The Family, Volume 7

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American Association for Organizing Family Social Work, 1926

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Page 160 - Sunday, thrilling at the ringing challenge to righteousness laid down by the beloved old pastor; the school boy who had spent long hours during the winter evenings spelling out the story of Job to his aunt while she darned his socks and mended his clothes; the older lad in whose eyes tears welled for a moment that Sunday after he enlisted when the congregation sang with full hearts the stirring hymn " The Son of God goes forth to war — who follows in His train?
Page 62 - Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else— if you ran very fast for a long time as we've been doing." "A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.
Page 233 - Say not, the struggle nought availeth Say not, the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field.
Page 70 - Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
Page 92 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Page 70 - You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Page 62 - Every^Child," and presents the Proceedings of the Third All-Philadelphia Conference on Social Work, held in March, 1925. The publication of this material is of interest from several points of view. In the first place, it emphasizes the importance, actual and potential, of the well-planned city conference on social work. It is pleasant to see the names of laymen as well as social workers among the contributors to this program ; but one wishes that the rich experience of the rank and file of non-executive...
Page 233 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me?
Page 234 - WE cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides ; The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd.
Page 254 - Personality is the sum of activities that can be discovered by actual observation of behavior over a long enough time to give reliable information. In other words, personality is but the end product of our habit systems.

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