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Improvement Era, vol. 10, no. 12, October 1907, pp. 996 to 997

Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations

NOTES. "A pocket full of sunshine is better far than gold." "Commune with nature whenever and wherever she speaks or sings or paints for you, and your divine being, thrilled into intoxication, will mould the physical into sweeter graces." — H. L. Pinae. "Nobody has a right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome." The Happy Life, Charles William Eliot, Harvard. * 'Todayyour day and mine, the only day we have, the day in which we is play our part. What our part may signify in the great whole we may not under- stand, but we are here to piay it, and now is the time. This we know, it is a part of action, not of whining. —David Starr Jordan, Leland Stanford Uni- versity. Esperanto, the new composite language, the inventors of which hope to make it the tongue of international intercourse, is creating more of a stir among stu- dents than was produced by Volapuk, its predecessor. After the recent congress of its friends in Cambridge, England, many of the delegates went to London and attended a service at St. Clement Danes Church, in the Strand, conducted entirely in Esperanto. This is interesting, not only as showing the extent to which the language is being used, but also to the fact that it adds to the number of "nations, and kindreds and people and tongues" by which God is worshiped. — Youth^s Companion.

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