
to others and not to self. No man has 
eome to his greatness who has not felt 
in some degree that life belongs to his 
race.” Mary Lyon, founder of Mount 
Holyoke seminary, used to say: “Go 
where duty calls. Take hold where 
no one else will.” 
There is no condition of life that 
does not offer opportunities for the 
practice of this virtue. Let every one, 
each little boy and girl, resolve to de- 
vote some time at least once a week 
for a visit to some poor cripple or sick 
person and take a loaf or a flower or 
simply a smile and say, “I have come 
to ask if there is anything that I can 
do for you.” Don’t leave this until to- 
Do it today! 
President Woodrow Wilson says: 
“Duty is a very handsome word, a 
very handsome thing, but let every 
man look at it that ; 
he comprehend 
what it really 
means. It conveys 
an obligation from 
within, not merely 
from without. We 
have not done our 
duty, we have not 
even earned our 
wages, when we 
have done merely 
that which we were 
obliged to do. We 
have done our duty 
only when we have done that which 
we know completes the service, when 
we have put the best that was in us 
into the task, our hearts into the bar- 
gain.” 
The nation owes all homage and will 
never cease to delight to honor those 
high bred souls, “dynamos of divine 
energy,” who sacrifice self to duty, 
and it lays the injunction upon all 
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Press Association. 
WOODROW WILSON. 
strong souls, “Go thou and do like 
wise.” 
Practice—Let every boy and girl 
make it the necessary duty of each 
day to do some kindly deed or say a 
kind word to some one in affliction. 
Literature. 
When love hath satisfied thy heart, 
O wakened soul, what is thy part? 
Is’t for thyself alone to keep? 
The Master saith, ‘‘Feed thou my sheep.” 
—J. T. W. 
In the strength of the endeavor, 
In the temper of the giver, 
In the ioving of the lover, 
Lies the hidden recompense. 
—Emerson. 
‘ slept and dreamed that life was beauty; 
woke and found that life was duty. 
; —E. S. Hooper. 
In common things the law of sac- 
rifice takes the form of positve duty.— 
Froude. 
He works with God who works for 
men.—Heber Newton. 
There is only one stimulant that nev- 
er fails and yet never intoxicates— 
duty. Duty puts a blue sky over ey- 
ery man—up in his heart it may be— 
into which the skylark happiness al- 
ways goes singing.—G. D. Prentice. 
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