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 WEEK-DAY SCHOOL SERIES 
 
 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 By 
 
 CLARA EWING ESPEY 
 
 THE ABINGDON PRESS 
 
 NEW YORK CINCINNATI 
 
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 Copyright, 1922, by 
 
 CLARA EWING ESPEY 
 
 All Rights Reserved 
 
 Printed in the United States of America 
 
 The Bible text used in this volume is taken from the American Standard 
 Edition of the Revised Bible, copyright, 1901, by Thomas Nelson & Sons, and 
 is used by pennission. 
 
CONTENTS 
 group page 
 
 Introduction 7 
 
 I. YOU, A JUNIOR CITIZEN 
 
 Lesson i. Diamonds and Citizens 10 
 
 Lesson 2. Choosing 14 
 
 II. VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY 
 
 Lesson 3. Following the Star 20 
 
 Lesson 4. Pirates and Policemen 25 
 
 III. A SQUARE DEAL 
 
 Lesson 5. "See Saw, Margery Daw**. . . 31 
 Lesson 6. Paying Your Way 36 
 
 IV. FINDING WISDOM 
 
 Lesson 7. The Game 42 
 
 Lessons. The Wise Owl 50 
 
 V. NEIGHBORS 
 
 Lesson 9. Touchstone Tests 58 
 
 Lesson 10. The Street of the Golden 
 Mile 66 
 
 VI. PATRIOTIC HORIZONS 
 
 Lesson ii. A Real American 76 
 
 Lesson 12. Loving Your Country 84 
 
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4 CONTENTS 
 
 GROUP PAGE 
 
 VII. AEROPLANE SERVICE 
 
 Lesson 13. Bird*s-Eye Views 92 
 
 Lesson 14. Into All the World 97 
 
 VIII. SUNLIGHT LIVING 
 
 Lesson 15. "Old Faithful." 104 
 
 Lesson 16. The Coming of the Sun 108 
 
 IX. THE PATH OF WHITE SHINING 
 
 Lesson 17. Dunce-Cap Talk 116 
 
 Lesson 18. Masks 120 
 
 X. BLUEBIRDS FOR HAPPINESS 
 
 Lesson 19. Down in the Mouth 126 
 
 Lesson 20. Grit Going to Waste 130 
 
 XL TESTS OF COURAGE 
 
 Lesson 21. Everyday Adventures 138 
 
 Lesson 22. When the Crowd Laughs. . 145 
 
 XII. TWO PUZZLES 
 
 Lesson 23. A Rebus 150 
 
 Lesson 24. Wardrobe Puzzles 154 
 
 XIII. COUNTING UP 
 
 Lesson 25. Monkey Living. 160 
 
 Lesson 26. Citizen Treasures 163 
 
 XIV. THE KEEPER OF THE GATE 
 
 Lesson 27. Your Money's Worth. .... 168 
 Lesson 28. Goblins and Genii. 173 
 
CONTENTS S 
 
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 XV. TELLING TIME 
 
 Lesson 29. The Time Bank 180 
 
 Lesson 30. A Mouse in the Clock 187 
 
 XVI. IN HIS NAME 
 
 Lesson 31. "Our Father" 194 
 
 Lesson 32. In Remembrance 197 
 
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INTRODUCTION 
 
 You will notice that the lessons in this book are 
 grouped in pairs and that at the beginning of each of these 
 groups there is a small picture. These pictures are 
 different from the usual illustrations. They are for 
 symbols, or guide signs, to mark the lesson groups and 
 to remind you of the big, important thought that you 
 work out there. 
 
 If you would like to use these little symbol pictures to 
 help you to make a notebook picture-record of your 
 citizen progress and practice, your teacher can get them 
 for you, printed separately, ready for you to use. Then 
 you can earn them as you go along. 
 
 Your teacher and you can work out the plan that you 
 wish to follow in this way of using the pictures. Here 
 are some ideas as suggestions. 
 
 The symbol for Group I can be a special one to be 
 awarded by your teacher when she notices some special 
 citizen-progress or gain. It might be given when a mem- 
 ber of the class reports some fine point observed in some- 
 one else's citizenship, or it might be received by the per- 
 son whose citizen effort or conduct is reported in this 
 way. It might also be gained by a good piece of work in 
 the notebook record, or something special thought out 
 or done. 
 
 The other symbols you might earn by making a 
 special note of something that you do to practice a lesson, 
 or by your bringing to class some of the work suggested, 
 or by memorizing the work that is assigned, etc. Each 
 time you will ask yourself before claiming the point: 
 "Have I truly earned the right to this? Would I feel that 
 
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 it should be awarded to someone else who claimed it for 
 the same reason?" 
 
 Since no two boys or girls are exactly alike, and since 
 the things that happen to them and those that they need 
 to learn and gain are not the same, you will want to 
 answer for yourself these two questions, too: 
 
 1. Need I try to "beat" anybody by the number of 
 points I gain, or shall I try to improve my own record 
 as I know it myself? 
 
 2. Shall I compare myself with others in my efforts, 
 or shall I keep my eyes on the perfect pattern — the 
 citizen ideal "till we all attain unto . . . the knowledge 
 of the Son of God, unto a full grown man, unto the 
 measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, that we 
 may be no longer children, . . . but speaking the truth 
 in love, may grow up in all things unto him who is the 
 head, even Christ"? 
 
GROUP I 
 
 Lessons i and 2 
 
 YOU, A JUNIOR CITIZEN 
 
 When you read the words 
 "Citizen, Jr." you can imagine 
 that your own name is printed 
 beside them, for you are really a 
 Junior Citizen. This means that 
 you are no longer just a child, 
 though you are not yet grown 
 up. You are "sort of in be- 
 tween," getting ready to be all 
 that a citizen can be. In order 
 to work out the different things 
 that you will want to know, it 
 may help you to have a kind of 
 manual, a little book such as you have for your Boy 
 Scout, Girl Scout, Camp Fire, or Woodcraft training. 
 That is what these lessons in this book really are — a 
 manual for Junior Citizens. 
 
 The little pictures that you find with each group of 
 lessons are like the symbols in the other manuals. Each 
 one of them stands for a special thing in citizen training. 
 This one of the boy and girl looking out of a window is to 
 represent all the Junior Citizens wanting to see what 
 citizenship means. It goes with the lessons of this group 
 "Diamonds and Citizens" and "Choosing," which will 
 tell you more about what being a Junior Citizen means. 
 Here are three words for you to think about as you 
 study these lessons in this group. You know the words 
 
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 already, of course, but perhaps you can find something 
 new in them as you study: ''Thy Kingdom ComeJ^ 
 
 LESSON 1 
 DIAMONDS AND CITIZENS 
 
 Have you ever looked closely at a diamond? Is it 
 smooth and round like a pearl? Do you know whether 
 all diamonds are the same shape, and why? When they 
 are found in the diamond fields do they look the way they 
 do when they are set in a ring or in a pin? 
 
 Even though you can answer most of these questions, 
 it will help you with this lesson if you can examine a 
 diamond carefully to see its shape and watch the colors. 
 Perhaps your mother, or your big sister, or your teacher, 
 or somebody else that you know, will let you examine 
 one. It will be interesting and a help, besides, if you will 
 go and look up about diamonds in the encyclopedia, or 
 in your "Book of World Knowledge." 
 
 Perhaps you know of a jewelry store where you can 
 stop and look at the diamonds in the window. Or maybe 
 your teacher or someone you know will take your class 
 to the store and ask the jeweler to explain about diamonds 
 and show them to you. Perhaps you might even get him 
 to come to your meeting or send somebody from his store 
 to tell you about diamonds. As soon as you have a good 
 idea of a diamond and of what it looks like when it is 
 found, you will be ready to hunt for the answer to the 
 conundrum, "Why is a diamond like a Junior Citizen?" 
 
 Here are some clues to help you to find the answer: 
 
 I. The jeweler does something to the diamond before 
 it is ready to be sold. Must anything like it take place 
 with boys and girls if they are to become the finest kind 
 of grown-up citizens? How is this thing done? 
 
YOU, A JUNIOR CITIZEN ii 
 
 2. Why has a diamond several facets? Would the 
 colors be the same if it were curved like an opal? Be- 
 giiming at home, in how many places and ways can boys 
 and girls show their citizenship? 
 
 Now that you are beginning to see how Junior Citizens 
 are like diamonds, perhaps it will be well to talk things 
 over some more. If the sort of living you do is of good 
 quality, then what people see in you is as fine as the 
 beautiful colors of the diamond. Just as far as this 
 quality of yours in life and action is good you will be 
 worth something; you will have high value like the more 
 perfect and valuable diamonds. Think out and discuss in 
 class how this is true. What are you worth in your home, 
 at school, to the Sunday school, to the church, to your 
 community or town, to our country and to the world? 
 
 Say to yourself: "I must be " and "I will do 
 
 ," naming things that you feel will make a 
 
 genuinely valuable citizen in these different ways. 
 
 Though a diamond has many facets, it is a single stone. 
 You can be a Junior Citizen in several ways and yet there 
 is one kind of citizenship that includes them all. It is not 
 easy to find an everyday name for it, but you can dis- 
 cover more about it if you will study these references 
 from the Bible: 
 
 Thine, O Jehovah, is the greatness, and the power, 
 and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for 
 all that is in the heavens and in the earth is thine; 
 thine is the kingdom, O Jehovah, and thou art ex- 
 alted as head above all* — i Chronicles 29: ii. 
 
 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; 
 
 A scepter of equity is the scepter of thy kingdom. 
 
 Psalm 45 : 6. 
 
 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as 
 it is in heaven. — ^Matthew 6: io» 
 
12 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 You see the word "kingdom" in every one of these. 
 Those who live in a kingdom are citizens there. These 
 verses speak of God's kingdom, so it must be that who- 
 ever belongs to God is a citizen of his kingdom. So how 
 would it do if we called the big kind of citizenship that 
 takes in every kind the "Citizenship of the Good"? Don't 
 you think that the word "good" describes the quality of 
 citizenship that you want to show at home, in school, and 
 elsewhere? 
 
 Next, suppose you look at something Jesus said about 
 God's kingdom. It is in verses 20 and 21 of the seven- 
 teenth chapter of Luke. This is what it says: "The 
 kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither 
 shall they say, Lo, here! or, There! for lo, the kingdom 
 of God is within you." The marginal reference says 
 "In the midst of you." 
 
 "Within" and "in the midst of you" — how can this be 
 true of God's kingdom? If it is "within" you, it must be 
 the way you think and feel and are; and if it is "in the 
 midst of you" it is in the spirit of the actions that you and 
 other citizens show toward each other. Perhaps this will 
 help you to think it out: One reason that you know that 
 you are an American citizen is the way you feel about our 
 country. You like its customs and what it stands for. 
 People from other nations coming here, many of them, 
 decide to become Americans because of the way they feel 
 about our country. They like it too. And so people who 
 belong to the Citizenship of the Good are those who 
 care about being good. They want godlike lives such as 
 Jesus lived. 
 
 When you were a child you learned the Lord's Prayer, 
 but maybe you never have happened to think that every 
 time we pray, "Thy kingdom come," we are really asking 
 that we and everyone else shall have the godlike lives 
 
YOU, A JUNIOR CITIZEN 13 
 
 that should be lived by people who belong to the Citizen- 
 ship of the Good, the kingdom of God. 
 Jesus tells us about this kingdom conduct in Luke 6: 
 
 27-33: 
 
 But I say unto you that hear, Love your enemies, 
 
 do good to them that hate you, bless them that curse 
 you, pray for them that despitefully use you. To him 
 that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the 
 other; and from him that taketh away thy cloak with- 
 hold not thy coat also. Give to every one that asketh 
 thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask 
 them not again. And as ye would that men should 
 do to you, do ye also to them likewise. And if ye 
 love them that love you, what thank have ye? for even 
 sinners love those that love them. And if ye do good 
 to them that do good to you, what thank have ye? 
 for even sinners do the same. 
 
 And in verse 35: 
 
 But love your enemies, and do them good. 
 
 Think out and be ready to discuss in class how you as 
 a Junior Citizen of God's kingdom can prove it by con- 
 duct of this sort at home, in school, in church, and in 
 other places. 
 
 As you think these things over decide whether you will 
 be willing after this to hurry over the words of the prayer 
 "Thy kingdom come." 
 
 Special Work 
 
 Look up Matthew 5 : 3-1 1 and see what additional help 
 you can find for deciding about real citizenship conduct. 
 
 If you have already memorized the Beatitudes, the 
 verses from Matthew, you might take for your memory 
 work on this lesson the verses from Luke that are printed 
 out in the lesson text. 
 
 Write in your notebook some ways that you decide to 
 try to improve your citizenship. 
 
14 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 LESSON 2 
 CHOOSING 
 
 When you have some money to spend and want to buy 
 an apple or an orange, you know how to choose. You try 
 to find the very best one you can, the largest and the 
 nicest. You want one as perfect as possible. If an apple 
 has a bad spot or an orange has a spoiled place in it, you 
 do not choose it. You do not want it. Though the other 
 part is good, the fruit is not good enough in quality to 
 suit you. You know how to choose. 
 
 If mother sends you to the store to buy a box of straw- 
 berries, or a head of lettuce, or some tomatoes, you try to 
 pick out the best basket of berries, the nicest lettuce, or 
 the most perfect tomatoes. You want the very best 
 when you choose — something as fine as you can get. 
 
 And when you go to buy a new dress or a suit you would 
 not think it fair if the storekeeper charged the same 
 price for one with a torn place in it, or one with some of 
 the buttons off, as he would for one that was all right. 
 You would be very quick to choose another one that was 
 perfect. You would want the very best for your money. 
 Nothing but the best would be good enough. 
 
 Although you are sure that you know about choosing 
 in these ways, are you certain that you do the same sort 
 of choosing in other things? Many boys and girls do not. 
 They work at a lesson or at a job very carelessly, and 
 then say that what they have done is ^'good enough,'' 
 and want to let it go at that. ''Good-enough" boys and 
 girls, the principal of one school used to call them. Do 
 you know any of them? Do you ever do such things 
 yourself at school or at home? What sort of choosing is 
 that? Do you think other people want your low-grade 
 goods? And how do you act when they show they dis- 
 
YOU, A JUNIOR CITIZEN 15 
 
 approve? What do you suppose is wrong with your 
 citizenship when you do these things? 
 
 A baby wants to please itself. It wants to have what- 
 ever it wants, whenever it wants it, and doesn't think 
 about other people or what is best, or any time but right 
 now. It hasn't learned to live in any bigger way. Do 
 you see how a "good-enough" boy or girl is still somewhat 
 in the baby stage? A grown person who has truly grown 
 up knows what he wants and tries to have it, but he 
 always has to count in something else — the way things 
 ought to be; and if what he wants is different from what 
 ought to be, the best citizen chooses "what ought to be." 
 
 Junior Citizens are at the between stage. They really 
 want to be good. They know and feel what ought to be. 
 And yet they are often pulled more toward what they 
 want to do than what they know they should do. But 
 they have come to the practice time for growing up. 
 
 Some grown people seem never to have grown up in 
 this way at all. You do not want to be one of them. 
 Unless you Juniors make better citizens than many 
 people are now, how can the world improve? It is up 
 to you. 
 
 This learning to choose is a very big thing. Just stop 
 a minute and think things over. Think what difference 
 it would make if everybody always chose the best way of 
 living. Next, just for fun, remember one of the days 
 when you did not choose right. Think back and see what 
 happened. If you had chosen differently, how would it 
 have changed your day? Do you wish now that you had 
 chosen better? Why? 
 
 Perhaps you will agree with the man who says that 
 being good is doing what we would wish we had done, 
 after the action gets "ripe." Baby living, doing just what 
 we please, because we want to do it, feel like it, or don't 
 
i6 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 want to do something else that we should do — couldn't 
 we call that a sort of "green" living? It never really 
 tastes very good except for the time, and it makes a lot 
 of trouble all around. 
 
 How do savages act when somebody displeases them? 
 When you think of the ugly feelings you had that time 
 when somebody showed you how "green" your way of 
 living was, do you think the man was right who said that 
 being good is acting like civilized people instead of like 
 savages? Which would you really rather be? If you can 
 get the habit of choosing every time to do what you'd 
 wish you had done when the thing was ripe, do you see 
 that you will have learned a lot about citizenship and 
 will graduate from the baby class? Then you can say 
 what Paul did in i Corinthians 13: n: '^When I was 
 a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as 
 a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away 
 childish things." 
 
 On Decision Day, or at some other time, you probably, 
 decided that you would choose to live as God wants you 
 to. You made the big choice that you would try to live 
 as a Christian should. But as you go on Uving you find 
 it hard. Things do not seem settled entirely by that one 
 big decision. This is not surprising, for they cannot be 
 unless you keep repeating and practicing it day after day 
 in your many little decisions for your problems of 
 conduct. 
 
 In a way you can have a decision day at any minute. 
 That is what will help. Then you will build a habit of 
 right choosing. When the times of deciding come — those 
 little minutes when you choose which way you will let 
 yourself act — stop and ask yourself, "Do I want 'baby' 
 living, 'green' living, 'savage' living, or the kind that is 
 grown up and ripe and civilized?" If you are really fair 
 
YOU, A JUNIOR CITIZEN 17 
 
 about it, you will find yourself deciding, ''Of course I 
 would rather have God's life show in me as it did in 
 Jesus than to do this thing that seemed easier and 
 that I thought I wanted to do/' You will find out 
 that you want only what is best. If you find it hard 
 to be fair and to think straight, open your heart to 
 God as you pray, "Thy kingdom come in me just now." 
 Then the choice will be easier. The oftener you 
 practice this the easier it will be. If you keep up 
 the practice, it will become as natural as it is for 
 you to breathe. 
 
 Suppose you try it for a week. Do the very best you 
 can, all day long, to choose what you know you would 
 wish afterward that you had done. Perhaps it will help 
 you here in this work if you count up at the end of the 
 day and see what choices you have made. Keep a record 
 of how many there are. If sometimes you make the 
 wrong choice because you do not look at things fairly, or 
 because you don't feel like it, do not be discouraged. 
 Don't say that it is no use to try, or that it is too much 
 work. Making a person is not easy. Don't act like a 
 baby learning to walk, who has tumbled down and lies 
 there squalling. Pick yourself up again, pray, know 
 that God forgives you, forgive yourself, and go on. 
 That is how we all learn; that is how we build up 
 our spiritual habits, habits that let us walk with 
 God. 
 
 Never mind if you do not understand all about choos- 
 ing yet. There will be more about it in later lessons to 
 help you. Practice in it will go on as long as you live. 
 Grown-ups are not perfect in their choosing. We all are 
 growing, together, toward what Paul calls "the measure 
 of the stature of the fullness of Christ." 
 
i8 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 THINKING IT OVER 
 
 When you were little you probably learned the Com- 
 mandments. Suppose you think of them now, one by one, 
 and see how they are helps to guide citizens. Look and 
 see what Jesus said about them in Matthew 22:35-40. 
 Does this help you to see that being a good citizen of 
 God*s kingdom means putting God first in everything and 
 doing the sort of choosing that will turn out to be **best 
 for everybody"? Go over the Commandments again and 
 think it out. See how the first ones tell the citizenship 
 relations between ourselves and God. Then see how the 
 things forbidden in the others are of a kind that would be 
 * 'green" living. See whether when such choosing "gets 
 ripe" in action it proves to be best for everybody. Think 
 how such choosing would spoil good citizenship. 
 
 Turn to your record of choices for the days you recorded 
 them. Are there enough good ones to show that you are 
 making progress? 
 
 How many times has it helped you to pray the words 
 **Thy kingdom come"? 
 
GROUP II 
 
 Lessons 3 and 4 
 
 VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY 
 
 Do you love to read about 
 the adventures of the discoverers 
 and explorers, the work of in- 
 ventors, and the Ufe of pioneer 
 people? Does it make you long 
 to go on voyages of discovery 
 yourself? Do you wish that you 
 might have adventures that 
 would be as thrilling as theirs? 
 You may do so, in a way, and 
 yet stay at home and go to 
 school and do all the other cus- 
 tomary things. In the next two 
 lessons, "Following the Star" and "Pirates and Police- 
 men,'' you may learn something about these adventures 
 and discoveries. 
 
 Of course the symbol for this group must be a star 
 because of the north star and the mariners' compass that 
 are the explorer's friends and guides. Perhaps you will 
 want a slogan for your expeditions. Many an under- 
 taking has been carried to success that way. "Don't 
 give up the ship" and "Make the world safe for 
 democracy" are two famous slogans. Here is one that 
 you can have for yours as you study now: "Be your 
 best boss." 
 
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 STAR LED" 
 
20 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 LESSON 3 
 
 FOLLOWING THE STAR 
 
 You remember the story of the three Wise Men. It is 
 in Matthew 2: i-ii. Here is part of it: 
 
 Now when Jesus was bom in Bethlehem of Judaea 
 in the days of Herod the king, behold, Wise-men 
 from the east came to Jerusalem, saying. Where is 
 he that is bom King of the Jews? for we saw his star 
 in the east, and are come to worship him. . . . And 
 they, having heard the king, went their way; and lo, 
 the star, which they saw in the east, went before 
 them, till it came and stood over where the young 
 child was. And when they saw the star, they rejoiced 
 with exceeding great joy. 
 
 Had you ever thought that they were on a magnificent 
 adventure, exploring the world for miles and miles in 
 search of the Christ-child? People then, many of them, 
 were expecting his coming, but most of them were not 
 thinking about it as much as the Wise Men were. From 
 a far country these men journeyed, following the star. 
 Nobody told them to go. They found out about it them- 
 selves, and went. As the star led them they followed, 
 followed, until they had found the Christ. 
 
 Like them you can explore, but in a different way. 
 Probably you have begun already, but have not realized 
 what it meant. Do you want to try to do different things 
 just to see if you can, and to learn how they are done? 
 If you do, you are wanting to explore. Do you want to 
 find out about lots of things — what they are made of and 
 how to use them? If so, doing that is another way of 
 exploring. Do you hate to be bossed — to be told what 
 to do by somebody else? Have you begun to feel that 
 you can do big things some day? Those feelings, again, 
 
VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY 21 
 
 are signs that you are longing to explore what it means to 
 live as a citizen, as one who is no longer a child but a self- 
 reliant person. These things do not mean that you are 
 ready yet to be an independent individual, but they do 
 mean that you are ready to get ready to be one. Of course 
 you see that there is a difference, but perhaps it might be 
 well to think it out and discuss it in class. If you will go 
 back to Lesson 2, where we talked about choosing, you 
 may find some clues. 
 
 All of these desires of yours for voyages of discovery are 
 the beginnings of what grown people call by the long 
 words "initiative" and "self-reliance." If you will look 
 up the meanings of these words in the dictionary, espe- 
 cially in one which tells what the different pieces of the 
 words meant when they were first used, you will find 
 something interesting. 
 
 Perhaps you will like to check yourself up and find out 
 how much initiative and self-reliance you have already 
 gained, what voyages of discovery you have already 
 made. Here is a plan for testing yourself and your power. 
 You will be able to think of other plans yourself, and in 
 that way too you will be developing still more initiative. 
 
 Ask yourself: 
 
 How many tools do I know how to use correctly and 
 
 weU? 
 How many machines can I run and keep in order? 
 Do I know how to fit window shades when they pull 
 
 off the roller, and can I stop a dripping water faucet? 
 Can I "make a bed" scientifically? 
 Can I make good bread — all by myself? Manage the 
 
 oven, too? Do I know why faults come? 
 When I pass a show window, how many things can I 
 
 name that I have seen in one good look? 
 
22 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 What can I do to help entertain guests? 
 
 What ''kind turns'' can I do? 
 
 Can I keep sweet tempered and courteous when things 
 
 go wrong? 
 How many psalms and other Scripture verses have I 
 
 memorized? 
 
 These are only a few test questions. We could easily 
 make the list very much longer. You now see what a 
 variety of voyages of discovery are waiting for you. Let 
 the boys try things that girls usually do. There is no 
 telling when you may need such knowledge either for 
 yourself or to help out as a good citizen does in a dif- 
 ficulty. 
 
 Now you are ready to think a little more about the 
 thing that will guide you in your voyages of discovery 
 just as the star guided the Wise Men. It depends on the 
 way you choose to use your initiative and self-reliance 
 whether you make of yourself a good citizen or a poor 
 one. If you use them just to prove how smart you are 
 and to get your own way, or to have people praise you, 
 are you star-led? For example: When you play basket 
 ball, do you care more about making showy plays or 
 about helping your team to win? 
 
 Would you like to learn how to practice for the better 
 way, the way that shines like a star? 
 
 Ever since you were little you have known that God 
 made you and that your life comes from him. Perhaps 
 you know what Paul said in two different places. Look 
 them up, anyway, in Acts 17: 24 and 28. 
 
 Notice especially these lines — 
 
 he himself giveth to all life^ and breath, and all 
 thingSi 
 and 
 
 for in him we live and move and have our being. 
 
VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY 27^ 
 
 Every bit of initiative and self-reliance you have must 
 be a part of God's life power shining out from you, if your 
 being is in him, must it not? Whether you are a good 
 citizen or a poor one depends on the way you choose to 
 use this precious and holy thing. 
 
 Jesus said that he came in order that we might have 
 life, and have it abundantly. He showed us how to use 
 God's life, which we had scarcely dared to think we might 
 do. Your voyages of discovery are adventures that you 
 long to make in the Land of Abundant Living. What you 
 need is to learn how to use more and more of the life and 
 power of God as you follow them. This is your star. 
 
 In Lesson 2 you began to understand how a citizen 
 chooses; and now, since you know that the power with 
 which you live is God's life in you, you will want to be 
 especially careful to watch whether the voyages of dis- 
 covery that you undertake are things that you will be 
 glad to have God's life u^ed for. 
 
 Think of one of the adventures in abundant living that 
 you would like to undertake. Let us suppose it is learn- 
 ing to play a musical instrument. As you study and 
 practice and think about your work remember that your 
 power to do it comes from God. Know that as you use 
 it, more and more of this power will come, so that you 
 will make a greater progress than you could if you did 
 not think of him and ask his help. 
 
 And so you will find it true in things of other kinds. 
 Maybe it is wanting to be independent that is your 
 adventure. You can find your way in this region that you 
 have never explored by following your star and remem- 
 bering what you do will use God-given power and must 
 be worthy of it. 
 
 As you go on, learning to do things well, you will want 
 to find ways to use in citizen fashion what you have 
 
24 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 learned, and to share it with other people. If you are 
 learning to play, it will make it more fun to practice if 
 you do it partly for the sake of being able to give pleasure 
 to the family and to guests by playing nicely for them. 
 Think of some of your own desires and try to find ways 
 of citizen-sharing for them. Ask God to show you how. 
 As you pray and plan you will cultivate more initiative 
 and self-reliance and you will find new adventures and 
 discoveries. You will learn more about being your own 
 best boss. And by learning to live this way — in the 
 strength of God — in many kinds of undertakings you can 
 have lots of fun in achieving them. 
 
 Try to think how this can be true in such adventures 
 as the following: learning lessons for school, the use of 
 tools, driving a horse, telling funny stories, remembering 
 jokes to tell, making folks happy by special things you 
 do, being good-natured, working out puzzling thoughts 
 in what you have read, earning money for something you 
 want for yourself, for a surprise, to do something for 
 somebody less fortunate, or to give to missions. Some 
 things will take longer than others because there is more 
 to learn about them. But you will find it easier and 
 easier to work if you will do it in this way. And so the 
 star will go on guiding you all your life long in new 
 explorations. 
 
 Test Work 
 
 How many points for initiative and self-reliance have you 
 
 scored this week ? 
 Write out on paper in your own words the things you need 
 
 to remember in practicing the habit of following your 
 
 star. You can put it in your notebook if you choose. 
 Look back over the week and see whether you have been 
 
 combining what you learned about **choosing" with 
 
 your initiative. 
 
VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY 25 
 
 Choose some new thing in which you can try for self- 
 reliance, something that you never have tried before. 
 Then watch yourself and see whether you put it through 
 successfully. This will help your initiative as well. 
 
 Look up Revelation 22 : 16 and see if it helps you any to 
 discover the star of your best self. This may take some 
 thinking, but you have initiative and self-reliance 
 enough to do it. 
 
 Memorize the last sentence of the verse from Revelation. 
 
 LESSON 4 
 PIRATES AND POLICEMEN 
 
 Why do you suppose that almost every Junior Citizen 
 enjoys pirates and is interested in policemen? Are they 
 anything alike? Do you think either of them shows 
 initiative or self-reliance? Can we let them stand for two 
 kinds of citizenship — the one that results from baby 
 living and the other that makes a Junior or Senior 
 Citizen who lives according to the rules of good citizen- 
 ship? 
 
 Let us think about pirates first. A pirate is a man who 
 tries to do just as he pleases. He does not want to obey 
 law but defies it. He wants to be his own boss. He does 
 not consider other people's rights. He wants everything 
 he can get, for himself — rather a good-sized baby, don't 
 you think? And a very bad waster of the life power which 
 he has from God? Now, these things we do not like. 
 
 And yet, somehow, we enjoy him. We like him because 
 he has courage, because he dares to do hard things, be- 
 cause he has initiative, because he is self-reliant, because 
 he wants to be free. Every one of us has longings of this 
 kind. Often these feelings are very strong, especially in 
 Junior Citizens, who are at a time when they want to 
 know and feel and show that they are real persons. They 
 
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 want to prove that they have courage to dare. They 
 want to feel that they have initiative, that they do not 
 need to be bossed, nor even told what to do. 
 
 In a way they are right, though they do not always see 
 how to work it out. Life power, a holy thing as we know, 
 is welling up within them, urging them to be and to be- 
 come and to achieve. They have reached the practice 
 time that prepares for independent Kving as citizens. As 
 a rule, they know fairly well what they ought to do. They 
 do not need to be told by anybody. But though they 
 want to boss themselves they have a hard time because 
 they think they would rather be free to do whatever they 
 choose instead of what they should — that which brings 
 the greatest good to the greatest number. They would 
 like to live as pirates in the Kingdom of Myself instead of 
 enjoying citizenship in the Land of Abundant Living for 
 Everybody. They haven't learned yet to be their own 
 best boss. 
 
 Now let's think about poUcemen. They are men who 
 try to help folks to do as they ought, to make the right 
 choices. They must have courage and strength. They 
 must be self-reliant, and they often need initiative. A 
 policeman has the power of the law behind him. Junior 
 Citizens like to watch one because he embodies so many 
 things that they want for themselves. They admire his 
 strength and his power, and wish they were like him. 
 They think it would be wonderful to be able to command 
 and to be obeyed as he is. They would hke to feel that 
 some power was back of them, strong enough to make 
 them feel invincible. And so they imagine themselves in 
 his place just as they do with the pirate, and it gives 
 them a thrill of freedom and power. They enjoy seeing 
 that he is boss, just as they would like to be. 
 
 Besides, in a way, a policeman stands for obedience to 
 
VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY 27 
 
 law and respect for authority — doing what ought to be 
 done. The traffic officer is one where this shows very 
 plainly. He works the "Go-Stop*' signals or blows his 
 whistle and indicates which way is open and which one 
 closed to vehicles at that moment. When he tells a driver 
 to stop, the man has to do it whether he wants to or not. 
 Because the officer represents the law everybody must 
 respect his authority. He is really there to help. People 
 must obey. They cannot drive just where they please 
 and whenever they choose. All must play fair. 
 
 This thing of obedience and respect for authority is one 
 of the hard problems for some Junior Citizens to work 
 out. Because they still want so much to do as they please 
 it is hard for them to be obedient and respectful. They 
 feel that the time has come when they should begin to 
 boss themselves. And this is true, if they only knew how 
 to do it right. If they had to wait always to be told to 
 do things, they never would become citizens of fine 
 initiative and self-reliance. You can see what a great 
 puzzle they have to solve. 
 
 Perhaps it will help in your study of obedience if you 
 turn to two places in your New Testament. The first 
 tells about Jesus when he was a boy, a Junior Citizen. 
 Look in Luke 2:51, where he went home with his parents 
 after being in the Temple, and was ^'subject," or obedient 
 to them. If he did so, why not you? The other reference 
 is in Matthew 21: 28-30. It is one of the parables that 
 Jesus told about two sons — not the prodigal one, but the 
 other story. 
 
 Can you see these two young fellows and what they do 
 and say? Have you ever felt or done what either of them 
 did? Let us think about them and see what citizens can 
 learn from them about obedience. Perhaps we may find 
 a surprise. 
 
28 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 The first one acted with a good deal of the "baby" 
 spirit at first. When he was told what to do he said, in- 
 side, "I'm not going to/' "I don't want to," and he told 
 his father, "I will not go." He wanted to be his own boss, 
 something like our pirate. But as he got to thinking 
 things over he repented and changed his mind entirely. 
 He made a new choice — to obey. Nobody compelled him 
 to do anything. His father probably knew nothing about 
 it, for most likely he was somewhere else. This time the 
 son obeyed completely, and was more the boss of himself 
 than before because he overcame his first babyish action 
 by choosing to do as he had been asked. He retained his 
 initiative and self-reliance and used them in obeying. 
 
 His brother had just the same unwillingness to obey, 
 but let his father think he was going to do it. He seemed 
 to have kept his freedom and to have bossed himself. 
 Had he? Or was he a slave to his desire to show how 
 independent he was and to his wish to do as he felt like 
 doing? Was this being his best boss? 
 
 Suppose that the first brother went to the vineyard 
 because he felt that he had to, because he was afraid of 
 his father, or because his father had "made" him go. 
 Imagine how he would grumble and protest inside, and 
 really stay away in spirit. Have you ever done anything 
 like that yourself? Then were you really obedient even 
 though your body obeyed? And were you your own boss, 
 or did something boss you — your wish to do as you 
 pleased? 
 
 As you think about these two brothers can you see that 
 obedience means a great deal more than just the act 
 required or forbidden? That even though we may seem 
 to obey we may not really be obedient? 
 
 Obedience and respect for authority are things that 
 are within us. Nobody can compel us to obey. Folks can 
 
VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY 29 
 
 compel our bodies, perhaps, but the choice, after all, re- 
 mains with us. We are free to choose. But we must 
 choose whether we are going to indulge in pirate living, 
 that seeks its own wishes only, or choose to be our own 
 policeman, who decides what is best and who has all the 
 power of the law behind him. 
 
 What is the law — the law of love, of course? "Thy 
 neighbor as thyself," you know. And the power behind 
 the law is God's life which is ours to use. We learned 
 something about these things in the lesson on "Following 
 the Star." Do you begin to see now, how they work out? 
 Think carefully, remembering some time when you your- 
 self did not fully obey, and some other time when you 
 truly did. 
 
 Are You Learning? 
 
 Look back over the week that has been finished and then 
 watch for a week and see how many times you act as 
 your own policeman and make yourself obey. 
 
 Give an example of how being afraid of somebody stops 
 only the act and not the want to, even when a person 
 seems to obey. 
 
 What is wrong with pirate living that makes it poor 
 citizenship ? 
 
 Why should we have respect for authority? 
 
 Suppose nobody ever asked you to obey or told you what 
 to do from now on ? Are you boss enough of yourself to 
 do your own choosing and be sure that it would prove 
 to be "best for everybody"? Just what sort of things 
 would you do if you were perfectly free to choose? 
 Would you choose play entirely? Grade your citizen 
 value honestly for yourself. 
 
 Just as if you were reading a story in a book or a magazine, 
 read the first six chapters of Nehemiah and see in how 
 many ways it belongs with these two lessons. 
 
 Has it helped you to have the slogan, '*Be Your Best Boss" ? 
 
GROUP in ^ 
 
 Lessons s and 6 
 
 A SQUARE DEAL 
 
 The symbol for this group of 
 lessons is a pair of scales, to in- 
 dicate balancing or making 
 things even, since we are going 
 to study about "A Square Deal" 
 for everybody. Perhaps this 
 may remind you of what we 
 studied about "Choosing." The 
 two are related, yet they are 
 different. One is a sort of first 
 cousin to the other. 
 
 Here is the first half of a scrap 
 of verse to go with the lessons. 
 It will be a good plan to memorize the lines so that you 
 can think them over as you study. Later on, too, you will 
 want them so you can put them with the lines that are 
 left blank. Those you will discover when you are ready 
 for them. 
 
 "WEIGH IT FIRST' 
 
 Thinking 
 
 "Some folks are thinking *me and mine,' 
 And some are thinking *thee and thine.' 
 
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A SQUARE DEAL 31 
 
 LESSON 5 
 "SEE SAW, MARGERY DAW' 
 
 Here is a conundrum for us to work out in this lesson: 
 How is a seesaw like playing fair? If you ever made an 
 old-fashioned seesaw by putting a board across a barrel 
 or over a wooden "horse/' or if you have ever watched 
 and played with a "teeter'' on the playground, you will 
 remember the up-and-down motion by which it worked. 
 You probably did not stop to think that the balancing of 
 the board made the fun. You just knew that when one 
 child went up the other went down, and that when a 
 larger child sat on one end the board had to be moved 
 over and made longer on the other end where the smaller 
 child sat. If you didn't, the "teeter" would bump and 
 stick. 
 
 In "playing fair" there is a balancing between one side 
 and another. Anything which gives one person more than 
 he should have, or less than his share, spoils the balance, 
 and people protest. Citizens, big and little, count a great 
 deal on "fair play." You know how quickly somebody 
 exclaims, "That isn't fair," if one child tries to get more 
 than his share, or if he seems to be given something nice 
 that the rest may not share. Citizens are quick to object 
 — when it is somebody else who is having the advantage; 
 but do you think they are half as inclined to feel it if they 
 themselves are the ones who seem to be benefited, or are 
 claiming what they want? Even if they do have a sort of 
 prick in their minds telling them that all is not right, 
 don't they usually try to prove that they have a right 
 to the thing, or excuse their actions as they would not 
 excuse somebody else? And don't they often try to blame 
 the trouble on somebody else, even if they began it? 
 
32 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 Isn't it funny, when you stop to think how blind and 
 stupid they are! 
 
 Think of the child, or maybe yourself, who always 
 wants to have his own way, or else he will not play; and 
 the girl who wants to have the best "part" if a play is 
 being planned, and will not "be in it" unless she can star. 
 Do you think these folks realize that they are to blame 
 when the others do not like what is done? Do you think 
 that playing fair requires us to look at ourselves as clearly 
 to see what we have done as if we were watching someone 
 else? 
 
 Perhaps you do not see how it can be done. There is 
 an interesting way that helps when you learn how to use 
 it. It is like looking in a mirror to see yourself. You 
 know that when you smile as you look into the glass, you 
 see a smile, and when you frown and look cross, you see 
 a grouchy sort of person looking back at you. 
 
 You can learn to use other people as a sort of mirror in 
 which to see yourself. They are like a looking-glass 
 showing you the way you look at them. So, if people dis- 
 approve of you, or are cross, stop and look at yourself. 
 Try to see yourself as you would look if you were in their 
 place. It is possible that they are the cranky ones, but 
 how are you looking back at them? Perhaps they may 
 be mistaken about you and be blaming you unjustly. 
 You'd like to think so, but you'd better make sure. Take 
 a good look. Maybe you are like the youngster who went 
 running to mother crying bitterly and complaining as a 
 spoiled child does, "Sally Jones hit me!" And when the 
 mother asked what the child had done to Sally, at first 
 the answer was, "Nothing"; but further questions 
 brought the sobbing admissions: "Knocked her down — 
 and pulled her hair — and broke her new Christmas dolly 
 — and she hit me!" 
 
A SQUARE DEAL 33 
 
 Maybe you have been doing something like that 
 and blaming the other person. Be sure to take a 
 good look whenever somebody else seems cross to 
 you. 
 
 It is a man-sized lesson to learn, this playing fair by 
 being willing to look at our own faults and to admit our 
 share of the blame. Some people now grown never learned 
 to do it as children, and are in trouble all the time and 
 think that the world is abusing them. Perhaps you may 
 know somebody like this. If so, you do not think that 
 person is such a happy citizen that you are wildly eager 
 to be like him, do you? Then look out — watch your step 
 — by seeing that you give a square deal. 
 
 Perhaps it will be a good plan now to think about a 
 few of the little mean things that you may catch yourself 
 doing — unfair things: cheating in a game in order to 
 try to win, saying unkind things about somebody's 
 dress or appearance, trying to play out of turn, taking 
 advantage of somebody's misfortune, trying to slip in 
 ahead of your turn in a line that is waiting to buy tickets, 
 being cranky when you are called to get up in the morn- 
 ing, being unwilUng to be obliging or to do errands, mis- 
 representing the facts about something that has hap- 
 pened, telling unkind tales, and similar acts. Think of 
 others from the way you act yourself with the folks at 
 home, at school with the teacher, on the playground, on 
 the athletic field, at Sunday school and church, and in 
 the community. 
 
 Now write out a new list of what you should do instead. 
 
 When somebody blames and criticizes you for some 
 supposed meanness, will it help for you to be ugly about 
 it even if the blame is unjust? What does citizen conduct 
 call for? There are two Bible references to help you 
 decide, Proverbs 15: i and Luke 6: 27, 28: 
 
34 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 Here they are: 
 
 A soft answer tumeth away wrath; 
 But a grievous word stirretfi up anger. 
 
 and 
 
 Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, 
 bless them that curse you, pray for them that despite- 
 fully use you. 
 
 To make a gentle answer and to be loving were things 
 that Jesus seemed to expect citizens to do. He wanted 
 them not to be overcome of evil, but to overcome evil 
 with good. Think about the Proverbs reference. Do you 
 see the pictures that you will find in the mirror of other 
 people's faces? Make a gentle answer. If you do, you 
 can have a lot of fun watching the change in the mirror. 
 Try it next time and see. 
 
 It may be that some of the boys will think that Jesus 
 did not mean what he said when he spoke of turning the 
 other cheek. There may be times when they feel that 
 they must fight instead of acting as inoffensively as this. 
 Of course you know that fighting is, in a way, going back 
 to the savage level; that if two men begin to fight on the 
 street, the policeman takes them in hand as misbehaving 
 citizens. 
 
 If you boys do not feel that you can be your own 
 policeman enough to avoid a fight, then police yourselves 
 enough to fight for a weaker person, for a just cause, and 
 to fight fair. Don't lose your tempers and don't be mean. 
 Be "good sports" and obey the rules as a boxer has to 
 learn to do. Some day you will find that you neither 
 need nor want to fight, and you will find that what Jesus 
 says is best. 
 
 What is wrong with Margery Daw's seesaw when you 
 are unfair? What makes the balance wrong? Is it loving 
 
A SQUARE DEAL 35 
 
 ourselves more than our neighbor when it should be 
 even — one just the same as the other? You really do not 
 want to be unjust; you want a square deal for him as 
 much as for yourself. What do you think of these steps 
 toward making things more even and helping to balance 
 the seesaw again? — 
 
 1. Admit your fault to yourself. 
 
 2. Admit it to God and straighten things out with 
 him. 
 
 3. Watch for a chance to do a special kindness to the 
 one you have wronged, and so try to make it up to him 
 for the ugly thing that was so unfair. 
 
 Only a citizen of character and backbone has courage 
 enough to do these things every time he has been unfair, 
 but they are worth all the effort they cost. You will find 
 that if you make a habit of doing them each time you 
 are at fault, you will be slower to get yourself into such 
 trouble again. And as you go on loving, you will feel less 
 like being mean. Remember that the other person is 
 God's child as well as you. Be careful how you treat him. 
 Show your love of God by your love of others as Abou 
 Ben Adhem did. Leigh Hunt has written a poem about 
 him and his visit from an Angel, who appeared in the 
 moonlight of his room, writing the names of those who 
 loved the Lord. He asked the Angel to "Write me as 
 one that loves his fellow men," and then 
 
 **The Angel wrote and vanished. The next night 
 It came again with a great wakening light 
 And showed the names whom love of God had 
 
 blessed, 
 And lo! Ben Adhem*s name led all the rest." 
 
 See If You Know 
 What is the trouble with a citizen who does not play fair? 
 
36 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 What do you think other citizens can do to help such a 
 person? 
 
 Make a list of any mean things you may have done this 
 week. Nobody else need see it. Look it over carefully 
 and see exactly what you have done to straighten each 
 thing up. Do not let a single one of these accounts 
 against yourself stand without deciding what to do to 
 redeem it. Then see that you liiake things square with 
 the other person. **Be your own boss'* in this. 
 
 LESSON 6 
 PAYING YOUR WAY 
 
 Did you ever stop and count up just how much you 
 cost your father and mother in a week, or a month, or 
 a year? If you haven't, you will find it very interesting 
 to do so. Suppose you try it. What are the different 
 ways in which they must spend money in order to let 
 you live as you do: for clothes and food, of course, and the 
 expense of keeping up the house — your share of the rent 
 or taxes, and the light and the heat and the 'phone, if you 
 have one, etc.? Count up all the money they give you 
 to spend for different things that you want, if you have 
 no regular allowance. Get them to help you in working 
 out the account. You can set down the different items 
 and add them up to see how much they make in all. 
 
 Besides these items there may be doctors' bills and 
 dentist bills, and also a great many things that cost some- 
 body's time instead of money, such as darning and mend- 
 ing and all sorts of personal services that you probably 
 are accustomed to take for granted just because you are 
 used to having them done and so have never thought of 
 them as worth money. 
 
 And probably it has never occurred to you to ask 
 
A SQUARE DEAL 37 
 
 yourself how you are paying your way in return for all 
 that is being spent on you. You want to play fair. How 
 about it in this? Perhaps you are looking forward to the 
 time when you can earn money yourself. Maybe you 
 think that the boy or girl who has a job is a sort of hero, 
 because he can bring in money and help to support the 
 family in a way that you cannot yet do. Find out whether 
 that other boy or girl is losing chances to get ready to 
 earn far more later on than will be possible now because 
 of leaving school and having no further training. And 
 see whether, after all, the biggest way of taking a share 
 at home is always by earning money. Can you help to 
 cut down family expenses by demanding less for 
 yourself or by doing something that has to be paid 
 for now? 
 
 There are other ways in which you can help to make up 
 for what is spent on you. You expect to get what you 
 ask for, and often act ugly if you do not get it. Is there 
 anything besides being pleasant that you can do in re- 
 turn? A baby takes everything without thinking 
 about doing anything. It is too little to know. But 
 are you? 
 
 Perhaps all of us — ^grown people and Juniors, and even 
 little folks — need to change our thinking about home and 
 living together. We feel that home belongs to us, and 
 that we have a full share in its privileges; but when there 
 is work to be done the story is different. We'd rather that 
 wouldn't be ours. Isn't it funny! And often when Juniors 
 are asked to take their share they think that it is some- 
 thing they have to do for father or mother, something 
 that spoils their fun, something disagreeable that they 
 want to slide out of doing. They haven't realized that it 
 is only a part of their share in living together and making 
 a home. Grown folks often feel bad, because of the way 
 
38 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 Juniors act, for thinking that each one should take a 
 share is "grown-up" thinking, and they suppose that the 
 Juniors have ahready begun to think this way, when in 
 fact the Juniors haven't quite caught up yet and haven't 
 realized that there is anything unfair in what they do. 
 
 How do you feel when you are asked to do something 
 or have "regular work'' to do? Do you "just hate it"? 
 Do you get tired of having the same thing to do every 
 day, especially when you want to do something else? 
 Wouldn't father and mother like a change from the 
 things that they have to do whether they want to or not? 
 You don't expect them to shirk. Do you want them to 
 do all you have to do besides their own? Of course not! 
 
 Maybe they feel that you are not willing to do any- 
 thing at home but will do all sorts of things for a neighbor 
 whom you Hke, or at a friend's house when you go there 
 to visit. Do you know, yourself, why you do this? Why 
 do you think mother is unreasonable when she com- 
 plains? You do not like it when she tries to get you to 
 play fair. What is wrong with your citizenship? 
 
 One reason why you like to work somewhere else is 
 because it is a change, the place is different and the things 
 and the people. And another bigger reason is because you 
 donH have to do it. You do it because you choose. 
 
 Now, just suppose you were to choose to claim the 
 right to do the same work at home, and take your share 
 because you want to play fair and see that everybody 
 has a square deal; suppose you were to do it before any- 
 body had a chance to ask you for it, before any demand 
 could be made that would take away part of the fun and 
 so leave you feeling that you had to do it — wouldn't it 
 please the folks and wouldn't you have a lot of fun in 
 surprising them? 
 
 There is a new plan that is used in the home of some 
 
A SQUARE DEAL 39 
 
 Junior Citizens whose father is a well-known man. Every- 
 thing that is done by anybody in that home is done on 
 the basis of its being a privilege to be allowed to do it. 
 Everybody has a definite share of things to do. The small 
 folks, of course, have the easiest things. They are eager 
 to be allowed to try the harder ones, but know that they 
 must earn the right to the "privilege." If a little boy is 
 given a chance to care for the furnace, he is happy in 
 being promoted to a bigger responsibility in helping to 
 make the home and take care of it. But if he goes off to 
 play and neglects the furnace, even once, the "privilege" 
 is taken away and given to someone else, and he feels 
 as ashamed as a soldier is when he is degraded in rank 
 and reduced to being a private after having been an un- 
 worthy officer. 
 
 As you think over the plan used by this family do you 
 think that it solves the problem of playing fair and giving 
 each one a square deal? Are they right in regarding 
 work as a privilege? 
 
 Now, as you think of yourself and your own home, how 
 would it be for you to try to discover, right now, how 
 much of the "square deal for everybody" depends on 
 your initiative, depends on your making a start toward 
 a new plan. Who is not having a square deal? What 
 changes can you start? How can you get everybody to 
 thinking of the square-deal idea? How can you convince 
 somebody who wants to stay in the baby stage and 
 laughs when you talk about work and sharing being 
 "privileges"? 
 
 And you might turn to Matthew 7 : 2 and see what 
 Jesus says there. Do you think this applies to home 
 living? Next turn to John 13: 1-17 and see what he did 
 to teach some folks who did not want to do a servant's 
 work. 
 
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 Finishing Up 
 
 How many ways have you found of paying your way at 
 home? 
 
 Make a list of all the things that have to be done regularly 
 by somebody at home, daily. Does each person do his 
 or her part? Are you sure that you are carrying your 
 share of responsibility and privilege? 
 
 Do you think that the Junior Citizens owe anything to 
 the community as well as to their homes? Why? How 
 can the obligation be met ? This will start you to think- 
 ing about something that you will study more in 
 another lesson. 
 
 Do you remember the two lines of verse at the beginning 
 of this lesson group? Here are the other two that were 
 blank there. That will finish up: 
 
 How different the world would be 
 If every one were thinking *we'!" 
 
GROUP IV 
 
 'A WORD TO THE WISE" 
 
 Lessons 7 and 8 
 
 FINDING WISDOM 
 
 There is a good reason why 
 an owl is chosen as the symbol 
 for this group of lessons which is 
 about school citizenship. If you 
 will look in the encyclopedia, 
 you will find that the Roman 
 people had among their deities, 
 Minerva, their goddess of wis- 
 dom. The owl, they thought, 
 was Minerva's bird, perhaps be- 
 cause it looks so "wise" with its 
 big, wide-open eyes. And so, 
 because every School Citizen is 
 in the business of looking for wisdom of many kinds, the 
 owl — the bird of wisdom — naturally is a good symbol for 
 the achievements that belong with lessons on finding 
 wisdom. 
 
 It is fun to find things. You know the quick, un- 
 expected happiness that it usually brings. If you find 
 something that you had lost, you are happy to have it 
 again. If it is a thing that a friend has lost, you feel good 
 to be able to discover it for your friend; and if it is some- 
 thing whose owner you do not know, there is always the 
 possible chance that if it cannot be restored to the loser, 
 you may have it to keep yourself. Of course keeping it 
 without trying to find the owner spoils the happy feeling, 
 but that is not what we are talking about. What we 
 
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 mean is the sort of joy and feeling of adventure that 
 comes, just as it did to the old-time discoverers of lands 
 and treasure, and as it does now to inventors who have 
 worked and worked on an idea and at last find the way 
 to achieve it. 
 
 Here is some old Hebrew poetry about wisdom. You 
 will see that the first word is * 'happy," just the very thing 
 that we have been talking about. It is the special word 
 for you to keep in mind. After you have read the poetry 
 through, you will find the word in the last sentence too. 
 It will be a good plan to memorize this poetry on the 
 happiness of having wisdom, for it is very famous. 
 
 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, 
 
 And tiie man that getteth understanding. 
 
 For the gaining of it is better than the gaining of 
 
 silver, 
 And the profit thereof than fine gold. 
 She is more precious than rubies: 
 And none of the things thou canst desire are to be 
 
 compared unto her. 
 Length of days is in her right hand; 
 In her left are riches and honor. 
 Her ways are ways of pleasantness 
 And all her paths are peace. 
 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: 
 And happy is every one that retaineth her. 
 
 — ^Proverbs 3 : 13. 
 
 LESSON 7 
 
 THE GAME 
 
 Does it seem queer to you to think that you and your 
 schoolmates, and your teachers as well, are playing a 
 game? Think it over and see if it isn't true. As you may 
 have guessed already, the game is "Being a Good 
 
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 Citizen." It is something like playing ball — the way 
 children toss from one to another and then catch. Here 
 are some of the balls you throw: The things you think, 
 and say, and do. The ways you act toward your school- 
 mates and the teachers are different kinds of "throws." 
 And, of course, the teacher and the other boys and girls 
 have to catch and return the ball, just as you do theirs. 
 
 This game of being a School Citizen means more than 
 just learning things. It has to do with ''folks" as well. 
 In it you can be "happy" in "finding wisdom" and in 
 getting understanding in ways that you may not have 
 counted before. 
 
 In this school game of yours there is a mysterious 
 partner that plays too. Everybody has one. You cannot 
 play without the partner, yet you cannot see it because 
 it is a sort of shadow self made up of all the things that 
 your ancestors handed down to you and everything that 
 you ever have experienced from the beginning of your 
 own life. It depends on you to do its thinking and decid- 
 ing. It seems to have plenty of feelings and desires, but 
 to be short on reasoning things out. That is left for you 
 to do. 
 
 Do you wonder, then, that when the blur of feelings is 
 strong the plays made in the game are sometimes very 
 queer? Being a sort of Siamese Twin of yours, your 
 partner — this shadow you — sometimes helps; and then, 
 again, it hinders by playing tricks on you because of its 
 mistaken ideas or because it wants its own way, regard- 
 less of the rules. But when you with your thinking and 
 it with its feeling work together, the game goes beauti- 
 fully and you have a happiness as satisfying as you do 
 when playing ball and miss neither throw nor catch. 
 
 Suppose, now, that you see if you recall some times in 
 school that correspond to that. You felt the teacher liked 
 
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 you, and you liked her too; and though she gave you 
 "lots of work'' you really loved to do it and were glad to 
 go to school. The teacher and her partner-twin and you 
 and yours were playing then according to the rules. You 
 '^learned a lot" and had a happy time. And if some child 
 had been unkind or bothered you or her, the rest of you 
 would soon have shown quite plainly that you thought 
 such actions were unfair. They would have spoiled your 
 happiness and would have hindered all the work you 
 wished to do and what you felt the school should be. 
 
 But sometimes an other-self is out of sorts and jogs 
 its partner's elbow or gives him a big push exactly when 
 he throws the ball, so that everything goes wrong. Per- 
 haps it is the teacher's twin, perhaps it is a child's, that 
 spoils the pleasure that was. The teacher may be very 
 tired and easily upset because some other thing went 
 wrong before she came to school. And so she may begin 
 to scold or criticize for little things she would not mind on 
 ordinary days. And very often this is just the time when 
 Junior Citizens act worst and take what may have hap- 
 pened for excuse to misbehave. Their twins begin to 
 jerk around and throw mean, ugly balls. But times like 
 these are chances for all citizens to help by being kind 
 and playing fair, although the balls the teacher tosses 
 may be very hard to catch. Those who play the proper 
 way discover then new kinds of happiness and a priceless 
 bit of wisdom that will help them anywhere if things are 
 going wrong. They "understand" that they control their 
 twins instead of being flung about by them, and this 
 helps on the game. 
 
 But, as a rule, the teacher's twin is not the one that 
 starts to throwing "wild." Some boy or girl who hasn't 
 done the work that's been assigned, or is feeling cranky, 
 or resents something that is said, has a twin that's feeling 
 
FINDING WISDOM 45 
 
 guilty, and so makes the whole room unhappy and is 
 also very wretched himself. The silly twin may whisper, 
 "Just annoy her all you can," and it very often urges, 
 "Answer back." It says, "She wants to boss you," 
 although no other person can. It likes the fuss of being 
 scared and testing strength with "her." No matter what 
 "she" says or does, it isn't satisfied. It hates both school 
 and teacher just because it hates itself. Since this is just 
 the very thing it wishes to deny, it tries to put the blame 
 on others and destroys the fun for all. 
 
 Sometimes a citizen may find this shadow twin of his 
 is acting mean and cranky though he knows no reason 
 why. If you happened to remember times when your own 
 twin did this, perhaps you'd like to "understand" from 
 where such trouble comes. 
 
 This "other-one" of each of us does many freakish 
 things. It mixes facts and people up, because it only 
 feels and does not think. What happens now gets all 
 mixed up with what has been before. And since this twin 
 is very proud, it tries to hide mistakes and to prove that 
 all it does is absolutely right. 
 
 Long, long ago, when you were small, perhaps this 
 "other-one" got scared, or had its feelings hurt when 
 someone seemed to boss or criticize. That made it sad 
 and mad and gladi Sad because it didn't want to admit 
 that it could be at fault, mad because someone interfered 
 with what it wished to do, and glad because it enjoyed 
 the chance to test and prove its strength in fighting back. 
 It felt that if it could make other people uncomfortable, 
 it proved how strong and big it was! Silly, wasn't it? 
 
 Sad and mad and glad — all mixed up in one wild whirl 
 of foolish feeling! Then the next time something hap- 
 pened it jumped to the sillier idea, "This is that thing 
 again." And though perhaps it wasn't even with the 
 
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 same person when the newer trouble came, your silly self 
 just hurled at him a great, wild, ugly feel in which the 
 old-time fury was increased by all the new. Then, if the 
 other person was not very wise to help, your foolish self 
 got sadder and madder and gladder with every act or 
 word. Because it couldn't reason and it didn't under- 
 stand, you found that you were puzzled and felt the world 
 was wrong. 
 
 Then, since this sort of thing kept on time after time 
 — five hundred or a thousand times maybe, as days grew 
 into years — you now can see quite easily the crazy, 
 jumping, feeling-whirl your shadow-self was in, each 
 time banging harder at another person's ball and blaming 
 him for all that happened from the first until the last. 
 And so you see that now your shadow-self is fooled and 
 doesn't know the truth. A very tiny, unimportant word 
 by someone seems like a slap on the shoulder to knock 
 off the "chip" it carries there as an excuse to fight. And 
 so a sullen mood begins, when you're not feeling well, or 
 haven't learned your lessons, or would rather go and 
 play. A single word at times like this, though not un- 
 kindly meant, brings on a big explosion, like dynamite, 
 for example, or TNT. 
 
 Yet all the time your shadow-self was treating you this 
 way your good, clear mind forgot to work because your 
 twin was fooled. If you had seen that all the fuss was 
 just a huge mistake, you never would have let your twin 
 make those wild sorts of throws. So now^ when happen- 
 ings like these occur, just take a good square look, and 
 see the hidden reasons why your twin is being fooled, and 
 see that what your shadow sees is not the truth at alL 
 
 Whatever now annoys you is a very little thing com- 
 pared with all the old procession for which it gets the 
 blame. It isn't fair to hurl the ball in some blind, angry 
 
FINDING WISDOM 47 
 
 way to pay for what does not belong with what has just 
 occurred. Before you dare to throw the ball, decide 
 which you will choose, the siUy, angry, shadow way, un- 
 fair to other folks, or what is best for all — an angry mass 
 of feeling, or to show the loving child of God, which you 
 know you really are. You must decide to use your head 
 to teach your silly self, instead of being fooled by it which 
 does not think at all. You know which is the shadow 
 that brings wretchedness; and you know the child of 
 God has happiness and peace. 
 
 If you explode, then stop a bit, and see if this wild way 
 is something like some other time, and how you felt be- 
 fore. Just chase the shadow right straight back and see if 
 you can find the lot of funny grudges that were in your 
 shadow's heart. You'll see how silly it all is, and that 
 you really want to be a loving, godlike citizen, instead of 
 "blowing up." Time spent like this will help you much, 
 for as you live and grow, your shadow will not trick you 
 into acting like a fool. 
 
 Once in a while it also happens that a teacher's twin is 
 not quite grown up, and plays her ugly, nasty tricks in- 
 stead of helping her. Perhaps she never learned about 
 the shadow-one at all, nor how to be the person 
 that she really wants to be. Perhaps she finds the 
 children's twins reflected in her own. Then if a child 
 shows disrespect or naughtiness, her twin may jolt 
 her arm because she does not know what you have just 
 been taught. 
 
 One funny thmg about it all is that no one really sees 
 exactly what is taking place, and so, of course, each 
 blames the other for what occurs, and thinks its side is 
 right. At times the silly other-selves of all the class join 
 in. They say "her" voice is sharp and mean; they think 
 she is unkind. And some of them are half-afraid, and 
 
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 some may tantalize, and everyone will wish the time for 
 going home would come. Then, often after days and 
 weeks of silly strife like this, the imps just try to tease 
 her to see what she will do. They do things to get even, 
 and call her "an old crank/' although if they could see 
 their twins, the crankiness is shared. 
 
 When times like this come the game of citizen is 
 spoiled, for everyone who takes a turn at pranks to tease 
 the teacher throws a ball that is not fair. And if the 
 teacher doesn't catch it right, and if her twin spoils her 
 throw, true citizens should pick up the ball and hand it 
 back so she might have another try. 
 
 Real catching means achievement, and tossing means 
 it too. It means that from your lessons and from all that 
 may occur, you're learning more and "being" more and 
 "doing" more than you have done before. When you are 
 very busy there's no time for foolish tricks. You'd very 
 much rather just do your work than stop for "monkey- 
 shines." And this is what should happen in your school- 
 room game of ball. 
 
 A first-class citizen will learn to educate his twin for 
 playing fair and choosing well, to have a happy time in- 
 stead of wrecking everything in jealous, bitter strife. 
 He's busy "finding wisdom" that will choose the better 
 way. He learns to understand his twin that it may help 
 him make the game a joy and a delight. He's getting 
 "understanding" that enables him to show in all his 
 actions a self aglow with God, who shines with love in 
 everything that goes to make the game. 
 
 Remembering that "meekness" means without strife 
 or irritation or ugliness, you'll find some things to think 
 of in these verses from James, 3 : 13-18. Here are the 
 verses printed so that you can study them easily. Point 
 out as many places as you can where they seem to 
 
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 describe what we have been studying about School 
 Citizens and the way to play the game. 
 
 Who is wise and understanding among you? let 
 him show by his good life his works in meekness of 
 wisdom. But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction 
 in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. 
 This wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down from 
 above, but is earthy, sensual, devilish. For where 
 jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every 
 vile deed. But the wisdom that is from above is first 
 pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, 
 full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, with- 
 out hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is 
 sown in peace for them that make peace. 
 
 Exercises 
 
 Watch for a week and see how you play the game as a 
 member of the School Citizens* team. 
 
 In what ways does your twin try to trick you? 
 
 What is your real self like, and where does it get the 
 power to be different from the shadow one? 
 
 Sometimes your teacher or someone else becomes a mirror 
 of what is seen in you. Look up Exodus 34: 29-35 ^^^ 
 2 Corinthians 2: 12. Never mind if you do not under- 
 stand it all. Get the main idea. Then read this verse 
 from the same chapter in Corinthians. 
 
 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in 
 a muTor the Glory of the Lord, are transformed into 
 the same image from glory to glory, even as from 
 the Lord the Spirit. 
 
 Are you veiled with a shadow, so that you cannot find an 
 answering glory in the mirror of your teacher's face? 
 
 How can you bring out the glory in your parents and 
 chiuns and teachers? What is your share in the game? 
 
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 LESSON 8 
 THE WISE OWL 
 
 Here are some lines from some postcard verses that 
 describe "a gay young owl" who sat in a tree and nearly 
 broke his neck by twisting it around to see everything 
 that was said and done. 
 
 "Thus day by day he wiser grew, 
 The more he saw, the more he knew. 
 The more he knew, the less he talked, 
 His wisdom in his heart he locked. 
 
 "As silence grew he grew more wise, 
 Looked more the sage with rounder eyes, 
 Till of his wisdom all have heard. 
 Let's imitate that famous bird." 
 
 If you really know about owls, you probably have been 
 smiling over these verses and over the old-time idea that 
 owls are specially "wise." You know that instead of 
 being alert they seem rather stupid, especially in the day- 
 time. If you go up to one suddenly and press its feathers, 
 it may arch itself and blink at you with its round, staring 
 eyes. It may rufHe up its feathers until it looks like a 
 mischievous joker with a big round face. It is this wise 
 look, probably, that has given it such a reputation 
 through hundreds of years from very ancient times down 
 to to-day. 
 
 Although the postcard verses are only nonsense and 
 give the old-time idea of an owFs being wise, it is fun to 
 find out some of the things that are hidden in this tale of 
 the wise owl. Whoever wrote it had discovered some 
 very true things about people: 
 
 I. That if they observe carefully they can learn much. 
 
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 2. That when they are thinking things over they are 
 too busy to talk. 
 
 3. That the more they think things out, the wiser 
 they become. 
 
 If you think, you will see that this gay young owl who 
 became so wise had a real purpose behind his looking and 
 thinking. He wanted to know about the world, he wanted 
 to learn and to understand what he saw and heard. This 
 is quite as true about you as a Junior Citizen too, isn^t 
 it? — although maybe your teacher at school does not 
 think from your "silence'' that you've grown so wise that 
 you show that your mind is so busy trying to observe and 
 think things out that you haven't time for idle chatter. 
 So perhaps she would like you to do some imitating of 
 the owl's wisdom of silence. 
 
 But it is about the thinking part of the owl's wisdom 
 that you probably are most interested. Perhaps you are 
 puzzled to know about ways of thinking at all, and how 
 they can bring wisdom. This second lesson for you as a 
 School Citizen is to help you to begin working out this 
 very puzzle about thinking, so let's begin. 
 
 First, you may enjoy watching yourself for a while to 
 see how you think. You'll want to find out how far on 
 you are from the kind of thinking that young children like 
 most to do most of the time, and how near you have come 
 toward real "grown-up" thinking. Here are questions 
 for you to ask yourself: 
 
 Do I spend a great deal of time "daydreaming"? 
 
 When I am working on a problem or trying to study, 
 does my mind stay on what I have to do, or does it skip 
 out of the window and away to play or to something 
 that's happened or something I'm going to do? 
 
 If you daydream, and if your thoughts wander about 
 when you should study, then you haven't found the way 
 
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 out of child thinking. Truly grown-up thinking is dif- 
 ferent from these because it is busy trying to accomplish 
 something. Think a minute: is there any difference be- 
 tween the daydreaming sort of thinking and the kind you 
 do when you are trying to build a bird house or find out 
 how to make a dolFs dress, or something of that kind? 
 
 Which kind do you need in order to study your lessons, 
 to work out problems, or to decide what it were better to 
 do in order to accomplish something you want? Now, do 
 you begin to understand a difference between the two 
 kinds of thinking? It is the second kind that the owl in 
 the postcard verses is supposed to do and to have used 
 in order to become so "wise." That is the kind you will 
 "imitate" as a School Citizen in order to search out the 
 treasures of the finest wisdom. 
 
 There are more ways of describing the two sorts of 
 thinking. Suppose you decide among them as if they 
 were conundrums to be answered: 
 
 In which kind of thinking do your thoughts go strolling 
 around from place to place as if they were tramps or 
 beggars? 
 
 In which kind are they like explorers and discoverers 
 who have learned to use the compass and the stars, and 
 many other things in order to guide them on their 
 journey to the places to which they wish to go? 
 
 Which kind results in nothing but a "feeling" inside 
 you? 
 
 One kind gives the sort of pleasure that a child has 
 when sucking a thumb. The other is like eating a fine 
 dinner. Which is which? Why? 
 
 In one kind of thinking the thoughts boss you. In the 
 other you are master of the thoughts and make them do 
 things for you. Which is which, again? 
 
 One trouble with the childish kind of thinking is that 
 
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 it is a kind of fake: the daydreams are not the kind that 
 really come true. They are not plans carefully thought 
 out and backed up with strong purpose to make them be- 
 come facts. They are just like the desert mirages that 
 youVe read about — nothing real at all. Your mind force 
 is used up — for nothing of value. 
 
 Suppose you were going along the street carrying a 
 bag of corn under one arm and did not know that there 
 was a hole in one corner from which the grain was drop- 
 ping out behind you one kernel at a time. That is the 
 way your day's energy leaks away in daydreams. If a 
 baby tears up a Bible or a hymn book or a prayerbook, 
 you do not think the child has sinned, but if you waste 
 the life energy which is a holy thing with its source in 
 God, then you must hold yourself accountable. Now you 
 know better than to do the childish thinking. 
 
 There may be times when that twin of yours of which 
 we spoke in the other lesson, may say to you : "Oh, come 
 on; don't bother. Let's have a good time and take it 
 easy, dreaming." Then will be a fine chance for you to 
 train it in purposeful acting and the kind of thinking that 
 makes a citizen of character. You see, your twin likes 
 nothing better at all than to dream, so it can put off doing 
 something that takes real effort. It hates to work. If 
 you do not train it, it will spoil your chances of success 
 many a time. It will make you "a putter-off" instead of 
 a person who achieves. It will divide your mind in two 
 and pull one way with half of your energy going toward 
 play, while the other half may make believe to be work- 
 ing. That splits you up into pieces of a person instead of 
 giving you a chance to focus all your efforts the way a 
 magnifying glass does the rays of the sun when you burn 
 a hole in paper. If you do as your lazy twin wants you to, 
 it will be like trying to walk upstairs with one foot going 
 
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 one way and the other starting off in the opposite direc- 
 tion. You will not get anywhere. And that would mean 
 being a failure instead of "glorifying God'' by making a 
 fine success. 
 
 It will pay you to think this out carefully, and con- 
 sider it as the owl did what he saw and heard. Then you 
 will not be misled because you see even some grown 
 persons dreaming instead of doing. Here are some of the 
 reasons why such persons act as they do: 
 
 They are lazy-minded and don't want to exert them- 
 selves to do good, quality thinking that makes things 
 happen. 
 
 They think they enjoy themselves better by day- 
 dreaming and make-believe. They have not found out 
 that what they call "work" would bring them a fine kind 
 of pleasure if they'd just get busy and achieve something. 
 
 They have bound themselves by the habit of waiting 
 until later to begin instead of starting right away when 
 a thing should be begun. 
 
 Often there's something that they want to "put off" or 
 avoid doing because it takes effort or because they do 
 not hke it. They know that the thing they are trying to 
 escape will have to be done sooner or later, but they just 
 play ostrich, which is said to hide his head in the sand 
 when he is in danger, and think he is wholly concealed. 
 They poke their heads into the dream sands to make- 
 believe escape. 
 
 Real thinking is a fine achievement. It is something 
 that we learn by degrees. By means of it we discover how 
 things resemble each other or are different. We find out 
 the causes of things, and what we can do to achieve what 
 we desire from the materials we have. We learn relation- 
 ships between things and the results of their actions. We 
 discover rules to guide our conduct and to avoid past 
 
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 mistakes, as well as to achieve new undertakings. We 
 build ourselves, our character, and our future success. 
 
 As you think about these things suppose you turn to 
 the story where Jesus was talking about a man who was 
 going to build a tower. It is in Luke 14: 28. If you are 
 going to build a person, you will have to "count the cost'* 
 of your thinking and not waste your Ufe materials in day- 
 dreaming. Every desire you have, every wish, every 
 thought can go into the making of you if you learn right 
 thinking and plan your tower to be a structure worthy of 
 God's child. When you daydream you may knock down 
 some of the rows that you have been building; if you do 
 poor thinking on lessons and other tasks, you will be 
 leaving holes in your walls and making unfit openings for 
 doors and windows. Quiet, steady work, conscientious 
 work from day to day is the kind that results from true 
 wisdom. 
 
 Prove Your Wisdom 
 
 Do you work a little on the easy studies and let the harder 
 ones wait until the last, and then maybe do nothing at 
 them after all? 
 
 Do you try to do two things at once? This splits you up 
 and gives only half your power to each of them. 
 
 Are you half hearted in your work? Or dead in earnest? 
 
 Do you put off doing things and then try to make up for it 
 by a grand rush? 
 
 Do you work by spurts or steadily, purposefully? Re- 
 member the fable of the tortoise and the hare. Which 
 are you? 
 
 Are you a quitter who says things are "too hard'' because 
 you are too lazy to try? 
 
 Test yourself for a period of days and see if a noted 
 business executive is right when he says that the biggest 
 part of getting things done is getting them ''started.'' 
 See how many more things you accomplish because you 
 
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 begin them promptly, than you would do if you delayed. 
 Solomon says in Proverbs 4:7: 
 
 Wisdom IS the principal thing. Therefore get 
 
 wisdom; 
 Yea, with all thy getting, get understanding. 
 
 In how many ways are you getting ** wisdom'* and * 'under- 
 standing" through your school citizenship? 
 
GROUP V 
 
 WHEREVER YOU LIVE" 
 
 Lessons 9 and 10 
 
 NEIGHBORS 
 
 If you look in the next to the 
 last chapter of the book of Rev- 
 elation, you will find that the 
 "holy city" is described as 
 
 . • . coming down out of 
 heaven from God, having the 
 glory of God ; her light was like 
 unto a stone most precious, as 
 it were a jasper stone, clear as 
 crystal: • • . And the build- 
 ing of the wall thereof was 
 jasper and the city was pure 
 gold, like unto pure glass. • . . 
 
 And the street of the city was pure gold, as it were 
 
 transparent glass. 
 
 Jasper walls and gold streets — what have they to do 
 with our group of lessons about "Neighbors" and a little 
 symbol picture of a street "wherever you live"? Jasper 
 and gold are not the way things appear to you perhaps, 
 but there is a real connection. You may begin to get a 
 glimmer of light if you will first remember that back in 
 Lesson i we talked about the citizenship of the good, the 
 kingdom of God, when we began to learn that in Him 
 we "live and move and have our being." Now, look at 
 the quotation from Revelation and see "from God," 
 "having the glory of God," "her light was like ... a jas- 
 per stone." The Uttle picture of a street fits in with the 
 
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 Revelation verses too — "and the street of the city was 
 pure gold." Something as beautiful as this is what our 
 community living and citizenship can mean if we know 
 the full meaning of being "neighbors." 
 
 Of course you do not yet see all the reasons why jasper 
 and gold belong in our thinking about common, everyday 
 places wherever we live, but the rest is part of the citizen- 
 ship secret that you are about to discover in the lessons 
 on "Touchstone Tests" and "The Street of the Golden 
 Mile." 
 
 In the Revelation chapter there is a verse that we left 
 out at first, but must not miss: 
 
 And he that spake with me had for a measure a 
 golden reed to measure the city. 
 
 What our citizenship "reed" is you will find in Luke 6:31, 
 something that you have heard about ever since you were 
 little: 
 
 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye 
 also to them likewise. 
 
 Here is a citizen reminder of it that may have a familiar 
 sound and yet is a little different from what you usually 
 have heard or said: "Remember the Rule that is Golden." 
 
 LESSON 9 
 TOUCHSTONE TESTS 
 
 When you read the word "touchstone" what do you 
 suppose it means? And what connection can there be 
 between touchstone tests and the city of jasper and gold 
 that symbolizes community citizenship? The encyclo- 
 pedia tells us. 
 
 Touchstone is a very fine-grained, dark-colored variety 
 of jasper used for trying the quality of alloys of precious 
 
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 metals. The alloy is rubbed on the stone and the streak 
 compared with that of various alloys of known composi- 
 tion prepared for that purpose and called touch needles. 
 It was formerly used for determining the fineness of 
 gold. Touchstone also means "any test by which the 
 qualities of a thing are tried." 
 
 So there we are: jasper and gold, and tests by which 
 the qualities of a citizen are tried! 
 
 Before we are quite ready to go ahead with our testing 
 we must prepare some "touch needles." Since community 
 citizenship depends on relations between people, let's 
 start by trying to discover why we like or dislike folks. 
 Well begin this way. 
 
 THE COMPANIONS YOU LIKE 
 
 Those who like you. 
 
 Those who are good sports, not afraid to play the 
 game fairly and squarely. 
 
 Those who are strong and can do things. 
 
 Those who are kind and considerate. 
 
 Those who stand up for you when things are hard. 
 
 This is only a "starter" for the list. Finish it your- 
 self. Then we'll go ahead and prepare another 
 *^touch needle." 
 
 GROWN PEOPLE THAT YOU LIKE 
 
 Those who are "nice" to you. Maybe they give 
 you candy or cookies, or other things that you 
 like to eat. Perhaps they give you money to 
 go to the movies or to buy things you want. 
 Maybe they take you to places — to shows, 
 picnics — or on hikes, etc. 
 
 Those who do not nag you. 
 
 The ones who smile at you, and make you feel 
 they like you. 
 
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 Those who "understand" how it is when things 
 go wrong, and who do not always blame you for 
 things that you do not mean to do. 
 
 Those who are able to do things that you admire. 
 
 The ones who "believe in you" and make you feel 
 that you are nice and that you can be some- 
 body worth while. 
 
 The kind who, though they seem to scold some- 
 times, do it in a way that makes you want to 
 do the thing you should. 
 
 The kind that you are not afraid of, to whom you 
 can go and tell things that bother you, and ask 
 questions that you do not understand. 
 
 Those who may not say or do anything special for 
 you, yet somehow something comes from them 
 to you and draws you to them. 
 
 Put down other ideas for the list if they come to you. 
 
 You want as complete a set of needles as you can 
 make. 
 
 The next two sets are just the opposite of these 
 two. One you can work out by yourself. It is 
 why your companions like you, and what you need 
 to be so that they may like you. The last set 
 is different and a little harder, so you will need 
 more help with it. 
 
 WHY OLDER PEOPLE LIKE YOU 
 
 Because you are "well behaved." 
 
 Because you are reliable when you have something 
 
 to do or have given a promise 
 Because you are thorough in the things you undertake. 
 Because they see you succeeding in your own affairs, 
 
 if you show leadership, initiative, ability to do 
 
 and make things. 
 
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 Because you have fine qualities that promise much 
 
 for your future. 
 Because you are adding to your natural ability and 
 
 developing it by study or practical effort. 
 Because you are sufficiently master of yourself to 
 
 know how to obey without fussing or objecting 
 
 when it is not necessary. 
 Because you are careful of your clothes, books, and 
 
 other possessions. 
 When they see that you are thoughtful about not 
 
 slamming doors, tracking in mud, leaving your 
 
 room in disorder, or your belongings scattered all 
 
 through the house. 
 Because you are courteous and well mannered. 
 Because you treat them considerately and do nice 
 
 things for them; notice where you can help, etc. 
 Because you seem to like them. 
 
 The last reasons are far more influential than you think, 
 maybe, or ever have suspected, probably. Very likely 
 you have been so occupied with whether they are "nice" 
 to you that you have not thought that they might be 
 wondering about how you felt toward them. Yet older 
 people appreciate attention and kindness just as much as 
 you do what they give you. Older folks really take it as 
 a compliment when their opinions are asked, or when 
 their companionship is sought or wished. Very often they 
 are just as uncertain and timid about making advances 
 to you as you ever could feel toward them. They don't 
 know whether you will like or want them, though most 
 of them would be eager to be good friends with you if 
 they just knew how. 
 
 In this case, as in many others, a great deal depends 
 on understanding the other person and what is meant by 
 
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 what is said or done. One place where this brings about 
 a situation that would be funny if it were not so deadly 
 serious with the people in it, is with teachers at school 
 and sometimes with your parents at home. 
 
 Suppose, for example, something goes wrong — you 
 misbehave, or don't get your lessons. Then if the teacher 
 mentions it or shows any disapproval, you feel hurt or 
 disgraced or angry, and blame her for making you feel 
 that way. You really want her to like you, but when 
 these things happen you sort of decide that she doesn't 
 and that you don't like her either. And all the time she 
 is wanting to like you just ever so much; she is wanting 
 you to qualify for her liking you for some of the reasons 
 we've just listed. When you disappoint her by poor con- 
 duct, unlearned lessons, etc., you are disappointing her 
 ambition to see you become all that she knows and hopes 
 you can be. She wants you to succeed; and because she 
 cares she tells you where the trouble lies. She doesn't 
 want you to be disappointed in the results of your work, 
 she doesn't want to see you cheat yourself out of what 
 you may become, and she cares enough to try to help you 
 to see what is happening. She wants you to have the very 
 thing you are wanting — the right to her approval and 
 liking because of your proof of your worth and merit. So 
 when she's really caring you blame her for "having it in 
 for you" and not liking you. 
 
 The same ridiculous sort of thing often happens at 
 home, or when you get into difficulty with a neighbor or 
 some other grown person. You can think these things 
 out for yourself, now, remembering what you learned in 
 the lessons on school citizenship and what we have just 
 been thinking about. 
 
 As you think things over can you see that where the 
 trouble lies is that you have failed in your part of a com- 
 
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 munity relationship? You test other people by your 
 ''test needles" and they test you by theirs, and all the 
 time you forget about the "touchstone" that would bring 
 the tests out right every time instead of mixing them so. 
 What is the touchstone that will show you the inner 
 meanings of conmiunity. citizenship? Where will you find 
 your jasper to test for gold in conduct and prove the 
 worth of your citizenship as a member of the community? 
 It is in some Bible verses in Luke, just after the "Rule 
 that is Golden." 
 
 And if ye love them that love you, what thank have 
 ye? for even sinners love those that love them. And 
 if ye do good to them that do good to you, what thank 
 have ye? for even sinners do the same. ... Be ye 
 merciful, even as your Father is merciful. And judge 
 not, and ye shall not be judged; and condemn not, 
 and ye shall not be condemned: release, and ye 
 shall be released : give, and it shall be given unto you ; 
 good measure, pressed down, shaken together, run- 
 ning over, shall they give into your bosom. For with 
 what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you 
 again. 
 
 Love, you see, is the touchstone — love which is of God. 
 And this love will work out what seen! like miracles as 
 you test yourself for community citizenship and do unto 
 others as you would have them do to you. Let us see 
 how it may work out. 
 
 If you show a loving spirit even to somebody who does 
 not seem to be loving toward you, what will the result 
 be? Take up "test needles" from your different lists and 
 see. The other person will begin to be more loving to 
 you. 
 
 "Be merciful," even though the other person does not 
 seem merciful toward you. Find your test needles and 
 
64 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 see what will result in establishing the friendly attitude 
 which is a part of community citizenship. 
 
 "Judge not," that the other person is this or that dis- 
 agreeable thing. You may not understand that you are 
 really looking at love turned wrongside out so that the 
 seams show. Prove by your test needles that "ye shall 
 not be judged." 
 
 "Condemn not" — send out love instead of anger, 
 antagonism, and strife. Test and see what will come back 
 to you. 
 
 "Release" — let the other person be free. Do not bind 
 him by demands for what you want or by thinking ill of 
 him; and you shall be released yourself through love. 
 Try to discover the nice things in him, and by showing 
 your own nice qualities in loving ways the tests will prove 
 that your community citizenship is made of jasper and 
 gold. 
 
 "Give." Just look over the test-needle lists and see 
 how often giving occurs in some form. Then remember 
 "with what measure ye mete [measure out] it shall be 
 measured to you again." 
 
 A person who has been a teacher of Junior Citizens who 
 have now grown to be the prominent men of the com- 
 munity where they live sent a clipping when this book of 
 yours was being planned. The clipping was about a very 
 old book, and this is how it began: 
 
 THE GOOD LITTLE BOY*S BOOK 
 
 Such is the title of a little paper-covered book, dis- 
 colored by seventy-five years of usage and weather, that 
 has fallen into our hands. It was evidently a prize be- 
 stowed upon a deserving Sunday-school pupil. . . . The 
 Good Little Boy's Book begins its instructions thus: *T 
 do not know anything more pleasing than to see children 
 
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 conduct themselves properly on all occasions. There are 
 some boys who never seem to know how they ought to 
 behave. I know one who would tease people with ques- 
 tions when they were reading or writing, take one*s chair 
 if one happened to rise for a moment, leave the door wide 
 open on a cold day, and do a htmdred other rude things, 
 just because he did not take the trouble to think about 
 the matter/' 
 
 Since you know the touchstone tests, suppose you see 
 just what loving considerate things this seventy-five- 
 year-old book was trying to teach. Though it says "boy," 
 "girl" will do too. 
 
 Make as long a list as you can, of ways in which you 
 are going to prove the quality of your community life at 
 home, at school, in the neighborhood, etc. 
 
 Memorize the touchstone quotation, so that you will 
 have it as a help as long as you live. It will make a big 
 difference in your community citizenship if you will let 
 it. 
 
 Look up Matthew 5:43-48. From what Jesus said, 
 even to love one's enemies was to be a matter of course, 
 an everyday mark of a true citizen of God's kingdom. 
 Do you think he would have set such a standard if it 
 were too hard? If in God's love and life and power we 
 live and move and are, should we find it hard to live as 
 Jesus shows that a citizen should? 
 
 Where can you get what you need in order to live as a 
 citizen whose conduct meets the touchstone tests and 
 proves that it is fine gold? Will practice and habit help? 
 What will you do at times when your test would show no 
 gold at all in what you have done? Need you ever be 
 discouraged and think it is no use? 
 
 Does a community citizen of the finest sort ever excuse 
 himself by what somebody else has done? 
 
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 Special Tests 
 
 Has getting up pleasantly anything to do with jasper and 
 gold in your conduct? 
 
 What part of the time are you '*on your honor'' in school? 
 
 When you would rather read or play and there is some 
 errand or *'work" that you are needed for, what will 
 you do to prove the quality of your citizenship? 
 
 How about being tidy in clothes, person, and habits? 
 
 Will you adopt this as a daily test for your conduct as a 
 citizen of the community? — *T will do something with- 
 out fail to help at home." 
 
 LESSON 10 
 THE STREET OF THE GOLDEN MILE 
 
 You found some of the gold and jasper of community 
 citizenship in the lesson that we studied last time. And 
 you saw how the loving spirit of "As ye would that men 
 should do to you, do ye even so to them likewise" is the 
 shining rule by which to test your conduct. Now, in this 
 new lesson you can measure the street of living together 
 by the very same "Rule that is Golden." 
 
 Look in Matthew 5:41, where you will find another 
 way in which Jesus expressed the same idea when he gave 
 a special direction to citizens of his kingdom, the fellow- 
 ship of the good. "And whosoever shall compel thee to 
 go one mile, go with him two." Think this over and see 
 whether he meant, "Be twice as considerate, obliging, 
 and generous as you would be required or expected to be." 
 
 Now, suppose we start in to measure the Street of 
 Living Together, by this special meaning of our golden 
 reed, and see how we can discover there that we are 
 measuring off the Street of the Golden Mile. 
 
 Have you ever seen somebody going along the street 
 
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 reading a letter, who tore it into bits and scattered them? 
 or somebody who was eating peanuts and throwing the 
 shells around? or picnic folks who scattered food refuse, 
 and papers, leaving them to litter the place, without 
 considering what it would be like for the next people 
 who came? How would you feel if you had just cleaned 
 the sidewalk for mother when somebody came along and 
 littered it this way? Would you think it fair or con- 
 siderate? And if people came into your yard, even though 
 they had permission, and left papers and food behind 
 them, would you feel that they had shown even common 
 courtesy? Is there any difference between what is fair 
 and considerate in these cases and the others? Because 
 a place belongs to the whole community instead of to a 
 person, does that change what ought to be done? 'Twice 
 as considerate, obliging, and generous, as you would be 
 required or expected to be" is our rule of gold. Suppose 
 you measure here, and see what true, wide-awake re- 
 spectable community citizens would do. Let's measure 
 this way. If streets and parks and the woods and the 
 shore are ours to use and to enjoy, are they ours to keep 
 clean too? 
 
 Suppose you find them littered, what will you do in 
 order to belong on the Street of the Golden Mile? 
 
 How about whittling letters in trees or hacking 
 benches, fences, etc.? Or writing with pencil and chalk 
 on houses and walls or in public places? People who do 
 these things are forgetting their citizenship in thinking of 
 their own fun. What are the things that you think they 
 should realize and remember in order to measure their 
 conduct with the "reed" that tests for citizenship and a 
 place in the Street of the Golden Mile? How can a 
 Junior Citizen help such folks to learn how much nicer 
 •it is to live up to tJie finest citizenship? 
 
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 One of the places where some Junior Citizens are care- 
 less in such matters is in school. They mark up text- 
 books that are furnished them and are careless and waste- 
 ful with pencils and paper and other supplies. Once a 
 teacher asked some of these folks a few questions to help 
 them to think, and to understand what they were doing. 
 You may be interested in the questions yourself: 
 
 "Who owns the school buildings?" — Many of the pupils 
 did not know; some guessed "The school board," but 
 before long they all realized that it is the "people of the 
 town, because they pay the taxes to build and keep up 
 the schools." 
 
 "What diflference does it make to 'the people' if a wall 
 is defaced and has to be refinished?" — Soon the pupils 
 saw that such things mean more taxes, more money to 
 be paid by the fathers and mothers and the rest of the 
 people of the community. 
 
 "What difference would more taxes mean to the 
 pupils?" — Suppose the parents had to pay only ten cents 
 more tax; that would mean there would be a dime less, 
 with which one might buy an ice-cream cone, a soda, or 
 help to pay for a hair ribbon. 
 
 By thinking such questions through with their teacher 
 the boys and girls came to feel that they had a share in 
 the community ownership of public buildings, and that 
 they had a citizen's responsibility for a share in keeping 
 things nice everywhere, and avoiding all possible waste. 
 
 Since you have been thinking about taxes, suppose you 
 ask older people some questions in order to find out just 
 how much the citizens of your community paid in taxes 
 to build your school. See if you can discover how much 
 it costs each year for every boy and girl who attends. If 
 a boy or girl adds to the expense, is it fair? What are 
 the different kinds of things that boys and girls can do 
 
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 to prove to the community that they are good citizens, 
 appreciating what has been paid for by the community 
 for them? The people are willing to pay that much for 
 every child each year. Apply the rule that is golden and 
 list some things that the boys and girls may do in ex- 
 change. 
 
 Count up the amount that the community has spent 
 on you since you began to go to school. What have you 
 done to prove that you are worthy of this and that you 
 deserve the chance for other years? 
 
 Can you think of any "rule of gold" changes that you 
 and your schoolmates can make in your attitude toward 
 the principal, teachers, or the janitor? Maybe there are 
 in your school boys or girls who have not grown much 
 beyond the baby stage of wanting to do just as they 
 please, with no thought about community citizenship and 
 the living that goes with it. They do not understand that 
 the school is really wanting to help them to have and to 
 make use of all the opportunities that the community 
 has provided. Go back to your school citizenship lessons 
 and see if you can find ways in which school citizenship 
 becomes community citizenship. Then think again of 
 the boys and girls who want only the babyish good times 
 that mean laziness and amusing themselves in ways that 
 waste time or property. When they fight in spirit against 
 the teachers, principal, or janitor are they like soldiers 
 who fire in mistake at members of their own scouting 
 party? How can you help such boys and girls to under- 
 stand better? What can you do as a good citizen to pro- 
 tect community property and help the representatives 
 of the community that make up the faculty of your 
 school? 
 
 When school is out vacation comes. This often means 
 auto rides into the country, corn roasts, etc. Shall we see 
 
70 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 where these things affect community citizenship in ways 
 that may need changing? 
 
 Speaking of auto rides may perhaps make you think of 
 the kind of drivers that people call "road hogs/' What is 
 the matter with such people? Of whose pleasure are they 
 thinking? How far along are they in community citizen- 
 ship ? How do you act toward them? Do you show them 
 an ugly face? Does being disagreeable to them make 
 them want to be better citizens? Think of the two sides 
 of the road and the two ways of looking at the matter. 
 If they break their part of the Golden Rule, does it justify 
 your smashing it too? How can you make this experi- 
 ence of the trip a part of the "golden mile"? There's a 
 great deal to think of here. 
 
 Now, there is something else that may happen. There 
 used to be a delightful custom in the country districts. 
 The farmers had so much fruit that they did not mind at 
 all if people helped themselves when passing, to what lay 
 near the road or under the trees. But people have abused 
 this community courtesy. With the coming of thousands 
 of automobiles there came hundreds of people who were 
 sort of community babies. They would even take fruit 
 from the trees. Perhaps someone else had taken what lay 
 on the ground. They wanted some and so took a share 
 from the best on the trees, a little or a great deal, accord- 
 ing to how greedy and unprincipled they were. To them 
 it seemed a very little thing. The farmer had so much, 
 and what they took would not matter, they thought. It 
 made them angry if the farmer was cross and objected. 
 
 Maybe you have felt something like this about some 
 apples, pears, or peaches, or a bunch of grapes from a 
 vineyard. Maybe it was corn or melons, or "only flowers'' 
 that you took. Putting aside the fact of your taking 
 without permission what does not belong to you, and 
 
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 granting that you took only "a little/' suppose we count 
 up and try to see things from the farmer's side. 
 
 It has taken hard work for him to plant and cultivate 
 his crop. When it is harvested it will bring him in the 
 money to pay his bills. Suppose that in a day only five 
 out of the many passing autos stop for people to take 
 fruit or corn. How long will it be until a bushel has 
 walked away? Then in the course of a month, how much 
 less of a crop will he have to sell? Of how much money 
 wiU he be robbed by people who would be horrified at 
 the idea of stealing actual cash and who thought it all 
 right for them to take a "little''? 
 
 Who, then, is responsible for the fact that the farmer 
 who began as such a friendly citizen of the community, 
 now puts up high fences and "Keep Out" or "No Tres- 
 passing" signs? Does taking a "little" have nothing to 
 do with community citizenship? In how many ways can 
 you help to prevent it, and reestablish the "golden mile"? 
 
 Now, let us reckon the nuisance caused by careless 
 auto parties who have not made provision for drinking 
 water and for filling their radiators in advance. Suppose 
 you lived in a farmhouse at the foot of a long hill, where, 
 three or four times an hour all day long, day after day, 
 people stopped to ask for water. Would you feel that it 
 was fair or right? Could you get your work done? Would 
 you want to wash and sterilize all the glasses that so 
 many people would need? Why ask the farmer's wife to 
 do it? She has mountains of work to do in a day, yet 
 often she has this heavy burden from thoughtless com- 
 munity citizens who have made her pay for their careless- 
 ness and negligence. What can you, as a Junior Citizen, 
 do to prevent this tarnishing of her "golden mile"? 
 
 What is your idea of a "good time" on Halloween? If 
 you think that it is not the thing to indulge in mischievous 
 
72 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 pranks that destroy property and cause annoyance to 
 people, can you explain how such performances are viola- 
 tions of community living? See if citizenship can be golden 
 when measured by whether it contributes something to 
 the living that is shared by people of a community. How 
 would you suggest a way of turning mischievous pranks 
 inside out and making them into surprises and jokes that 
 would deh'ght and help? Which will bring you the greater 
 fun? Will you start this "wherever you live"? 
 
 So far we have been discussing mostly the kind of 
 community living that has to do with property and 
 possessions. Now suppose we think a little of ways that 
 concern "folks" themselves. What is the golden attitude 
 toward people who are "different" or "queer"? Usually 
 it is not easy for boys and girls to keep it. They are some- 
 what like the old Scotchman who said: "All the world is 
 queer but thee and me, Jean. And thee's a little queer." 
 
 People who seem queer to us make us feel as if they 
 were pushing us away from them, because they are not 
 like our ideas of what is admirable. Half the time we do 
 not understand nor see the many lovely things that such 
 people possess. We are too busy seeing what we think 
 are their defects. How would you like it if everybody 
 turned away from you? Why not adventure with your 
 golden reed and see what shining quality you can dis- 
 cover in those "queer" folks that will prove them likable 
 after all? You would be grateful if somebody gave you 
 a chance. Try it once or twice at least. After you have 
 gone with them for a while you may not find them queer 
 at all. 
 
 How about serving the neighborhood where you live 
 by doing kind turns for old people or those who are sick 
 or infirm? Can you help to welcome newcomers and give 
 them a chance? As you think of these things you can 
 
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 recall what Jesus said — "Inasmuch as ye did it unto one 
 of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it unto me" 
 (Matthew 25 : 40). Go from this to what he said in Mark 
 3: 35, "For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same 
 is my brother, and sister, and mother." Think of being 
 brethren of one who revealed God. As you reveal him in 
 golden conduct you will find in others some golden thing. 
 Then you can see that you live in the Street of the Golden 
 Mile. 
 
 Special Work 
 
 Notice where you can help by picking up banana peel or 
 other litter and trash. 
 
 Resolve: *'I will do something every day to make home 
 attractive — dust, clean up, plant something, mow the 
 lawn, make something such as a piece of furniture, a 
 bird house, a bird bath, a feeding station." 
 
 Memorize Mark 3 : 35 to help you as a community citizen. 
 
 Look up the answer that Jesus made when he was asked: 
 "Who is my neighbor?" You will find it in Luke 10: 
 30-37. Has this anything to do with the way you will 
 treat a person who is queer? 
 
 Make a record of your golden chances for a week and how 
 many you have been able to keep. 
 
GROUP VI 
 
 Lessons ii and 12 . 
 
 PATRIOTIC HORIZONS 
 
 Some time perhaps you may 
 have climbed away up inside of 
 the Statue of Liberty, which 
 stands in New York Harbor, to 
 where you could look out over 
 land and sea toward the horizon 
 line. Maybe you have been on 
 the top of a very high building in 
 the city, or have stood on the 
 prairie where you could see for 
 miles and miles in every direc- 
 tion, to where the sky and the 
 earth seemed to meet. Or per- 
 haps you have found a hilltop higher than any other point 
 near by and have looked from its summit in every 
 direction as you slowly turned around. Or you may some 
 time have been on a vessel at sea, or in some other place 
 where you could get a wide view of the immense circle 
 that marks the horizon. 
 
 If you had such an outlook, did it bring a wonderful 
 feeling; a joy in the freedom and vastness and greatness, 
 and did you feel a strange power back of it all? such as 
 we like to think of in connection with this great country 
 of ours? If you never have seen a horizon view, nor felt 
 these wonderful things it will be well worth while for you 
 to explore for an opportunity. 
 
 74 
 
 •BE AN AMERICAN" 
 
PATRIOTIC HORIZONS 75 
 
 Then, as you understand this freedom and power in the 
 wide-spreading view, it will seem very natural that 
 "Liberty'' should be holding up her torch to give light to 
 the world as it spreads out around her. And you will see 
 why a picture of the Statue of Liberty is just the thing 
 for the symbol of the lessons on your patriotic horizons, 
 "A Real American" and "Loving Your Country/' 
 
 Maybe you are wondering now what need you have for 
 lessons of this kind. You feel that you know about liberty 
 and freedom and all the things for which patriotism 
 stands. Wait and see. Watch your horizon line as you 
 study and see whether you can discover something that 
 you never noticed before. Most of us find that true 
 American citizenship has meanings so wide that to try to 
 reach their limits is like traveling to meet the horizon — 
 the farther you go the more it moves beyond you. 
 
 One of our patriotic hymns, "America," which you 
 probably know very well, fits in beautifully with our 
 thoughts about horizons. It gives word pictures of dif- 
 ferent scenes. Think of the second stanza and the first 
 two hues of the third. Aren't they ahnost like what you 
 might see if you were standing somewhere looking around 
 you toward a horizon? The first stanza, of course, brings 
 in our feeling about freedom and the Statue of Liberty, 
 while the last stanza is a citizen prayer. 
 
 You know the strange and awe-inspiring feeling of the 
 greatness of things that comes over you when you are 
 looking out across a wonderful expanse — something that 
 stirs you and makes you catch your breath because of 
 the bigness and the wonder of it. For ages of time people 
 who have felt these things have been stirred by some- 
 thing there that spoke to them in some unknown way of 
 God and of his wonderful power. As you think of this, 
 say over the citizen prayer that is the close of the hymn 
 
y(, CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 "America/' and see if you do not understand and love it 
 more than you ever did before. 
 
 **Our fathers* God, to thee, 
 Author of hberty, 
 
 To thee we sing; 
 Long may our land be bright 
 With freedom's holy light! 
 Protect us by thy might, 
 
 Great God, otu* king.*' 
 
 LESSON 11 
 A REAL AMERICAN 
 
 Are you sure whether you are a real American or not? 
 You probably think, "Why, of course I am; I was born 
 an American." Even so, but are you sure that makes you 
 a real one? 
 
 If you are a real American, it means more than just 
 being born as the child of parents who are American 
 citizens. To understand you must climb to the top of an 
 imaginary Statue of Liberty and gain views of patriotic 
 horizons. As you look toward the wide, sweeping circle 
 around you, you will see things that help you to under- 
 stand the spirit of America and the ideals that it stands 
 for. And then you will test your conduct to see whether 
 it is shaped by a fine loyalty to what our country means. 
 
 You can best begin with the real Liberty Statue. Do 
 you remember where it came from, and why? If not, 
 search in a history book or in an encyclopedia to see if 
 you can find out. Then look up the words "liberty" and 
 "freedom" and see if you discover anything that connects 
 them with what you studied in "Following the Star," in 
 Group II, when you were thinking about initiative 
 
PATRIOTIC HORIZONS 
 
 77 
 
 and self-reliance. Then think about America's patriotic 
 horizon of "liberty," ^'freedom/' and "justice for all." 
 
 Now, if you look back to the opening part of Group 
 II, you will notice one of the famous slogans men- 
 tioned there, "Make the world safe for democracy." The 
 words were caught from a sentence by President Wood- 
 row Wilson during the World War. This "democracy" 
 which was to be safeguarded for the world is an exten- 
 sion of the liberty and freedom and justice horizon. 
 
 Real Americans believe in "democracy," which we 
 might almost say means "everybody's opportunity." The 
 Old-World traditions and customs made artificial dis- 
 tinctions which gave most of the advantages to the "few" 
 and despised the "common people," whom Lincoln said 
 God must have liked since he made so many of them. 
 Americans have no kings, emperors, dukes, or barons: no 
 separations among the people because of "high" or "low" 
 birth, in this Old-World sense, but they often spoil their 
 democratic ideal by the way they regard people with 
 money. 
 
 Suppose you test yourself out as to this. Are you 
 "democratic," or are you something of a snob? If your 
 parents have only limited means, are you ashamed of 
 them and of your home? Do you hate to be known for 
 what you are? Do you seek attention from those who 
 have more money? Would you rather go with them than 
 with somebody like yourself or who has even less than 
 you? How do you choose your friends, for what they 
 ham or for what they are? If your parents have money, 
 do you stick to your own crowd exclusively or are you 
 good friends with whatever companions are worth while? 
 How do you treat those who have less advantages and 
 money than you have? 
 
 Whatever your financial standing, have you the 
 
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 gracious ways that come from a comradely heart? Be- 
 cause you are so friendly and sincere, do others find it 
 easier to be their genuine selves, their very best, rather 
 than to be hypocrites or shams? Are you a true American, 
 then, in this sort of "democracy" as you check your 
 conduct by this ideal? 
 
 You know that our country has treasured from its be- 
 ginnings the ideal of liberty and equality among its 
 citizens. How do your conduct and attitude toward 
 people of different race and national origin bear this out? 
 Do you look down on the ignorant "foreigners'^ and do 
 you despise the "colored people"? We, who are in this 
 country now — descendants of imn^grants from other lands 
 — have some big problems to solve in the way of fellow- 
 ship with those who come with customs and traditions 
 differing from ours. Are we willing to give them court- 
 eous recognition and an opportunity to grow and to share 
 with us the best that they have and the best that is ours? 
 
 Study this incident which really happened: 
 
 "My ancestors came over on the Mayflower," said the 
 lady from Boston, rather impressively. 
 
 "My ancestors," replied the clergyman to whom she 
 was speaking, "were members of the reception committee 
 which welcomed yours." 
 
 The clergyman was the Rev. Sherman Coolidge, a full- 
 blooded Arapahoe Indian on the staff of the Episcopal 
 Cathedral at Denver. Are you anything like the woman 
 who spoke to him? 
 
 In a volume of Indian poetry, there is some quaint 
 verse which tells about the attitude of those first Ameri- 
 cans who welcomed the white settlers. Here is part of 
 it to show you how some of them felt and what they did 
 when the news came of the white man's arrival. See if 
 they had the spirit of true democracy: 
 
PATRIOTIC HORIZONS 79 
 
 "Lone Dog Unto the Delawares 
 
 '^Brothers, Lennapi, 
 Hear ye, come ye, all ye — 
 By south-way, east-way, shoreland place 
 Men come. 
 Boats come, 
 Float fast. 
 Handsome. 
 
 Man-who-paints, much-talker, he much-walked 
 Easterly, south also. 
 All-time stalked — 
 Friends, they, he says, 
 Simrise men, sun-bom men, east-coming; 
 Great things have, wonderful, thundering — 
 Yea, great things, hear we, from clam-clam sea — 
 Hear ye — 
 
 White bird boat, great eagle, floats up streams, 
 Man-carrying, house-bearing, much fire gleams. 
 Friends they. 
 Say they. 
 Come ye, hear ye, all ye, 
 
 Let us running-friendly be. 
 
 Let us brother-hearted be, 
 
 Giver-brothers standing we. 
 
 Men with meat, men with hides, everyman, 
 
 Bring your gifts laying them 
 At Clam-clam sea." ^ 
 
 Because we have been so accustomed to think of the 
 explorers and discoverers as having the right to claim 
 this country when they found it, most of us never have 
 realized how shamefully the white men misused the 
 friendliness of the Indians. Those were days before 
 patriotic ho rizons had widened as they are doing now. In 
 
 * The Path on the Rainbow^ Boni & Liveright, publishers. 
 
8o CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 order to understand more clearly what actually occurred, 
 just suppose that by way of the sky crowds of unknown 
 beings began to descend on our land, and little by little 
 to drive us from our homes, to spoil our cities, and to 
 establish a new manner of living that we did not under- 
 stand. How would we feel? Yet this is what the white 
 people have done to the Indians. If you could talk with 
 Indians now Jiving you would find that they feel the 
 unfairness of being crowded out and despoiled in the 
 years gone by. They feel as wronged as you would feel 
 if forced to give up your home to strangers who had no 
 right to it. 
 
 It is not pleasant to have to face these facts and to see 
 how they break one of the treasured ideals that Americans 
 love — a square deal. We need to pray for forgiveness and 
 guidance, to "our fathers' God," the "Author of liberty." 
 Unless we can find right now ways to do the fair thing by 
 the Indians of to-day as well as by the newcomers to 
 our shores, unless we do our part in the "giver-brother" 
 spirit of sharing, what happened to the Indians may be 
 repeated with us. We and our ideals may be crowded out 
 by the newcomers whom we make to feel unwelcome and 
 unwanted because we do not understand their ways nor 
 help them to understand ours. 
 
 Some of them have wonder possessions for our country, 
 in music, painting, drama, handicrafts, industry, agri- 
 culture, etc. Some of them seem to have little beyond a 
 great need, need of all that we have and are that is good 
 and fine. Many of them have come here with high dreams 
 of a land of liberty, and have had them spoiled. Every 
 one of them needs an American brother-hearted friend 
 with whom to enjoy the true American fellowship of 
 ideals and liberty. This means that we need them to 
 share with us as much as they need what we have to give. 
 
PATRIOTIC HORIZONS 8i 
 
 To be a democracy we must have "everybody's oppor- 
 tunity.'' 
 
 In order to see how your conduct may seem to some of 
 these foreign-born or new Americans, suppose conditions 
 were reversed and you were in their place. Have you ever 
 been lonely? in a strange place? Suppose everybody 
 around you spoke in strange sounds that you could not 
 understand; that you heard nothing else wherever you 
 went — except at home and among a few friends. And 
 suppose, in addition, that the customs of the country 
 were strange to you and that people disliked and avoided 
 you when you went among them or that they took 
 mean advantage of your ignorance. How would you feel? 
 
 There are many problems to be solved — and they are 
 not easy — in this joining together of old-time Americans 
 and new. But the spirit of good will, of courtesy and 
 consideration and fair play, the "brother-hearted" spirit 
 of true citizens of the Kingdom of the Good — this will 
 work magic results. 
 
 Here is where your home citizenship, school citizen- 
 ship, and community citizenship all come together as 
 parts of your American citizenship. Among these new- 
 comers are boys and girls who are having difficult times. 
 It is hard for them to choose between the ways of the 
 Old World and of the New. Often, without your knowing 
 it, they are watching you and deciding because of what 
 they see you do. 
 
 You need not be surprised if they seem greedy and 
 grasping. That comes from the old-time bondage which 
 their people have suffered and the bHnd desire for free- 
 dom and achievement that urges them on now. They 
 may lie, and cheat, and steal. They may use talk that is 
 not nice. Much of this too comes from bad conditions in 
 the old country. Released from that, they want every- 
 
82 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 thing. Of course some of their choices are not right 
 according to citizen standards, but don't be too severe in 
 judging them. They have not had your chance. They 
 need friends to show them what true citizenship means. 
 
 You can be friendly with them without being intimate, 
 of course, if your parents object for any reason to your 
 associating with these boys and girls. Remember not to 
 be a snob. Don't patronize. There is nothing of golden 
 citizenship in such an attitude. 
 
 Here are some suggestions to help you apply your 
 "rule that is golden": 
 
 1. Smile at them in a friendly way when you meet 
 them. 
 
 2. Watch that they have a fair chance in games, etc. 
 
 3. Help them to learn English correctly by explaining 
 their mistakes, politely. They will appreciate this 
 brother-friendliness greatly if you offer your sug- 
 gestions considerately. 
 
 4. You may be an interpreter to them of true American 
 ideals. Your own conduct and example, of course, 
 count for an immense amount here. But you can 
 also make suggestions. *The best kind of Ameri- 
 cans do thus and so," or "This is the way we 
 should do." Explain that even if they have seen 
 some American doing or saying what they are 
 copying unwisely, it isn't the finest choice to 
 follow, and that you know they want to choose the 
 best. Praise when you can. 
 
 Thinking It Over 
 
 What proofs can you give that you are a real American? 
 
 Ask yourself carefully : 
 
 Am I fit to be copied by the newcomers? 
 
 Are they more polite and courteous than I am? 
 
PATRIOTIC HORIZONS 83 
 
 Can I learn from them nice ways of showing respect to 
 father and mother and other people? 
 
 Have I rude ways that will become their ideals and spoil 
 the beautiful thing that they might bring to American 
 citizenship? 
 What will you do about such manners and habits as you 
 have that you would not wish a new American to make 
 part of himself? 
 What is your citizenship responsibility here? 
 Which of the following ideals are being offered to foreign- 
 bom people by the attitude of Americans in your 
 community : 
 
 These or Those 
 
 To work with the hands Labor is honorable, 
 
 is inferior. 
 
 To "make money** is Money is of value as a 
 
 the main thing. servant. 
 
 You must be *4n style" Character first. 
 
 to be anybody. 
 
 **Do" others all you can. Fair play is the law. 
 
 Rudeness does not mat- Courtesy is blessed, 
 
 ter. 
 Write in your notebook something about any of these 
 
 ideals that appeal to you. 
 Look up James 2 : 1-9 and see if it belongs with what we 
 
 have decided about snobbishness. 
 Try to find the legend about St. Francis of Assisi and the 
 hated, despised, distrusted, wicked Wolf of Gubbio 
 about whom Josephine Preston Peabody wrote, 
 
 "The Little Poor Man touched my heart: 
 With love, with love, it broke. 
 And from my bonden death-in-life 
 I woke!" 1 
 
 If the Christ-love has touched your heart, you can do the 
 same for others, as a loyal American. 
 
 1 The Wolf of Gubbio, Houghton Mifiain Company, Publishers. 
 
84 ^ CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 Learn this citizen reminder: 
 
 For freedom did Christ set us free; stand fast 
 therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of 
 bondage. — Galatians 5:1. 
 
 LESSON 12 
 LOVING YOUR COUNTRY 
 
 The schools have taught you their flag exercises, and 
 you know how to take care of our national emblem and 
 honor it. But what does patriotism mean? Only this? 
 Is it only saluting the flag, being thrilled as it goes by, 
 and when we see soldiers marching? Is it just patriotic 
 speeches on holidays, cheering and salutes to Americans 
 of note? Have you learned "how to strive daily and 
 hourly to keep that flag unsullied' 7 Is patriotism only a 
 vague, general love of country, the sort of thing that 
 youVe heard long, tiresome speeches about? 
 
 When you care deeply for a friend your love means 
 more than just the feeling you have. It means sharing, 
 for one thing. It means looking out for your friend's 
 interests and defending them; it means helping and it 
 means being worthy of your friend's love, loyalty, and 
 confidence. 
 
 The same things are part of real love for your country. 
 True patriots love by what they "are" and "do" for their 
 country's sake. If you think over the life story of well- 
 known Americans, you will see how they prove this. 
 
 There are hosts of these true Americans out on the 
 horizons of history. Out of the great number we can 
 select half a dozen now. Look, first, back in Revolu- 
 tionary times to where John Hancock on the horizon is 
 willing to risk everything in order to make his country 
 free. He and all the rest of the signers of the Declaration 
 
PATRIOTIC HORIZONS 85 
 
 of Independence knew that many people at that time 
 believed that by putting their names to the document 
 they were practically signing their own death warrants. 
 They risked being taken as traitors and punished for dis- 
 loyalty to England. Yet look at John Hancock, signing 
 his name in large letters with the comment, "I write so 
 that George Third may read without his spectacles.'' His 
 courage and patriotism show larger, since by signing first 
 he declared his leadership in the movement and so risked 
 special punishment. You remember that he was Pres- 
 ident of the Continental Congress that drew up the 
 Declaration of Independence. Surely, he and the others 
 loved their country truly and well with their courage and 
 convictions. Have you the courage to let people know 
 where you stand in matters of right and wrong? Widen 
 out your horizon. 
 
 George Washington. Look back along the history line 
 to Valley Forge, where Washington showed himself as a 
 patriot who refused to give up when everything looked 
 as if it were about to fail in the Revolutionary cause. See 
 him as a patriot who prayed. It was winter; there was 
 no money to pay the soldiers; there was little to eat; the 
 men were suffering because their shoes had worn out and 
 their feet left bloody tracks in the snow. For these 
 patriots and the needs of his country Washington prayed 
 — and help came. 
 
 Do you think that he prayed less or had less faith 
 during the time after the war when the colonies seemed 
 about to separate and fight each other instead of con- 
 tinuing to unite as a nation? In such difficult times he 
 was chosen to be the first President of the country. Just 
 then he had a big choice to make. There was a group of 
 his friends who urged him to become "king'' of the 
 colonies. Many a man would have coveted the honor for 
 
86 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 himself and would have chosen the power that the king 
 would have. But Washington urged and chose what was 
 a new thing in the world — a new government by the 
 people themselves. Because of his choice the country be- 
 came "The United States of America/^ and the history 
 of the whole world has been changed from what it would 
 have been if he had chosen to be king. Washington 
 proved his patriotism by his persisting through diffi- 
 culties, by his prayers, and by his unselfish choosing 
 which still continue to bless the world. How about these 
 three things in your everyday love of your country? 
 
 Abraham Lincoln, whom the whole world recognizes 
 as one of its greatest men, is over there in another part of 
 the historical horizon of patriots. He endured and died — 
 because he had the courage to do hard things when he 
 believed they were right. He had to endure much criti- 
 cism from people who did not understand and who mis- 
 judged him. And what "made Lincoln great was what 
 made all who knew him love him ... to this day. He 
 had no hatred in his heart. He was the strongest man in 
 the country, strong in his patience, in his power of making 
 other people see as he saw, and do as he desired, but he 
 was strong in his love for mankind.'' Surely, he proved 
 his patriotism by what he was and what he did for his 
 country. How about you? Count up the ways in which 
 you can imitate him, from day to day. 
 
 Frances Willard, woman patriot, you will see as you 
 turn a little further around. She saw that drink was 
 keeping thousands from being good citizens and that 
 other citizens were profiting by the destruction of homes, 
 the suffering of women and children, and the weakness 
 and wreck of the people who drank. For years she was 
 the organizer and the person who made harmony among 
 the bands of women who sought to destroy "the drink 
 
PATRIOTIC HORIZONS 87 
 
 traffic." What heroism and devotion were required in 
 the face of prejudice, hatred, and misunderstanding peo- 
 ple who live nowadays can scarcely realize. Though 
 years of eflFort have fruited in the Eighteenth Prohibition 
 Amendment, which gives us prohibition, the fight against 
 drink is still unfinished. But citizens now have a better 
 chance to be free from drink slavery, and the government 
 of our country does not prrofit by the sale of licenses for 
 citizen-destroying liquors. So Frances Willard was a 
 patriot who did not live in vain. It is yours to carry on 
 her work and to encourage loyal obedience to the law 
 that has been made. 
 
 Susan B. Anthony is a patriot of whom you may never 
 have heard, though she was a wonderful champion of fair 
 play, a pioneer in the movement which gave women 
 many rights that had been denied them, including a full 
 share in citizenship and the right to vote. What she 
 withstood in ridicule and abuse would have discouraged 
 a less persistent citizen, but such things only made her 
 more determined. She died before suffrage for women 
 became a fact, but the amendment to the Constitution 
 finally passed by Congress was called by her name. 
 Women of this country and girls who are future citizens 
 in possession of full rights owe much to her courageous, 
 untiring patriotism. Without her work they would lack 
 many privileges that they now take as a matter of course. 
 It cost true patriotic endeavor to obtain them. Junior 
 Citizens can follow her by being undiscouraged in their 
 efforts for what is right, by keeping their eyes on the goal 
 that they have set, even though progress seems slow and 
 effort seems to bear little result. You can be as vaKant a 
 patriot as she. 
 
 On other parts of the horizon are countless patriots of 
 many kinds who have helped by their practical, self- 
 
88 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 sacrificing patriotism to make this country of ours what 
 it is to-day. They did their part, even though it was quiet 
 and unobtrusive, so that nobody else knew much about 
 it at the time. 
 
 Yet even now, petty, mean, self-seeking, self-centered 
 citizens are plentiful even among grown people. Such 
 persons have not understood all that citizenship and 
 patriotism mean. Nor did they have the preparation and 
 training such as you are getting. 
 
 Because a nation cannot be better than the individuals 
 that make it, what you are now counts big. You dare not 
 leave things until you grow up. Bigger problems and 
 great experiences are ahead for citizens of the future. 
 From among the Junior Citizens of to-day must come the 
 leaders and pioneers of to-morrow's advance. The world 
 will need for its new causes its Washingtons, Hancocks, 
 Lincolns, Willards, and Anthonys. Will you be ready 
 to be one? 
 
 Here are some things that will count toward the mak- 
 ing of superfine patriotic American citizens: 
 
 Conduct, now, at home, in school and community. You 
 know what this means. 
 
 Character — the kind that is built by choosing the best 
 and seeking the good of everybody. 
 
 Information about many things. You are by no means 
 too young to begin to understand the citizen meanings 
 and the lack of patriotism in graft, vote-selling, putting 
 local affairs beyond everything else, waste, child labor, 
 ^'bootlegging," etc. Ask older people about them and 
 test them by the citizenship laws and tests that you have 
 learned. Look these matters up by asking in the library 
 for information on the different subjects such as children 
 in industry, de-forest-ation (the middle of the word sug- 
 gests the meaning) and what is needed to prevent its 
 
PATRIOTIC HORIZONS 89 
 
 disastrous results. When you find out, for example, how 
 many children are picking cranberries, opening oysters, 
 etc., for hours every day with no chance to play and no 
 opportunity for school, then you can begin making what 
 somebody has called a "divine nuisance" of yourself by 
 incessantly talking and asking older people what can be 
 done. 
 
 Your country and the world need your finest patriotism 
 of every sort. Judas sold the world's best Citizen for 
 thirty pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold tried to betray 
 his country. Wrong choosing is a kind of treason. Every 
 day counts, and every minute of every day. The future 
 depends on you and your ideals. What will you do with 
 it? What are you doing now? 
 
 Other Work 
 
 Memorize "America'' if you have not already done so. 
 How many picture ideas, whether horizon views or not, 
 
 can you find in it? 
 Compare it with ''America, the Beautiful.'' Look for the 
 
 pictures there too. Which do you like better? 
 When you **salute the flag" and pledge allegiance, from 
 
 now on, what will you think of as real meanings for your 
 
 citizenship ? 
 What things are you going to pick out as your special 
 
 share now in trying to better your country — bad 
 
 housing conditions? playgrounds in crowded parts of 
 
 cities? or some of the other things mentioned in the 
 
 lesson? Can you think up or find out some needed 
 
 thing which has not been spoken of ? 
 Suppose every Junior Citizen all over the country were to 
 
 get to work in earnest, right away, would nothing 
 
 happen nowf 
 
GROUP VII 
 
 Lessons 13 and 14 
 
 AEROPLANE SERVICE 
 
 Have you ever been up in an 
 aeroplane? Do you know 
 whether things look the same 
 when seen from above? Surely, 
 you have seen movie films show- 
 ing how things appear to a per- 
 son in a flying machine. Because 
 it is so high above even the 
 tallest buildings the view is 
 wider and more far-reaching, 
 and because of the flight it is 
 constantly changing. Aeroplanes 
 too are for something besides 
 observation. They have a purpose; they carry passengers, 
 mail, etc.; they help to locate lost people and to keep 
 guard against forest fires. Such aeroplane views and 
 service are something like a true world citizen's way of 
 seeing and being. His world knowledge is wide and far- 
 reaching, and his helpful sharing in world living is greater 
 than it could be without such view and purpose. These 
 lessons will show you more plainly how this is so. 
 
 It is interesting, once you know how, to watch and see 
 the kind of citizenship to which people have grown. You 
 know it by the things they are interested in, and how they 
 think and understand what happens in the world. 
 
 Some folks seem to live in a cellar where they see almost 
 nothing. These are the people who have little chance 
 
 90 
 
 •YOUR WORLD" 
 
AEROPLANE SERVICE 91 
 
 because of their neglected education, or work that is too 
 heavy or too long. These are in the baby stage of "eat 
 and sleep just to live." 
 
 Other people seem to walk along a street but see little 
 or nothing except their own feet and the part of the pave- 
 ment just before them, or whatever is very close by. 
 These are folks who are like very small children, inter- 
 ested in only a very small circle of people. Just a very 
 few outside of the members of their families secure their 
 interest and affection. 
 
 Others are like children a little older who care for a 
 wider circle; their families, playmates, and some grown- 
 ups, such as the policemen and firemen perhaps, maybe 
 some teacher whom they love and admire, and others 
 whom they regard as unusual or heroic, or about whom 
 others are talking — "a human fly,'' movie people, base- 
 ball players, etc. The rest of the world is scarcely more 
 than a set of furniture and seems mostly in their way at 
 that! 
 
 Little by little citizen-thinking grows in some people. 
 From family and school and church, on into the com- 
 munity and nation the aeroplane of their interest travels. 
 Then many of them stop. They neither look nor see any 
 further. A few may perhaps go far enough to become 
 interested in some other nation that is friendly to their 
 own. But only the very few go into the aeroplane which 
 lets them travel all over the world in their interest and 
 thinking. All the other people are world citizens, for 
 everybody is one, but most do not realize it. The few 
 are the exceptions; they know. They see that whatever 
 concerns the interests and welfare of any part of the 
 world is of importance to them as well, and that they 
 have obligations and privileges that are as wide as the 
 world. 
 
92 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 Does it make you almost dizzy to try to fly so high and 
 so far as to think of being this kind of citizen? Never 
 mind, after you get used to it thinking this way will be- 
 come so natural that seeing far-off things will be as easy 
 as it now is to notice what happens along the street 
 where you live. 
 
 In I Corinthians 12: 12-26 you will find this spirit of 
 world citizenship expressed in another way, by different 
 parts of the body. See what the Bible verses say: 
 
 As the body is one, and hath many members, and 
 all the members of the body, being many, are one 
 body, so also is Christ. . . . And the eye cannot say 
 to lie hand, I have no need of thee; or again the 
 head to the feet, I have no need of you. . . . Now ye 
 are the body of Christ, and severally members there- 
 of. 
 
 The picture symbol for these lessons has two hemi- 
 spheres, and yet it represents one world. Think about this 
 and then read these words from Ephesians 2: 18: 
 
 For through him we both have our access in one 
 spirit unto the Father. So then ye are no more 
 strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow citizens 
 with the saints, and of the household of God. 
 
 Join this with the Corinthians verses and see if true 
 Christian citizenship is as wide as the world. 
 
 LESSON 13 
 
 BIRD'S-EYE VIEWS 
 
 Long before there were aviators to be spoken of as 
 bird-men, and before there were aeroplanes to see from, 
 people used the words *^bird's-eye view" to describe what 
 could be seen from a very high outlook. In your aero- 
 
AEROPLANE SERVICE 93 
 
 plane service, right now as a Junior Citizen, you will 
 want to make voyages in a good many directions to get 
 bird's-eye views of the world. 
 
 It would be a pity to wait until you are older before 
 getting big views of what the world is like. You would 
 miss so many good times and would have a lot of catching 
 up to do later on. The more you know about what the 
 world is like from your voyages now, the better you will 
 be able to "fly'' in your planes later on as you think 
 intelligently about world conditions and happenings in 
 other countries. Besides, unless you get used to thinking 
 in world views the longer you will have to put off your 
 aeroplane service to the world. 
 
 Although you could begin almost anywhere, suppose 
 you make a first-trial voyage to see what you can learn 
 about just common, everyday bread and how it is used 
 all over the world. Are there any different sorts used in 
 various countries? Are there places where bread as you 
 know it, is not used? What substitutes for bread are 
 found in different places? What was the bread described 
 in the Bible? What do you know about the modern 
 process of breadmaking in large bakeries? These are only 
 a few of the interesting things that you may observe on 
 this trip. 
 
 Houses next. Have you ever compared the different 
 shapes and kinds of houses that people live in, throughout 
 the world? Try to count up all the different varieties you 
 can. Notice the difference between Lapland and Eskimo 
 houses and those in Africa. How do they differ from 
 houses in Palestine? Is there any difference between the 
 appearance of houses in the northeastern part of the 
 United States and in the southwestern? Why? If you 
 were to alight away down in the Argentine or in Chile, 
 how would you know from the houses that you were not 
 
94 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 in England, Switzerland, or Russia? In what European 
 country might you think you were? Why? If you were 
 to fly around the world in the different temperature 
 zones, what would you discover about houses that are in 
 different countries and continents having the same lati- 
 tude north or south of the equator? 
 
 How about clothes? They will make an interesting 
 journey too. What do you know about differences there? 
 Could you tell a Hindu from a Korean? a Japanese from 
 a Chinese? would you recognize a Norwegian, an Italian 
 peasant, and a Bedouin? Do you find any places where 
 differences in clothing show different religious faiths? 
 
 Shoes, although a part of clothes, might give you an 
 interesting trip. After you have seen as many kinds as 
 possible you might compare them with the ones used in 
 Bible times. Where is it customary to remove shoes now, 
 as Moses was told to do when he saw the burning bush 
 where the angel of God's presence talked with him in the 
 desert? You will find that story in Exodus 3: 2-5. 
 
 Another interesting trip would be a tour of inspection 
 to compare methods and means of travel and transporta- 
 tion in all parts of the world. You will be interested in 
 both animals and vehicles, and may learn something 
 about roads and the time required to journey by land 
 and by water. How about travel and vehicles in Bible 
 times? Where are similar customs still in use? 
 
 Trees and fruits can give you a most entertaining trip, 
 especially if you let it include wood and fruits, going 
 back to the places from which they come to your home. 
 You might compare the trees of the East and the West 
 of this continent, the North and the South, and then see 
 whether corresponding locations in Europe and Asia have 
 the same kinds. Why not fly from arctic to antarctic 
 circles, to get views of the range in varieties of trees 
 
AEROPLANE SERVICE 95 
 
 in that direction and how the two hemispheres 
 compare? 
 
 Other fascinating journeys would be those in which you 
 observe family life — the place of the father and of the 
 mother and that of the children; what the children play 
 and what kind of schools they have. 
 
 Different religions and governments will give you trips 
 of travel too. You will want to compare others with your 
 own, and know what the conditions are outside of this 
 country of ours. 
 
 If there are other things you think of that specially 
 interest you, by all means take those trips. The more 
 you know about this world of ours, the better you will be 
 ready to understand what you see and hear and read, 
 both now and later on when you have immense oppor- 
 tunities of world citizenship for which you are preparing. 
 
 As for flying machines to take you on all these many 
 journeys, there are several kinds at your service, espe- 
 cially books, magazines, and talks with people from other 
 countries. Even pubUcations that are more especially for 
 older people you will find helpful with their interesting 
 pictures and photographs that give the needed world 
 knowledge. The National Geographic Magazine, Asia, 
 and the different missionary magazines all will help. 
 Geographies, encyclopedias, and Bible dictionaries are 
 other "planes" that you can use. For trips of a different 
 kind you will need such magazines as Science and Inven- 
 tion, or The Literary Digest, or Popular Science Monthly 
 — to discover new things of many kinds that are going 
 on in the world. 
 
 You can ask questions of older people and get them to 
 help you. They may be very much behind the times 
 themselves, and will enjoy taking the trip with you if 
 you do not make them uncomfortable by trying to prove 
 
96 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 how much or how little they know. They may have for- 
 gotten a great deal that they knew once and need only 
 a little brushing up to be able to remember. 
 
 Exercises 
 
 Since this lesson is to help you in gaining world knowledge 
 you can report on your work by degrees and get credit 
 both now and later on. If you have had a special trip 
 assigned to you, report on it in class during this period. 
 
 Look at the front page of the newspapers for a week and 
 find how many parts of the world are mentioned. This 
 will vary, for world conditions may bring up few places 
 one week and many places another. 
 
 If you hear a place mentioned when grown people are 
 talking, remember it and find out where it is. Ask why 
 it is interesting. Get older folks interested in world- 
 citizenship thinking such as you are learning. They may 
 never have thought about it. 
 
 Listen to older folks talking and weigh their citizen atti- 
 tudes in the scales provided by the Bible verses for this 
 lesson group. 
 
 Our own country has such a wide range of territory and 
 conditions that it will repay a flying visit. Look up the 
 far-scattered places of interest in the main part of the 
 United States, between the Atlantic and the Pacific. 
 Then find out what you can about the other regions. 
 Porto Rico — what is it like? What help have we been 
 there? Alaska — see if you can find books telling about 
 products and climate there, the midnight sun, and the 
 industries and animals and transportation. Then a long 
 flight to the middle of the Pacific, to the Hawaiian 
 Islands. What do you know of them? How did they 
 come to be a part of the United States? Is there a 
 famous volcano there? Find out about those other 
 islands nearer Asia, the Philippines. Have we helped 
 any there? Then fly to the Isthmus of Panama to the 
 
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 Canal Zone. Have we done a bit of world service there ? 
 In how many ways? 
 What have been the results of the World War to the chil- 
 dren of the world? What are your advantages over 
 children in most countries ? Then what is the measure of 
 your responsibility and privilege as a world citizen? 
 Remember, "Freely ye have received, freely give," and 
 "with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to 
 you again.'* 
 
 LESSON 14 
 INTO ALL THE WORLD 
 
 Here is a Bible verse that will add to our meanings 
 for world citizenship. It is what Jesus said to his disciples 
 before he left them. "Go ye into all the world and preach 
 the gospel to the whole creation'' (Mark 16: 15). You 
 can see in it a direction that concerns all lands and all 
 peoples — that the whole world may come to share in the 
 full citizenship of God's kingdom. Because of this do you 
 think that as a Junior Citizen your preparation for world 
 citizenship would be half complete without a knowledge 
 of religions and missions in many lands and among many 
 peoples? Surely not. So those are the next trips that 
 your aeroplane service will prepare for. 
 
 Do you know the difference between the religious be- 
 liefs of the people of Japan and those of India? the 
 Chinese and the Mexicans? the people of Central Africa 
 and those of South America? the Alaskan Indians and 
 the Philippines? Those are real good, exciting trips to 
 take, especially if you are on the lookout to see what fine 
 things you can discover in the faiths of these different 
 peoples, and just how you think they most need help in 
 order to understand citizenship in God's kingdom. 
 
 Here are other trips. The early Christians were some- 
 
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 times persecuted and even put to death, as you probably 
 know, under the authority of the Roman emperors. In 
 order to be sure that you realize just where those rulers 
 had their capital, look up the location of the city of Rome 
 in modern Italy. Point it out on your world map. Per- 
 haps, too, you can find pictures of the Coliseum, the 
 building where so many Christians met death rather than 
 give up or deny their faith. 
 
 In this land of ours you do not know anything of such 
 severe tests of faith and loyalty, but there are countries 
 in this modern world where people have been both per- 
 secuted and slaughtered because they were Christians. 
 Those people are the Armenians and the Koreans. Look 
 up their countries and then look at your little world maps 
 and see exactly where these people have lived. 
 
 Because the Armenians live in the part of the world 
 where the Bible lands were, you may want to make some 
 careful trips to those regions in order to find out more 
 about customs there, both past and present. There were 
 several Bible lands. You know which way to go and 
 where to find Syria, Armenia, Turkey, Egypt, Greece, 
 and Rom^e, so here are some questions to test your world 
 knowledge and initiative. What is the condition of the 
 people, especially the children there, in the ^^Near East" 
 since the World War? Try to discover whether faulty 
 world citizenship on the part of other countries is partly 
 responsible for this state of things. For example, what 
 was wrong with the world citizenship of Turkey? Did 
 religion have anything to do with its action? What did 
 Great Britain do that allowed the Turks a chance to 
 continue to murder the Armenians wholesale? What 
 share had Germany in the affair? Did the United States 
 have a chance to help after the World War? What was 
 its answer? 
 
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 You might also find about the Jews and their return to 
 Palestine and what American Jews think about this 
 Zionist movement, as it is called. 
 
 See what missions and missionaries you can find out 
 about that are at work in Bible lands. You may discover 
 something about Robert College where so many Ameri- 
 can college students have gone to serve for a period of 
 years just after finishing their own college work. 
 
 If you were talking with a Syrian or a Turk, in regard 
 to religion, what would you expect him to believe? How 
 would his ideas dififer from yours? 
 
 You might also make trips to find out about famous 
 people who have lived there. You may perhaps have 
 realized that Jesus and John and Peter and Paul were all 
 Jews who actually lived in this part of the world that you 
 are reviewing now. How long ago was it that they lived 
 there? 
 
 Now, as to some later people. Can you find out what 
 ruler was called "The Sick Man of Europe"? The River 
 Nile was explored to its source in the heart of Africa by 
 a man who first went there to find out what had become 
 of a pioneer missionary who had gone into the interior 
 and had not been heard from for a long time. Who was 
 the missionary? Who was the explorer who went out to 
 find him? Are you glad that it was an American news- 
 paper, the New York Herald, that sent him out? Who 
 was the British general who conquered Palestine in the 
 World War and rode in triumph into Jerusalem? See if 
 you can find out about the railroad that he built across 
 the desert from Egypt to Palestine. 
 
 These things will none of them be hard to dis- 
 cover if you try just a little, and, besides, by asking 
 other people questions, you know, perhaps you can get 
 them to take some aeroplane trips with you for world- 
 
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 citizenship information. And that will be a bit of 
 world service. 
 
 Are you game for some more things to hunt up, this 
 time about missions? You know you can report on them 
 either now or later. 
 
 First, here is a paragraph from a magazine called 
 "Missions," that may interest you, especially if you have 
 been contributing money for missionary enterprises. 
 
 DO YOU WEAR A CHURCH? 
 
 A missionary at home on furlough was invited to din- 
 ner at a great summer resort, where he saw and met 
 many people of prominence. After dinner he went to 
 his room and wrote a letter to his wife. **Dear Wife: 
 
 I've had dinner at the great Hotel . The company 
 
 was wonderful. I saw strange things. Many women 
 were present. There were some who wore to my certain 
 knowledge one church, forty cottage organs, and twenty 
 libraries." 
 
 Churches and cottage organs and libraries are not the 
 only kinds of invisible ornaments that a world citizen 
 may wear. Think of the different sorts of missionary 
 activities there are. 
 
 Medical missions. This means hospitals, doctors, 
 nurses, and all kinds of equipment for which money is 
 needed and given. This sentence from a book for older 
 people will give you an idea of the world- citizenship value 
 of these things. "As we face the tasks of strengthening 
 the sense of brotherhood between great continents it is 
 evident that the medical missionary will continue to be 
 one of the most helpful and influential forces." This is 
 meant in still another sense from the world interest 
 brought about by the explorer who went to find a medical 
 missionary in Africa. 
 
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 Schools and colleges. Day schools with Christian 
 teachers and Christian ideals — do you think these are a 
 help toward an understanding and realization of world 
 brotherhood and kingdom citizenship? How about the 
 influence that will result in homes from which the pupils 
 come? Normal schools. Think about these schools for 
 native teachers. Who understands native children better, 
 a native or a foreigner? Then if five foreign teachers can 
 train from twenty to fifty native teachers in a few years' 
 time, and each native teacher can train fifty boys and 
 girls that a foreign teacher would not reach, how much 
 will the gain be? Do you think the figures should be 
 larger, for a lifetime of work? Is this a quality of world- 
 citizenship planning that will produce results faster than 
 if all foreign teachers had to be sent out, then to learn the 
 language and begin to understand the people and become 
 acquainted with the customs and thinking of the country? 
 Or suppose native teachers had to be sent over here to 
 be trained — all of them. What would make their progress 
 slow and delay the work of teaching the children? 
 Colleges. How many reasons can you think of why Chris- 
 tian colleges are needed and are of value? Why not let 
 the Christian students go to non-Christian universities 
 or come to this country instead? Agricultural schools. In 
 India there have been devastating famines for centuries. 
 Millions have suffered and died for lack of food. Immense 
 sums have been collected in Christian countries to pay for 
 food to keep the people alive. The old methods of farm- 
 ing were such that famines could not be avoided, but 
 there is a Christian agricultural school which has been 
 proving that, by introducing modern farm machinery and 
 methods, crops can be raised in ways to avoid famine. 
 In how many ways does this help world citizenship? In 
 other countries, China, for instance, different fruits such 
 
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 as apples have been introduced by missionaries and have 
 become a source of profit to the regions where they are 
 grown. If forest trees could be set out on a large scale, 
 through the influence of agricultural schools, the rainfall 
 in China could be greatly controlled, the scientists say, 
 and this would help to prevent both floods and famines. 
 What do you think of the need of this kind of world 
 helpfulness from mission schools? 
 
 Closing 
 
 There have been times through the centuries when 
 people of Christian nations tried to conquer other nations 
 and compel them to accept Christianity. * 'Crusades" of 
 warriors, and even of children, started from Europe to 
 conquer the Holy Land from the infidels, as they called 
 the Turks. Contrast these mistaken attempts with the 
 loving spirit of ministers and teachers and other Chris- 
 tian workers who now give themselves to help and instruct 
 and heal the nations of the world. As you think of these 
 things you may like to memorize two stanzas from one 
 of Longfellow*s poems. The word "corselet" that he uses 
 is the name of part of the armor worn by the crusaders. 
 
 "Cross against corselet, 
 Love against hatred, 
 Peace cry for war cry, 
 Patience is powerful. 
 He that o'ercometh 
 Hath power o'er the nations. 
 
 "Stronger than steel 
 Is the sword of the Spirit. 
 Swifter than arrows 
 The Light of the truth is. 
 Greater than Anger 
 Is Love and subdueth." 
 
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 Perhaps your class can prepare and give a missionary 
 play to interest people and to earn money to give for 
 missions. 
 
 Perhaps by the end of the citizenship course of lessons 
 you can have arranged a missionary exhibit that will 
 interest not only your class and its friends but the school 
 and church and community as well. 
 
 You may like to write a short biography of some famous 
 missionary like John G. Paton, who transformed the can- 
 nibals of the New Hebrides Islands. Any missionary 
 biography that you report in class or that you write up in 
 your notebook creditably should entitle you to a symbol 
 picture. 
 
 So, too, will a good report of any missionary trip on 
 your world-service aeroplane. 
 
 How many ways now, can you obey the directions that 
 Jesus gave to his disciples — '*Go ye into all the world"? 
 
SUNLIGHT LIVING' 
 
 GROUP VIII 
 
 Lessons 15 and 16 
 
 SUNLIGHT LIVING 
 
 In this group of lessons, 
 ^'Old FaithfuF' and "The Com- 
 ing of the Sun," we are going to 
 look for two ways to help. 
 After you have finished the 
 lessons you will understand why 
 the symbol is a rising sun. You 
 can watch as you go along to 
 see why the symbol is a good 
 one for the work you do in prac- 
 ticing the lessons. Since we are 
 at work learning about helping, 
 we take as our watchword for 
 
 this group, **Count on Me." 
 
 LESSON 15 
 "OLD FAITHFUL" 
 
 Do you remember about the geyser in Yellowstone 
 National Park, that is called Old Faithful, and do you 
 recall the reason for its name? People for years and years 
 have been visiting it because it is so regular in the time 
 of its appearing. If you do not know about it, you will 
 enjoy looking it up and finding a picture of the geyser in 
 action, for it looks like an immense, beautiful fountain. 
 If you find it, you might bring it to class, if you can. 
 
 The reason for its name may help you to guess what we 
 
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SUNLIGHT LIVING 105 
 
 are going to study about in this lesson. Do you see why 
 the action of this geyser can remind you of a citizen who 
 can be counted on? Here is a big word — ''dependability" 
 — that older people use to express the idea. Suppose you 
 cut the word in two, this way, ''depend" and "ability," 
 to see if you can guess at its meaning. You may find 
 something interesting too if you will consult one of the 
 big dictionaries that have several volumes, and see what 
 "depend" meant in the language from which we borrowed 
 it. Or you might ask somebody who has been studying 
 Latin. Such a person should be able to tell you in a 
 minute. 
 
 The second part that we cut from the big word gives 
 away its meaning, of course, because it is so much like 
 the httle everyday word "able." So if we fit the two ideas 
 together, we find that they give us the picture of hanging 
 securely from something — like a swing tied to the limb 
 of a tree, or a painter's platform hung by hooks and ropes 
 from a roof, or like a monkey hanging by his tail. In each 
 case there is security as long as the support holds. If it 
 breaks, there may be disaster. Now, dependable persons 
 are the sort upon whom things may be hung with security. 
 They will not let us down with a bump. We can be sure 
 of them; can count on them. 
 
 Talking of monkeys and of dependability in people 
 suggests a story which shows in monkey parable what 
 people are like who are not dependable. Do you remem- 
 ber the Bandar-Log, or Monkey People in Kipling's 
 Jungle Book? Look up the descriptions of them in the 
 story of "Kaa's Hunting," where it tells how they begin 
 a thing and drop it and how they are always going to do 
 something big but never doing it. You will find it funny 
 to see how much like some folks they are. After you have 
 read about them you might make a list of the ways in 
 
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 which they showed their lack of dependability as people 
 do. 
 
 How about you? Are you ever a Bandar-Log? When 
 you begin a job can you be depended on to finish it 
 thoroughly? Or do you drop it like a half-grown apple 
 that falls from a tree? If you promise to do a thing, can 
 people depend on your work or do you let them down 
 with a jolt, as if they were in a swing hung from a rotten 
 branch? If you are told to do something, do you pretend 
 to obey, as the unreliable son did in the parable that we 
 studied, or can folks rely on your word? If you are sent 
 to the store to buy something and find that it costs ten 
 cents less than you expected, do you keep the change or 
 do you return it to the person who sent you? Can people 
 count on you to be strictly honest, as honest with their 
 money as you would want them to be with yours? 
 
 If a boy or girl does the Bandar-Log thing, is it ^^baby" 
 living or the true citizen kind? Look over the list you 
 made and the questions you have just been answering, 
 and see what you think it is. 
 
 Next take the telescope of your imagination and see 
 the Bandar-Log boys and girls as grown-up citizens. If 
 they keep up the same kind of habits, what sort of citizens 
 will they be? Would you want to have to trust things 
 with them? Do you think it is worth the effort of training 
 in habits of dependable living, to avoid your becoming 
 low-grade citizens such as these? 
 
 There are many ways in which a citizen can train for 
 dependability. Here are a few suggestions about some of 
 them. 
 
 Remembering: 
 
 If somebody gives you a message to deliver, can you 
 repeat it accurately? How many times do you need to 
 have it told to you before you can remember it perfectly? 
 
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 When you have learned your lessons do you remember 
 them well because you have thought them out, or do you 
 forget quickly what you have studied? 
 
 Do you see why "cramming" is unwise and injurious 
 to you? 
 
 Observing: 
 
 When something interesting has happened can you tell 
 afterward exactly what you saw? Are you so accurate in 
 noticing details that people can refer to you if they are 
 uncertain about them, and be sure of a correct answer 
 from you? 
 
 Along the way to school, or when you are walking 
 along a street do you notice interesting things or do you 
 drift along dreaming about something? 
 
 Quality Work: 
 
 Do you work so well that people feel sure that if you 
 are given something to do it will be done excellently? 
 Are you building a fine reputation for the quality of your 
 work at home and in school? 
 
 Trustworthiness: 
 
 When your teacher is called out of the classroom, do 
 you and the others behave as nicely as when she is there? 
 Can you be depended on to manage yourselves? 
 
 Loyalty: 
 
 Do your friends feel that they can depend on you or 
 do they have to reckon with moods and fickleness? Do 
 you champion the best in them? 
 
 Character Decisions: 
 
 Can people say of you that they can rely always on 
 your doing the thing that you know is right? 
 
 Questions 
 How do child experiences make a difference in the senior 
 citizenship of dependable folks? 
 
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 Do you see any connection between dependability and 
 playing fair? If so, what is it? 
 
 After you have practiced in your everyday decisions for 
 a week count up and see how many times you have been 
 like Old Faithful and how many times a Bandar-Log. 
 Which brought the more satisfying results? 
 
 How many ways can you think of in which Junior 
 Citizens could train for dependability? Make a list. 
 
 Do you think it is rather hard to keep **choosing" as you 
 know that your citizenship requires? You will find it 
 easier, the longer you practice, especially if you keep 
 wanting the thing that is **best.*' Here are some verses 
 that you can memorize. If you study them carefully 
 and think about what they say you will find a hidden 
 meaning there that will help you to put the glow of 
 sunlight into what has seemed so hard. Here is a hint 
 to help you fimd this second meaning: — ^What does the 
 Sun represent for you? 
 
 The verses were written by Sidney Lanier, one of our 
 American poets, who faced hard things bravely: 
 
 "Old Want is awake and agog, every wrinkle a-frown; 
 The Worker must pass to his work in the terrible town; 
 But I fear not, nay, and I fear not the thing to be done; 
 
 I am strong with the strength of my lord the Sun; 
 How dark, how dark soever the race that must needs 
 be run, 
 
 I am lit with the Sun." ^ 
 
 LESSON 16 
 THE COMING OF THE SUN 
 
 The poet who faced his day "lit with the Sun" wrote 
 this description of a person who belongs with these lessons 
 of ours about '^Sunlight Living." 
 
 1 "From "Sunrise." Used by permission of Charles Scribner's Sons. 
 
SUNLIGHT LIVING 109 
 
 "... walking midway of the street, 
 As she had just stepped forth from out the gate 
 Of the very, very heaven where God is, 
 Still glittering with the God-shine on her.** ^ 
 
 Imagine what a wonderful thing it would be to have 
 such a God-shine about us that people walking along the 
 street would feel as if we had just been with God himself. 
 Yet as you think of things you have already studied, is 
 this anything more than a true citizen may hope to do? 
 The lesson that begins now is to help you to find ways of 
 becoming this kind of citizen. 
 
 The first part of the lesson will be about the every- 
 morning coming of the sun, and the second about the 
 shining that comes when the sun breaks through the 
 clouds after a time of unpleasant weather. 
 
 What the everyday presence of the sun means to us 
 is like the effect of a happy, good-natured, "sunshiny," 
 smiling citizen of course. And the sunlight coming after 
 gray clouds or storm, corresponds to what happens when 
 we find fun for ourselves or for other people no matter 
 how hard or disagreeable things may seem to be. After 
 we think a while about all of this we shall be able to see 
 very plainly some ways in which citizens can help. 
 
 The sun is one of the dependable things that we know 
 about best. Day after day it gives us its light after the 
 hours of darkness. And, besides, even the light of the 
 moon is a reflection of sunlight, you know. Even on the 
 days when we cannot see the sun because of clouds or rain 
 or snow we know that it is there by the presence of the 
 daylight. When the day is clear and the sky is blue 
 everybody is happy because of the sunshine. 
 
 Of course you know what a sunny citizen is — the 
 
 1 "The Jacquerie," by Sidney Lanier. Used by permission of Charles Scrib- 
 ner'sSons. 
 
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 happy, good-natured kind that everybody is so glad to 
 have around, the sort that always makes you feel better 
 and makes you want to smile and have a good time. If 
 you are not sure why we call such people "sunny," watch 
 a smile as it comes and see if it isn^t like sunshine. 
 
 Now, let us think about smiles awhile. Did you know 
 that there are other kinds than the ones on the face? We 
 can talk about at least three others. Then perhaps you 
 can think of more. 
 
 Maybe you know about the little signs that a big city 
 telephone company sent out for its patrons to tack up 
 where they would be seen. The little cards read, "The 
 voice with the smile wins." So you see, thousands of 
 people began to know that there is a smile in a pleasant 
 voice. Do you? How does it work out? And why does 
 such a voice win? Do you think that a citizen can learn 
 to use such a smiling voice? Does yours smile? What 
 difference do you think it would make if your voice never 
 had any unpleasant, disagreeable sound because you 
 never had anything but a shine inside? How many people 
 do you think of who would have had a sunshiny feeling 
 instead of an unpleasant one if your voice had smiled all 
 through yesterday and to-day? Count up. 
 
 Do you know that words can smile? It depends on how 
 you put them together, whether they do or not. You can 
 say a thing in a rough way, "I want some," or in a pleas- 
 ing, gracious way, "Please give me some." Practice a bit 
 for the sunny way, the smile that brings another smile. 
 You can have lots of fun with it, for you can help un- 
 comfortable people and even transform disagreeable ones 
 when you find out how to use the words with a smile in 
 them. If a book agent came to the door, how would you 
 say in a way that would be friendly but final, that your 
 mother does not want a book? 
 
SUNLIGHT LIVING iii 
 
 And how about the smile of pleasant manners? Do you 
 think it is really worth anything? Of course not the kind 
 that say all over that they are a counterfeit, but the real, 
 genuine, pleasant way of living graciously with people 
 because of the kindly shining that we have within our- 
 selves and feel toward them. Not "being nice just to be 
 nice, but because we are nice/' 
 
 Now we are ready to think about the citizenship that 
 is like the sun when it comes out from behind the clouds. 
 Everybody feels happy when stormy, gloomy weather is 
 past. We are happy because of the beauty and joy that 
 the sunshine brings. Sometimes we find bits of shining 
 in unexpected places. One Junior discovered it in the 
 mud-puddles along the way to school. Have you ever 
 happened to see how they shine when the light on them 
 is just right? They have a glory that is a surprise. It 
 made the Junior think of i Corinthians 15:49. Look it 
 up and you will see. Muddy water, like the earthy; 
 shining beauty, like the heaven world. 
 
 Does this remind you at all of something that happened 
 once when Jesus was praying? See Luke 9: 28-32. As 
 you think of it you may like to know about something 
 written about Jesus by a woman who makes some of our 
 finest poetry. Her name is Sara Teasdale. She was 
 writing in prose, this time, in a magazine for grown peo- 
 ple, telling about "The Carpenter's Son." In it she put 
 this unusual sentence, which is more wonderful the longer 
 you think of it: "Here was a man, incandescent with the 
 Spirit of God as no man ever had been before.'' Think 
 about it carefully: "incandescent" — like the shining of 
 the fiber in the gas mantles, or of the filmy wires in 
 electric-light bulbs; both dull things that are made to 
 glow and shine like sunlight. A body that shone with the 
 glory of God! 
 
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 This glory was especially plain at the time about which 
 you were reading, when Jesus was "transfigured" in the 
 presence of Peter and James and John. Perhaps you are 
 wondering what all this has to do with Junior Citizens. 
 Maybe you think that it was just something that hap- 
 pened to Jesus then and that nobody else can share it. 
 But think back to Lesson 2, where we found that every 
 one of us lives with a life that comes from God. Think of 
 the mud-puddles showing a glory like the heaven world 
 above them; and then think of the most glorious smile 
 that you ever saw. Wasn't it truly a bit of the glory of 
 God? Wasn't that person's face iUumined like the incan- 
 descent fibers of the lights? Then is there any reason 
 why your face should not shine, as well? 
 
 Now, what about a citizen who keeps cheery and good- 
 natured and smiling even though things are disagreeable 
 and hard. Perhaps you are wondering how you can be 
 good natured and sunny when things are hard and you 
 are cross and cranky inside. Those are the practice times 
 when we have to look carefully and "choose" whether we 
 really want more to be cross or to live out the glory of 
 God. It is really an "adventure" to do it; to choose to 
 be like the sun because you really want more than any- 
 thing else to be like God. You may not always succeed at 
 first in looking squarely at your decision; but it is a habit 
 that can grow and be perfected. 
 
 Just as an illustration of how it can be done let us 
 suppose that you want to find some inside sunlight on a 
 rainy day. Well, you can see the splashes of the rain, and 
 listen to its singing. You can sing a tune to yourself as 
 you march along the pavement to school, and your feet 
 will keep time pleasantly. You can watch the water 
 running along the gutters, and imagine that it is a river 
 and that the pieces of waste and chips are boats carrying 
 
SUNLIGHT LIVING 
 
 113 
 
 goods to a faraway place. You know all about that of 
 course. But perhaps you never have noticed the me- 
 nagerie town in the wet pavements when the buildings 
 show upside down and people are stretched out until they 
 look like camels and giraffes. Sometimes the pavement 
 becomes a flower garden as you see the reflection of little 
 children's pink or blue or red coats, or their yellow 
 sweaters. And then there is the lovely shining of the 
 water to watch for on the pavements, till you see the dull 
 sidewalk transfigured before you. 
 
 As you go along full of happy thoughts like these may- 
 be you'll meet a grouchy person; somebody that you 
 know. Then you can have a heap of fun watching how 
 the sun will come out in him if you give a cheery saluta- 
 tion or show him some of your fun or even just smile at 
 him. If you have never laughed your way through a rainy 
 day, you don't know how much fun you have missed in 
 seeing the sun come out from behind the clouds on peo- 
 ple's faces. But you have to laugh from inside you — not 
 just to make them laugh — if you want the sun to come 
 out really. 
 
 There are lots of other places where laughing helps. 
 Watch some time and see when people are crowding to get 
 on a street car or to reach a bargain counter, or when 
 something else makes them jam together and push. 
 Perhaps some folks get "mad" and others, scared. Then 
 maybe somebody takes it aU as a joke and laughs. The 
 rest begin to look around, and pretty soon more smile 
 until what seemed so ugly disappears. Or, perhaps it 
 may be when folks are coming home from a picnic and 
 are feeling cross and tired. If somebody comes up, smiling 
 and good-natured, and tells a funny story, everybody 
 gets to laughing, and pretty soon they aU feel better. You 
 see how well such a person is doing "sunlight living." 
 
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 Special Work 
 
 See if you can find an account of President Lincoln and 
 
 his funny stories that he used to make things easier for 
 
 himself and for other people when they all had so much 
 
 to endure. 
 Make a personal * Veather report" for a week and see how 
 
 many times you can put down stmshine living of one 
 
 kind or another. 
 Here is a bit of verse by our poet Longfellow. Perhaps if 
 
 you memorize it, it will help you to remember what you 
 
 are learning in these lessons. 
 
 **And that smile, like sunshine dart 
 Into many a sunless heart, 
 For a smile of God thou art.*' 
 
GROUP IX 
 
 'WHITE SHINING" 
 
 Lessons 17 and 18 
 
 THE PATH OF WHITE SHINING 
 
 If you have ever seen the re- 
 flection of the moonlight on the 
 water you will very quickly 
 understand why the Indians 
 have called it "The Path of 
 White Shining.'' If you never 
 have seen it, nor the shining of 
 the sun on the sea or the lake, 
 you have seen pictures of it 
 surely. And you may have 
 noticed the reflections of lights 
 on the water in the river, and 
 the gold and silver glimmer of 
 lights reflected in wet pavements on rainy nights. You 
 always find it when you are looking toward a light, 
 whether it is sun or moon or star or city light. 
 
 Some years ago a person who was watching the moon- 
 light on the ocean thought that this path of white shining 
 seemed to show that all water remembers the time when 
 Jesus walked upon the Sea of Galilee, and that whenever 
 a light shines upon water, anywhere, the bright pathway 
 of his steps is revealed for men to see. 
 
 This shining pathway is straight and clear. Unlike the 
 paths in the woods and the fields it does not wind and 
 wander. Because of this and because of its beauty, and 
 because of its poetic reminder of the glory of Jesus' life, 
 we are going to take the Indian "Path of White Shining" 
 
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 for our symbol during these two lessons. It will represent 
 the use of words that leaves a beautiful record in ourselves 
 and in other people. 
 
 Some folks have vagabond tongues, wandering away 
 from speech that is well chosen. They say things and use 
 words that belong to a go-as-you-please living that is like 
 the wandering woodland paths. 
 
 Perhaps you never thought that choosing has anything 
 special to do with the way that you talk, and with what 
 other people say, yet it is true. So, for these lessons, 
 maybe you will like to have as your everyday slogan 
 something about your speech. 'Watch Your Words." 
 
 LESSON 17 
 DUNCE-CAP TALK 
 
 One of the ways in which the tongues of boys and girls 
 act like vagabonds is in the use of talk that is cheap. This 
 means the teUing of nasty stories, swearing, unkind re- 
 marks and the different kinds of lies. A lot of wanderings! 
 Of course you know that such things are not right, and 
 you know the citizenship rules, "Blessed are the pure in 
 heart," and "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord 
 thy God in vain," but perhaps we can discover some new 
 meanings in them as we study. 
 
 The next time you hear somebody telling a story or 
 saying something that is not nice, suppose you stop and 
 see why. Although some people may seem to have 
 minds that have been poisoned, see if it isn't usually just 
 a cheap way of attracting attention to themselves that 
 makes them do it. They think it is smart, or very 
 "knowing" perhaps, and they want to seem unusual — 
 just a little different from other folks. Or they may be 
 trying to "shock" the people who hear them; they want 
 
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 to make a sensation. They expect that folks will be 
 horrified and say how bad they are, and so, pay a lot 
 more attention to them. They get attention all right, 
 but do not realize that it is the sort they would receive 
 if they dumped the garbage can on the front steps when 
 they had invited people to a party and saw them 
 coming. 
 
 Sometimes they are trying to make a laugh. They 
 want to attract attention by being what they think is 
 funny, not realizing how pitifully cheap their kind of 
 fun is. They would not think of going to a party with- 
 out a necktie, with shoes unlaced and trousers torn, nor 
 with their hair in curlers, nor wearing dirty working 
 clothes. These things would shame them by the kind 
 of "attention" they would attract. Yet these same poor 
 citizens do not see that their smutty talk is just adver- 
 tising them as cheap and silly and of very poor taste, 
 the kind that they will some day be ashamed to own 
 as theirs. They do not realize that it is a pretty poor 
 sort of attention too that they receive by showing that 
 their minds enjoy playing with dirt. 
 
 Those who use this cheap speech really do not mean to 
 be as bad as they sound. If you could get them to answer 
 truly, they would say that, of course, they would rather 
 be good than bad, but they'd rather be smart, or funny, 
 or something else that will make people think they are 
 different, and so pay attention to them. Do you see how 
 they wander in their choosing, and want two things at 
 once? And which sort of citizenship are they fooling 
 themselves into? 
 
 Now that you think of it, aren't these much the same 
 reasons that people have for swearing? Perhaps they 
 have heard some mistaken grown person say these words, 
 just as sometimes they have heard older people use nasty 
 
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 talk and tell shady stories. The Juniors want to appear 
 and to feel "grown up''; they want to show that they are 
 not afraid to dare to do these things that people know are 
 wrong. Sometimes they think it is being smart, and they 
 want to "show off." Or perhaps they are very angry and 
 want to express all the poison of the hatred they feel. 
 They do not dare to strike nor to kill the person against 
 whom they rage, so they take this way of doing it in 
 words. They want pirate living instead of policing them- 
 selves. You know in what class of citizens they belong. 
 They have themselves sorted out wrong. 
 
 Unkind talk too is usually to make a sensation or be- 
 cause someone is angry or resentful or jealous. The 
 reason for it is a selfish one. Think this over and see if it 
 doesn't prove true. 
 
 All these folks — those with impure tongues, those with 
 profane angry ones, and those with unkind ones — are 
 really to be pitied in a way. Savages do many things that 
 civihzed people are above doing, yet these people with 
 unfit speech are going back as far as they dare and are 
 living on a savage level instead of catching up with the 
 rest or tiuly going ahead of them and showing something 
 finer than has yet been lived. This savagery and their 
 wanting so much to attract attention from other people 
 is what marks their living as so cheap and inferior. People 
 who are very busy, just being and doing their best, are 
 not thinking about whether other folks are paying atten- 
 tion to them or not. They are too busy with worthwhile 
 things. 
 
 Now, let us go back to the citizenship rules. "Blessed 
 are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." The pure- 
 hearted have one chief desire — to live the best, to be as 
 clean and clear as crystal glass so that God's life may not 
 be tarnished as it shows through them. They would 
 
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 as soon think of rubbing a handful of soot over a new white 
 suit and their faces and hair as to use or hear nasty words. 
 And not being interested in such things, they do not look 
 for them in others. People feel somehow that they are 
 the sort before whom such speech should not be used. 
 And so it is the better side, the more godlike part of other 
 people that they call out just by being themselves, by 
 being pure in their own hearts. 
 
 What do you think such persons would do or say if 
 someone used impure talk in their presence? See if you 
 can find a story about what General Grant said to a man 
 who was going to tell a nasty story. What can a Junior 
 Citizen do when others in a crowd are using filthy talk 
 or saying something that is only a little shady? 
 
 If we really love the Lord our God with all our heart 
 and with all our strength and with all our mind, do you 
 think we will want to hear his name used lightly and care- 
 lessly or in angry curses? When we have something 
 precious we do not want it carelessly handled. As we 
 watch the beautiful path of light on the water on moonlit 
 nights we are disappointed when a big cloud comes up and 
 blots out the radiance. 
 
 What can we do that will really help if someone does 
 these unworthy things in our presence? And if the 
 temptation should come, because of frequently hearing 
 profane or ugly talk, to use it thoughtlessly ourselves, 
 what can we do to prevent it? How can we be sure of 
 quality citizenship in this that shall be as lovely as the 
 shining pathway on the water? 
 
 Special Work 
 
 Read James 3:26 and discuss it in class. 
 Is it clever to tell nasty stories? Why? 
 Is it manly or smart to swear? Why? 
 
I20 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 Do you understand anything of what the old Jewish say- 
 ing means that you find in Proverbs 21: 24: 
 
 Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue 
 Keepeth his soul from troubles? 
 
 Keep careful watch over your speech during the next week 
 to make sure that your words are all kind; that they 
 are clean ; that none of your talk is *' cheap,** The slogan 
 will help, "Watch Your Words!" 
 
 LESSON 18 
 MASKS 
 
 Perhaps you like to dress up on Halloween and wear 
 a mask so that people will not know who you are. Maybe 
 you have been at a masquerade and had a lot of fun 
 trying to guess who your friends were. But with you on 
 Halloween and with your friends at the party the mask 
 wasn't the real person; it was only a sham, a, false face. 
 
 Look up about masks in the encyclopedia and see if 
 you can find some pictures of the sort of masks that the 
 actors used to wear in the old Greek theaters, hundreds 
 of years ago. There were ones for each different kind of 
 part, the comic and the serious. Wearing these as false 
 faces, the actors were supposed to be other persons than 
 themselves. 
 
 Have you ever thought how lies are the false faces that 
 people sometimes put on when they wish to seem some- 
 thing which they are not? Although their real selves are 
 God's, they are foolish enough to want to hide behind 
 these masks for some reason or other. They haven't 
 realized how silly it is to try to deceive people, nor that 
 they will be sure to be found out. 
 
 These lying masks are of different sorts and degrees of 
 meanness and of desire to deceive. Here is a list of dif- 
 
THE PATH OF WHITE SHINING 121 
 
 ferent kinds made by some citizens who are still growing 
 up. Do you wear any of them? 
 
 1. Boys and girls lie, sometimes, just to entertain 
 themselves or the crowd by a big story that will be 
 exciting. They twist the facts of what has happened so 
 as to make them give a different meaning or seem bigger 
 and more thrilling. How long will it be before the crowd 
 will learn to measure their trick and see through it? 
 People like accurate facts and trustworthiness. 
 
 2. Lies are told because people want to appear bigger 
 and more important than they are. They want to seem 
 richer, to own more and to be able to do more than they 
 really are. Do you think that they will fool folks very 
 long? Why not be truthful? 
 
 3. People lie sometimes because they want to tell a 
 bigger story than somebody else has just told. They are 
 not willing to let anybody else have first place, or be 
 ahead of them. Have you ever watched such persons 
 and noticed how a flushed face and uneasy manner betray 
 their lying and why they are doing it? Wouldn't truth 
 and modesty be better than such a picture as they make? 
 
 4. They lie to excuse themselves, sometimes, when they 
 have been caught in the wrong, or when they are afraid 
 of being caught. This usually makes things worse than 
 ever, and they tell more lies to try to cover up the ones 
 they've already told. And in the end and when all is 
 uncovered their shame is worse than at first. The truth 
 would have paid, besides being "right." 
 
 5. They he at times, because they are angry with some- 
 one and they think they can "get even" by telling some- 
 thing mean about them. This kind of a lie acts like an 
 AustraUan "boomerang." It brings trouble back to them. 
 God's law of love would have protected them if they had 
 protected others instead of lying about them. 
 
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 6. They sometimes lie just because they enjoy spread- 
 ing an evil report about somebody. Though often the 
 other person is innocent, the one who is lying feels jealous 
 because the other is given credit or position or advantages 
 that the lying ones covet. Even aside from the wrong of 
 this, which is great enough, is the injury that they do to 
 themselves. Wouldn't saying something kind have 
 helped in every way? 
 
 7. They lie sometimes to flatter people, to "work" 
 them and so gain some favor or something they want. 
 When folks find them out, as they surely do in time, their 
 careful planning meets disaster and they lose their 
 "standing'' with people. Honesty is best. 
 
 8. They lie for the sake of trying to be pleasant and to 
 make folks like them. This goes all the way from a false 
 but well-meant politeness, to being a thorough hypocrite. 
 When such lying is continued even the tones of people's 
 voices become insincere and betray them in spite of them- 
 selves. People Uke a friend to be genuine and sincere. 
 
 9. Folks lie because they haven't courage enough to 
 tell the truth and face other people's opinions. Lying 
 doesn't save them, though, for people usually know, and 
 despise them as cowards. In the end if they told the 
 truth, folks would at least respect them for it. 
 
 10. People lie in order to try to get out of a difficulty 
 or scrape that they have been in. If they realized what 
 they were doing to themselves, they would shun the lies 
 and be courageously truthful. 
 
 Such a list as that is all black clouds and no white 
 shining. Suppose you look back over it and see where the 
 lack of true citizenship comes in, and where the poor 
 citizenship affects other people. Then as you think things 
 over, point out what would make a path of white shining, 
 instead, 
 
THE PATH OF WHITE SHINING 123 
 
 Some of these lies are the kinds that people use only 
 once in a while. The mask of deceit is pulled over their 
 customary honest faces because of some special thing. 
 But now and then there are boys and girls and men and 
 women, too, who wear deceitful masks so much of the 
 time that people come to distrust them absolutely no 
 matter what they say. So strong has the habit of lying 
 proved to be in them that people think of them as fakes 
 and shams. Suppose that you were carried ahead twenty- 
 five years and set down where you could see the Juniors 
 when they were grown up. Think out ways in which 
 their lying will hinder their fullest citizenship. Will it 
 pay, in the end? 
 
 Perhaps you yourself are tempted to lie for one reason 
 or another. What can you do to stop it? Do you remem- 
 ber the slogan for this group of lessons? Here is a prayer 
 that you can use as well. You will find it in Psalm 141 : 3. 
 "Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth. Keep the 
 door of my lips." Memorize it thoroughly so that you 
 will have it when you need it. Here is another verse that 
 you will like and that should be a help: Psalm 34:5. 
 "They looked unto him and were radiant; and their 
 faces shall never be confounded." Put it alongside of the 
 citizen rule about lying: "Thou shalt not bear false wit- 
 ness against thy neighbor." Does the word "radiant" 
 seem like a sort of promise of the shining truth that God 
 will give you if you ask his help to use the citizen rule? 
 Every time that you are tempted to lie, ask yourself 
 which you really want, the mask of deceit, or the truth 
 and honesty that shows a shining pathway. 
 
 Work These Out 
 
 For how many lessons of this group can you use the prayer 
 that is in Psalm 51 : 10: 
 
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 Create in me a clean heart, O God; 
 And renew a right spirit within me? 
 
 How do lies injtire good citizenship? 
 As you memorize these lines from Scott, decide just how 
 they apply to these lessons. 
 
 *'0! many a shaft, at random sent. 
 Finds mark the archer little meant! 
 And many a word at random spoken. 
 May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!" 
 
 How many times have you seen a path of white shining 
 in some one's speech or conduct recently? 
 
 How about yoin- own ? Have you gained any points lately ? 
 
 How well have you established the habit to "Watch Your 
 Words"? 
 
GROUP X 
 
 Lessons 19 and 20 
 
 BLUEBIRDS FOR HAPPINESS 
 
 The bluebird has become a 
 symbol of happiness. Its color 
 and song are lovely, but it is 
 since people have read the play 
 called "The Bluebird" that it 
 has come to represent happiness 
 to them. You may have read 
 the play or seen it either on the 
 stage or in the movies. In that 
 story two children went in search 
 of a bluebird which was to bring 
 new life and happiness to a little 
 neighbor girl who was sick. A 
 fairy gave the little boy a hat with a diamond in it. When 
 the diamond was turned the souls of the everyday things 
 —the walls of the house, light, water, and fire, bread and 
 sugar, and the cat and the dog — could be seen and 
 understood. 
 
 In our next lessons we shall go in search of happiness to 
 transform the ugly moods that often come to citizens. 
 Each of you will have a hat with a diamond in it — your 
 desire to be a good citizen. 
 Now it is time to 
 
 "Turn Your Diamond." 
 
 •BLUEBIRDS FOR 
 HAPPINESS" 
 
 125 
 
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 LESSON 19 
 DOWN IN THE MOUTH 
 
 A DISCOURAGED Citizen's face isn't on straight. It is all 
 pulled out of shape. The eyes are dull and look as if the 
 tears would come at any minute. And the mouth instead 
 of curving happily is all pulled down at the corners. It is 
 so sad and good-for-nothing and discouraged that people 
 do not like to see it around. And the person is the picture 
 of one who hasn't a friend in the world and who would 
 like to "crawl into a hole and die," as people often say. 
 What is the matter? 
 
 Perhaps he hasn't played fair with his body. Maybe 
 he was greedy and over ate. Maybe he hasn't kept 
 cleaned up inside. Maybe he hasn't slept as much as is 
 best; or some other thing that makes him all worn out 
 and tired instead of full of "pep." If you do not see what 
 this has to do with it, never mind. Just turn to what 
 Paul says in i Corinthians 3: i6. 
 
 Kjiow ye not that ye are a temple of God, and 
 that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 
 
 In the margin you will j&nd that "temple" means 
 "sanctuary," which is another way of saying "holy 
 place." So you see that the discouraged citizen has been 
 desecrating one of God's holy places by mistreating his 
 body. Of course he has not realized what he was doing. 
 He just did what he felt like doing. In order to make 
 this all still plainer, turn back to the Old Testament and 
 read about the Temple at Jerusalem and some things that 
 happened to it. You will find the places in 2 Chronicles 
 5:13 and 14; 2 Chronicles 29:15-19; 2 Kings 21:47, 
 and 2 Chronicles 33:45-47. You might also look up 
 Daniel 5 : 2-5, where Nebuchadnezzar and his court drank 
 
BLUEBIRDS FOR HAPPINESS 127 
 
 wine and praised their idols in the golden vessels taken 
 from the Temple of God in Jerusalem. This was just be- 
 fore the handwriting appeared on the wall of the king's 
 palace foretelling Nebuchadnezzar's downfall. 
 
 When you were the discouraged citizen whose body had 
 been mistreated because of over eating we might say that 
 you set up an idol in the temple. When you were careless 
 about cleaning up inside you let trash and disorder 
 accumulate there instead of doing as King Hezekiah did. 
 And when you did not rest enough you let some other 
 desire carry off some of the sacred equipment of your 
 temple. So how could the glory of God be revealed there? 
 
 But bodily conditions may not be the reason for the 
 discouragements that you have felt. The trouble may be 
 in your mind, and in your feelings — the "Holy of holies" 
 of your personal temple. Here are some causes of that 
 kind which several growing citizens have thought of as 
 they talked about this lesson for our book. 
 
 Maybe the teacher may have scolded at you too much. 
 
 Your parents seem to nag at you. 
 
 Your feelings may have been hurt. 
 
 You have lost a game or somebody has been mean to 
 you. 
 
 Perhaps you can add to the list. Do so if you can, in 
 order to have it ready to talk over in class. Try to find 
 out whether anything was wrong with your citizenship 
 when the teacher "called you down/' or your parents 
 "nagged/' or when you sat up after you were tired and 
 should have gone to bed. Were you "playing fair" and 
 were you doing Senior-Citizen choosing? It isn't spe- 
 cially pleasant to look one's faults in the face, but how 
 are we going to see ourselves as we seem to others unless 
 we are willing to look? And how are we going to find out 
 how to change if we stick our heads into the sand as the 
 
128 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 ostriches are said to do, because we don't want to look 
 and to see? 
 
 In this connection you will probably like to reread part 
 of the story of Elijah. You will find it in i Kings lo: 
 4~i8. Elijah was discouraged because he thought being 
 good was "such a lonesome job.'' He thought that he had 
 been a wonderful example of a good citizen, and that 
 everybody else was at fault. He was tired of trying and 
 "wanted to die.'' 
 
 Look and see what happened to help him. He first had 
 to tell the cause of his discouragement and find out that 
 it was all a mistake. Then as he communed with God he 
 received strength from him. These things are the remedy 
 for all discouraged citizens. 
 
 When you get discouraged it really means that you are 
 wanting to get back to the baby stage of living. You 
 want people to pay you attention and comfort you or do 
 things for you or be sorry for you, etc. You want to stop 
 trying and not exert yourself any more than you did when 
 you were a baby. You pity yourself as Elijah did. But 
 most of the time you do not realize that this is what it 
 means. 
 
 Can you think out how this pitying of yourself is really 
 a sort of mental "consumption" wasting away your 
 strength? Would it do to call it a kind of "cannibal" 
 living, since you eat up yourself and you eat up the 
 strength and patience and time and spirit of other people? 
 Another way to describe it would be "pussy-cat" living 
 since you want to be stroked and made comfortable! 
 
 Now that you realize these things of course you do not 
 for a minute want to keep them up. One big help toward 
 a change will be to look at things squarely. Perhaps you 
 will need to ask yourself whether you really get a sort of 
 pleasure from sagging and discouragement. Do you really 
 
BLUEBIRDS FOR HAPPINESS 129 
 
 want the happiness of the bluebird, or this other false kind 
 of sensation — the one that makes you the center of 
 things? Find out whether you bring the trouble upon 
 yourseK by not being fair at home or at school, or with 
 somebody you know. If so, you will want to get to work 
 and fix things up. Remember, too, where you get your 
 power to live. With all of God's wonderful supply to 
 draw from is there any reason why you should not come 
 to live superbly and to overcome whatever trouble there 
 may be in you or in other people? Like Elijah, when you 
 speak with God, you can be strong again. 
 
 Now go over your "discouraged" list again and see how 
 such living spoils your good citizenship and how it inter- 
 feres with other people. What sort of future citizen will 
 result if you keep on? What is to be done to avoid this? 
 Let us review what we have studied: Remove the cause 
 by studying the facts, make the better choice, and shine 
 with God in overcoming. Then you will have turned 
 your diamond and will see a very different-looking 
 world. 
 
 Finding Bluebirds 
 
 Somebody once made a sulky little girl laugh, and helped 
 her to choose better by saying to her with a nice tone 
 and a pleasant smile, **0h, Mary, please put your face on 
 straight !" Do you know how to put yours on that way ? 
 
 Think back to the lessons on * 'Sunlight Living" and see 
 how many bluebird ways of bringing happiness you can 
 find to help discouraged people. Pick out and make a 
 list of the ones that appeal to you most and that you 
 will try both with other people and with yourself. 
 
 What is the greatest secret of happiness-living for a dis- 
 couraged person to learn? Look carefully at the last 
 part of the lesson that you have just been studying and 
 see if you can find this very special bluebird for happi- 
 ness. 
 
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 Here are verses from Longfellow for you to memorize. 
 As you do so, you will find it interesting to picture in 
 your mind what is said. You can see the **torrents** 
 half dried up, and later full to overflowing. Perhaps you 
 may have seen a stream do this. Next look for the 
 cause and compare it with the cause spoken of in the 
 last two lines, to see how these verses express the citizen 
 secret of happiness. 
 
 **As torrents in summer, 
 Half dried in their channels, 
 Suddenly rise, though the 
 Sky is still cloudless, 
 For rain has been falling 
 Far off at their fountains, 
 
 **So hearts that are fainting 
 Grow full to overflowing. 
 And they that behold it 
 Marvel and know not 
 That God at their fountains 
 Far off has been raining." 
 
 LESSON 20 
 
 GRIT GOING TO WASTE 
 
 A Junior Citizen who always had been troubled by a 
 very difficult temper had been nagged about it, and 
 scolded for it, and made to feel like a heathen because of 
 it until she was bitterly discouraged and, like Elijah, she 
 wanted to die. She would repent and pray and try to be 
 good, but it didn't seem to help very much. One day as 
 she was talking to her pastor he asked how she was getting 
 along. So she told him how she felt about her "terrible 
 temper." With the kindest sort of smile he looked at her 
 and said, ''Don't you know that temper is only grit going 
 to waste?" 
 
BLUEBIRDS FOR HAPPINESS 131 
 
 Instantly that turned the diamond for her. It took 
 away the old hopeless feeling forever. She saw that in- 
 stead of being something altogether bad, temper means 
 power going to waste, power that may be used in splendid, 
 courageous living. She did not know, as you do, that 
 this tremendous life energy is a holy thing, and for a long 
 time she did not learn to use it rightly, but she did see 
 that to lose one's temper means an immense waste of 
 good material. 
 
 Now let us look at some Bible verses — Proverbs 16:32: 
 
 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; 
 And he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh 
 a city. 
 
 As you think this over imagine that you see the persons 
 who are compared. On one side is somebody who is not 
 easily made angry. On the other side is a ^'mighty" one, 
 an emperor or a wealthy person who cares only for him- 
 self; whoever you choose. Then another contrast. A man 
 who is able to be quiet and poised under provocation, 
 while opposite to him is a conqueror of a walled and 
 fortified city, perhaps. As you picture such contrasts 
 work out why one is "better" than the other. 
 
 Next suppose we list everything that is like losing one's 
 temper, so as to learn as much as we can. There are fret- 
 ful, snarling, surly, irritable, sulky times as well as blazing 
 angry ones. All of them belong together, like a family. 
 Think awhile and see to what they would grow when they 
 ripened. And refer to what Jesus says in Matthew 5: 22. 
 Such moods mean that you are being pulled back toward 
 a savage way of living that would end in your doing what 
 would injure or kill. That sounds pretty terrible, for, of 
 course, you hadn't realized it was like that. Now that 
 you see it so plainly as it is when it gets ripe, it will be 
 
132 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 easier not to choose that sort of living. Besides, suppose 
 the habit grows stronger until it controls you. You know 
 the sort of citizens who do that kind of thing when they 
 are grown and who have to be put in prison. Do you 
 suppose that if they had learned how to govern them- 
 selves when they were Juniors, they would have landed 
 there? 
 
 All of the trouble about temper needn't be as bad as it 
 seems. It just means that you have to run yourself as if 
 you were an automobile. Instead of letting it turn just 
 any way, or allowing somebody else to interfere when you 
 are driving, you must guide the wheel yourself. The 
 power within you is so strong that it can go with a whiz, 
 but you must guide it. When you are ugly because you 
 do not like something that somebody has done to you, 
 and when you "just hate" somebody who is good, or who 
 has succeeded where you have failed, and when you get 
 angry, the old furious, savage way of living is trying to 
 swing the wheel out of your hands, and a smash-up is 
 likely to happen. You know how it is. 
 
 Lots of times, it may be that you have trouble with 
 your temper because you are afraid that somebody is 
 going to boss you or to try to make you do something that 
 you do not want to do; just as if the other person grabbed 
 the steering wheel away from you. You'll have to admit 
 that sometimes you do need help, but right here is where 
 you have a great chance for citizenship training. Just 
 because other people love you and want to help, because 
 they are so eager for you to do exactly what is right, and 
 because they feel that they are responsible for you they 
 often start to **boss" or criticize, or even just tell you 
 what to do, when you feel that it isn't necessary. 
 
 Sometimes they are so accustomed to running things 
 that they forget to giye you your turn; and sometimes, 
 
BLUEBIRDS FOR HAPPINESS 133 
 
 especially if they are Junior Citizens, they are so eager to 
 run things themselves that they try to take part of your 
 share. No matter what the reason is, you've got to learn 
 to drive, to be your own best boss, as we studied in the 
 lessons on "Following the Star." If you get cranky, you 
 are not guiding. You prove that you are still scared and 
 think that somebody is going to run into you. If you 
 flare up, you start a fire in the other person. You have 
 to learn the biggest choosing. How can you do it? Try 
 to think. 
 
 If an older person is the one who is seeming to try to 
 take the wheel from your hands, can't you quietly ex- 
 plain, after you have prayed a bit silently? Why not help 
 the other person to understand by asking that a chance 
 be given you to prove what fine initiative and self- 
 reliance you are capable of showing; what an excellent 
 citizen you can prove yourself to be! People will usually 
 listen if you are nice about it, especially if you speak 
 gently and smile in a courteous, considerate way that 
 shows that you want to play fair. 
 
 If it is another Junior, just remember that whatever 
 you say and do is going to make it either hard or easy for 
 him to be a good citizen. "Watch Your Words." If you 
 can keep yourself steady, you can show him how to play 
 fair, and both of you will gain. 
 
 With either the older people or with Juniors, do you 
 think it can help to be ugly? Does it get you anywhere? 
 Some folks aren't quite sure. They rather enjoy letting 
 go. It gives them a feeling of freedom and power. Is this 
 a good kind? Or is it only pirate living? Another reason 
 why some folks like to indulge in angry spells is because 
 they think they can get what they choose by doing so; 
 trying to make people give them what they want rather 
 than stand the horrid times when they are angry. Big 
 
134 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 squalling babies, aren't they? Some others do it because 
 it is the only way they know of making other folks 
 obey them, and this is what they want. They are so small 
 in their living that they resort to a mean trick like this 
 to prove how big and powerful they wish they were. 
 
 Still other folks get angry because they have not 
 learned any better way of securing justice and making 
 things come right. They are afraid of the person with 
 whom they are angry, afraid of being mastered by that 
 person. They are strong enough to want fair play and 
 to try to get it instead of giving up discouraged, but they 
 feel weak and unable to meet the other person's attitude 
 except by an angry protest. Of course the other one does 
 not understand and regards it as a sign of an ugly dis- 
 position. Perhaps this may be true in your case. If so, 
 you have a lot of adventures ahead as you learn how to 
 rely on God to keep you quiet and strong, instead of 
 doing unworthy things. 
 
 It may help you to know that many grown people have 
 this difficulty. You will see it showing every now and 
 then. Usually they did not get a good start. Probably 
 when they were little, somebody was bossy or cranky or 
 interfered needlessly with them. Perhaps somebody 
 thought it was funny to see them get *^mad" when they 
 were teased. (You've seen folks who did such things to 
 a baby and laughed at it, but later, when it was a little 
 older, scold it for being ugly tempered.) Maybe it was a 
 bossy brother or a very nagging sister who interfered with 
 their initiative and development. Whatever the reason, 
 these unfortunate older people still carry with them deep 
 in their minds the picture of what happened. They may 
 have forgotten it, but the picture is still there, and away 
 deep down is the old angry feeling. So without realizing 
 it when somebody annoys them now, the happenings of 
 
BLUEBIRDS FOR HAPPINESS 135 
 
 to-day combine with the buried feeling of the old expe- 
 riences just like two big soap bubbles when you put them 
 together. And then they get a big anger, and soon there 
 is a smash-up. Think how immensely strong the habit 
 has grown through the years of doing these things. Can 
 you afford to risk becoming like them? You know better 
 and are having chances that they never had. Will you 
 not have to count in these things when you must play fair 
 with such an unfortunate grown person the next time 
 that trouble starts? You will have to help be good for 
 both. Just what will be your share as a Junior Citizen in 
 preventing more trouble for them on your account? Just 
 how can you help? 
 
 Perhaps you have found out that when you try to con- 
 trol your temper by just cramming it back and holding 
 in the ugly things that you want to do and say, it sud- 
 denly breaks loose and you do something that you are 
 sorry for even when you least expect it. Some tiny thing 
 makes it come up like those funny little heads that spring 
 up out of the Jack-in-the-Box playthings that children 
 have. The lid flies off and up your temper comes with its 
 ugly old face. That happens because you were trying to 
 be good by just holding in. You haven't learned to use 
 your temper. Look up Proverbs 19: n, Proverbs 15: i, 
 Romans 12:21, Luke 6:32-33 and Galatians 5:13-15, 
 and see if you can work out for yourself ways of using 
 God's life lovingly instead of wasting it in temper. May- 
 be you may not succeed the first time you try to live the 
 new way. Never mind. Keep at it. It is just like learn- 
 ing a game, or practicing for a race. Think back to what 
 we read about the tremendous strength of the bad- 
 temper habit that some persons have. We talked of it in 
 the lesson on "The Game." Let that be a measure to 
 show you how wonderful the new and better habit can 
 
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 be in you if you practice year by year in constant choices 
 of what you really wish to have when it is "ripe." 
 
 Temper is grit, or power going to waste, you remember. 
 And God is Love. Which do you choose? 
 
 Bluebird Searchings 
 
 Jesus said, "Blessed are the meek," those who have no 
 antagonisms, no ugly fighting places, no scratchy sur- 
 faces to rub against other people or to be bimiped by 
 them. Why are they "blessed" or happy? 
 
 How can you have true adventures of spirit in changing 
 from discouragement to a new enthusiastic effort ? 
 
 How is it possible to have a real adventure with yourself 
 or with other people in regard to temper and moods 
 like it? 
 
 In an old-time story book there was a story of a boy who 
 was easily discouraged and who had a nasty temper. As 
 he went on a journey much like Alice's Adventures in 
 Wonderland, he was reminded over and over of this 
 verse, which helped him to win out. 
 
 "Keep your temper. 
 Never give in, 
 And success you'll surely win." 
 
 Write in your notebook or tell in class why these two 
 
 points can promise success. 
 If an older citizen is cranky to you, are you justified in 
 
 becoming cross or in losing your temper? Why? What 
 
 can you do to bring "happiness" instead? 
 What Bluebird tests have you passed since you began these 
 
 two lessons? 
 Here is a part of a psalm for you to think about and 
 
 memorize, if you have not done so already. Psalm 1:1-3: 
 
 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel 
 
 of the wicked, 
 Nor standeth in the way of sinners, 
 
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 Nor sitteth in the seat of the scoffers: 
 
 But his delight is in the law of Jehovah; 
 
 And on his law doth he meditate day and night. 
 
 And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams 
 
 of water, 
 That bringeth forth its fruit in its season, 
 Whose leaf also doth not wither; 
 And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 
 
 What is the kingdom law by which such a man guides his 
 conduct and achieves success instead of being proud, 
 scornful and disagreeable? 
 
 What is the best way to 'Turn Your Diamond'*? 
 
GROUP XI 
 
 Lessons 21 and 22 
 
 TESTS OF COURAGE 
 
 Tests of courage for everyday 
 and for special times are what 
 we will aim to work out in this 
 new group of lessons since cit- 
 izenship of quality requires cour- 
 age of the finest kind. Just as an 
 Indian lad must learn to shoot 
 straight to the mark with his 
 arrows, so you as a Junior 
 Citizen are going to practice in 
 order to form the habits that 
 will give to your courage the 
 surest aim. Before you come to 
 
 the time of full citizenship you will test yourself out again 
 
 and again. 
 As you do so you may like to think of this Bible verse 
 
 which holds a courage secret. It is the first verse of 
 
 Psalm 27. 
 
 Jehovah is my light and my salvation; 
 Whom shall I fear? 
 Jehovah is the strength of my life; 
 Of whom shall I be afraid? 
 
 •AIM STRAIGHT" 
 
 LESSON 21 
 
 EVERYDAY ADVENTURES 
 
 Did you know that some of the old fairy tales that you 
 used to read can come true in your everyday living? Take 
 
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 Jack the Giant Killer, for instance. Just as he found 
 adventures in the course of his journeyings and found 
 ways of overcoming his huge enemies, so you can have 
 adventures and make courageous conquests from day to 
 day. Every hard task, every difl&cult thing, instead of 
 overwhehning you, stealing away your courage and 
 making you pity yourself because you have such a hard 
 lot, can really become a challenge to you to test your 
 ability and courage. Then, instead of being a cowardly 
 person who sees only the difficult part, you can be one 
 of those courageous souls who are on the lookout to dis- 
 cover in hard things adventures. 
 
 What does it matter if the thing is hard? Are you eager 
 to prove how weak you are? If you master things, isn't 
 it a proof of your courage and your power? In whose 
 strength do you live? What about the Bible verse with 
 its secret for courage? Now that you come to see some 
 of these things, aren't folks really funny sometimes in the 
 way that they act? 
 
 Perhaps you may catch a glimpse of something funny 
 in yourself that you never supposed was there if you will 
 just look closely enough. When you are promoted from 
 easy work to something harder, to a higher grade or a 
 bigger undertaking, of course you feel pleased and a bit 
 proud of this proof of your ability and progress. But 
 when the slow, hard part of the new work begins, does 
 the happy music that was inside you change to a doleful 
 wail about how hard you have to work and a complaint 
 that there isn't any fun in this thing? And then when you 
 manage to succeed do you find yourself bragging about 
 what a "lot of work" it had been, and do you feel big 
 and satisfied with yourself again? Aren't you rather 
 funny, now that you think of it all? Do you Hve in 
 minutes or in meanings? Isn't it the spirit of the mean- 
 
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 ings that makes the minutes count whether for cowardice 
 or courage? Next time, how will it do to ask yourself, 
 "Am I showing the courage that makes adventures?*' 
 
 You can have a wonderfully good time as you explore 
 each difficult thing and master it. This means exactly 
 what it says. You can actually have fun out of the hard 
 things. Don't you like to win a hard game better than 
 an easy one? Then think and see that every disagreeable 
 task, every hard decision, every difficult undertaking 
 holds hidden treasure, something that is worth your best 
 efforts and that calls to you for the courage of an adven- 
 ture in discovering its wealth. 
 
 You can even have an adventure in discovering 
 courage when you are discouraged. Let things come back 
 into your mind from tt^e time that you began to feel 
 discouraged. Find out just what happened; look even at 
 the uncomfortable, disagreeable, discouraging facts, 
 whatever they may be. You can't afford to make a Jack- 
 in-the-Box of them, you know. Do not brood, but look 
 to see just where you were at fault and how you can 
 change. Then make your decision for new courage, in 
 God's name. Find your adventure in using his life to 
 bring triumph out of defeat, no matter how long or how 
 short a time it takes. Make a big adventure out of 
 changing yourself from a citizen who is a nuisance, a 
 drain and a drag, to one who boosts and succeeds. 
 
 You can have an adventure if you use this God-inspired 
 courage when you are tempted to let your temper and 
 fiery feelings run away with you in irritability, stubborn- 
 ness, anger, etc. Indeed, these things can yield two kinds 
 of adventure. A quality citizen can be made from a 
 bothersome strife-stirring one, and you can adventure 
 with the other persons involved, for instead of getting 
 "even" by going down to a low, unkind level of living you 
 
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 can climb up the Jacob's ladder of prayer and choose to 
 give them your loving kindness. 
 
 In both the Old Testament and the New — in Proverbs 
 25: 21-22 and in Romans 12 : 20 — you will find directions 
 to follow in your adventure and conduct. 
 
 Here are the verses for you to see how both the Old 
 Testament and the New give you directions in almost 
 the same words. 
 
 Old Testament 
 
 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; 
 And if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: 
 For thou wilt heap coals of fire upon his head, 
 And Jehovah will reward thee. 
 
 New Testament 
 
 But if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, 
 give him to drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap 
 coals of fire upon his head. Be not overcome of evil, 
 but overcome evil with good. 
 This expression about heaping coals of fire refers to 
 the old savage desire for vengeance upon an enemy ex- 
 pressed proverbially by the thought of making him suffer 
 from the fire. But the only vengeance that a true 
 citizen takes is to do a good turn to the offender. Then the 
 "enemy" feels a "burning sense of shame" that makes 
 him desire to make things right, since he has not received 
 evil but good. If a return is made in a spirit like his own, 
 do you think there is much hope of mending matters and 
 changing to a loving relationship again very soon? What, 
 then, is "good business" from a citizen's point of view? 
 Do you recall the story of Jacob wrestling with the 
 angel? Jacob was facing something very hard, the results 
 of his sin of years before. As you remember, he had done 
 his brother Esau a great wrong. For years they had not 
 
142 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 even seen each other, since Esau had said he would kill 
 Jacob. Of course, remembering what he had done, Jacob 
 was afraid to meet his brother. Yet he must meet him 
 the next day. That night the messenger of God wrestled 
 with him. Surely, it was like a fight between his old 
 tricky self and the higher one. How he must have lived 
 over what he had done ! Probably he felt tempted to keep 
 on in the same spirit, for people often do when they have 
 wronged someone. But he must also have seen how he 
 looked in God's sight, and longed to be made right. And 
 so, in the darkness he wrestled with a man who revealed 
 God to him and who gave him a new name when he 
 insisted on having the stranger's blessing. From being 
 Jacob he became Israel. If you look up the meanings of 
 these names, you will see that from being a tricky, dis- 
 honest man he was now to live as a prince who had power 
 with God and men. 
 
 Did you ever wrestle anything out this way? Then 
 you know the wonderful change that came. Perhaps you 
 were trying to play fair with somebody whom you had 
 wronged. You didn't want to apologize, maybe; you 
 were ashamed and afraid to meet the person. But as you 
 prayed and thought, you found new courage and you 
 went and did the hard thing. Everything was straightened 
 out again and you felt like a new person. Now that you 
 look back over it, do you see what an adventure of a 
 spiritual kind it was? Do you think it was worth the 
 hard struggle to make an Israel out of your Jacob? Does 
 it give you more courage to adventure, the next time 
 that something happens? 
 
 There is still another way in which a citizen can prac- 
 tice the tests for this finest of courage. Do you remember 
 the Code for American Boys and Girls? It is in the book, 
 The Rules of the Game, Part of the code says, "I will not 
 
TESTS OF COURAGE 143 
 
 be afraid of doing right when the crowd does wrong." Do 
 you feel that you can say this of yourself? 
 
 Of course it is hard, one of the hardest things that a 
 citizen has to do. It is an immense test of his courage so 
 it is a chance for a supreme adventure. Who knows 
 whether in some way, either now or later, your courage 
 and your stand for the right may turn the whole crowd 
 in regard to this thing and start some or all of them to 
 making right life decisions besides. So do you dare to 
 risk not doing it? Perhaps the whole citizenship problem 
 for you and for them hangs on what you do. Will you 
 be dependable in this? Not by your own efforts alone 
 can you achieve the adventure, but you, with the power 
 of God living in you, can do it. 
 
 Maybe it may comfort and help you to think about 
 Someone else who was alone in his stand for the right, 
 whose friends went back on him, and one of them even 
 betrayed him to the folks that hated him. Yes, just as 
 you have guessed, it was Jesus, in the garden of Geth- 
 semane. He went there to pray. He needed comradeship 
 in his diflficulty, but even his best friends did not under- 
 stand and went to sleep, although he had told them that 
 he was sorrowful even "unto death." Alone in the garden 
 he faced an agony of spirit so great that it brought a 
 bloody sweat that might have killed him. If he had died 
 then, people could not have been sure of the wonderful 
 thing that he was going to prove. Three times he went 
 back to his friends and they failed him. But his prayer 
 to God for help and that his will only might be accom- 
 plished brought him aid from the invisible world. 
 
 A little later he was betrayed by one of those whom 
 he had chosen to be with him. He went on courageously 
 to his death, for only in this way — by being put to death 
 and buried, and then by rising again — could he make the 
 
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 world sure that death is not the end of everything and 
 that the soul's life goes on eternally. It was a magnificent 
 adventure of spirit, the greatest ever known. Being done 
 in the strength and power of God it could not fail. 
 
 Just as Jesus received help from the world of the spirit, 
 so peace and quiet come to you when you make it your 
 one purpose to glorify God as you adventure in doing 
 what is best for everybody, though all the crowd is 
 against you. So when the crowd is going in the wrong 
 direction and you must stand alone, take courage and 
 pray as Jesus did. If he could face what he did, alone, 
 in the strength of God, so can you. Know that God is 
 with you and within you, giving you life. Ask him to 
 put into your mind what to say, to show you how to 
 make the right way so attractive that the crowd will 
 want to do it. Help wiU come and you will find the way 
 to achieve your adventure. Remember your verse that 
 holds the courage secret and remember Jesus Christ as 
 he faced the worst that the world could do. It is courage 
 like his that brings heroic adventures. 
 
 Some Test Points 
 
 See whether you recall the verses by Sidney Lanier, the 
 lines from the poem **Sunrise" that you memorized in 
 the * 'Sunlight Living" group of lessons. Does this poetry 
 belong with these Courage lessons too? Why? 
 
 Is it true that **he that ruleth his spirit is greater than he 
 that taketh a city"? Which takes more courage? 
 
 How will you complete this — *T will be courageous as a 
 citizenand will not ^because I choose instead "? 
 
 Ask yourself, "How many ways can I think of in which 
 courage is a help in my good citizenship?" List your 
 answers. 
 
 How far does your courage or the lack of it make a dif- 
 ference to other citizens, both Junior and Senior? 
 
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 LESSON 22 
 WHEN THE CROWD LAUGHS 
 
 How do you suppose Noah felt when the neighbors 
 made fun of him while he was building the ark? Do you 
 think his feelings were anything like your own that time 
 when the crowd laughed at you because you stood up 
 for something that was right and that they did not want 
 to do? Did you have Noah-courage to meet the test and 
 to hold fast to the code ideal, "I will not be afraid of 
 being laughed at'7 It surely does take courage to be 
 unafraid of ridicule and of being thought queer. Some- 
 times you wish there were something to help you out 
 perhaps. Let us talk it over and do a little "supposing." 
 
 Suppose you are on a hike with the crowd and know 
 exactly which road to choose when you come to a cross- 
 ing. You are absolutely sure about it and nobody else 
 knows. Will you really mind their opinion very much if 
 they all insist on going the other way? Isn't there some- 
 thing that makes you feel secure in knowing that they, 
 not you, are mistaken and that they will find it out in 
 the end? 
 
 And you will not be willing to go with them the wrong 
 way either, will you? You'll march straight ahead in the 
 right direction and let them follow or not as they choose. 
 You know. 
 
 This is what will help you when you stand up for doing 
 right and the crowd laughs at you. The thing that will 
 help you not to be afraid and not to mind, will be your 
 being absolutely sure that the thing is right. You will be 
 able then to see where their road leads, and will know 
 that it will not take them where they would really want 
 to be, in the end. So you will not care if they do laugh. 
 You will know and will not mind because you can see 
 
146 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 that the laugh and the joke are really on them. Noah 
 let the crowd laugh, and went on building the ark. You 
 can let your crowd laugh while you go on building 
 citizenship. It isn't just comfortable at the time, but, 
 like Noah, in the end results will justify your courage. 
 
 If you think that it is hard to wait until the crowd 
 finds out its mistake, perhaps it will help to think a bit 
 about the quiet patient endurance of Jesus when the 
 soldiers and the crowd were mocking him and his mes- 
 sage. You know how they dressed him up like a king 
 and struck at him and spit at him. If anybody did such 
 things to you, probably you would be insulted and might 
 want to fight back. But Jesus didn't. He did not even 
 say a word. Now ask yourself this: Which takes the 
 greater courage, to fight back or to be undisturbed? Will 
 you achieve it? 
 
 Sometimes citizens "have their feelings hurt." Did you 
 ever have it happen to you? Yet, can anybody really 
 hurt your feelings except yourself? Why do feelings get 
 hurt anyhow? "Somebody says something mean to you." 
 If that hurts, is it because it is true? If so, you hurt 
 yourself because you aren't willing to recognize your 
 fault. The baby seK in you wants to think it is perfect 
 and wants everybody else to think so too. This is one of 
 the times that take real courage to admit disagreeable 
 facts and to change conduct. If the mean thing is not 
 true, need you mind? Are you afraid of being left out of 
 somebody's friendship, of being scorned? Then you are 
 hurting yourself. Make yourself worthy of the best 
 friendship in the world and the loss is the other person's, 
 not yours. Don't hurt yourself; make yourself. 
 
 If you are "hurt," is it your real citizen self that is hurt 
 or only the proud, childish self that wants to show that 
 it is perfect? Isn't the only injury that can be done 
 
TESTS OF COURAGE 147 
 
 caused by you when you are less than the shining, 
 glorious being who reveals God's life? Anything in you 
 that darkens his glory has to be taken away as quickly 
 as possible. If a friend shows you that you need it, have 
 courage to be grateful. There is a test in this. 
 
 There are other ways that test you for greater courage. 
 How about the courage required not to "take a dare'' 
 when it would be either unwise or wrong to do as you 
 are dared? Or when you have had a big disappointment, 
 and everything goes wrong? How about courage then? 
 
 What about the courage that it takes to stick at a job, 
 when the fellows come and call you while you are "mow- 
 ing the lawn, or something"? 
 
 Think about Peter, who wanted to fight back when the 
 soldiers came to take Jesus, and who later denied, three 
 separate times, that he even knew who Jesus was. Did 
 he find it easier to fight or to have the courage to face 
 the crowd? How about you when you have to face yours? 
 
 Which is the greater, the courage to die, as a soldier 
 dies, or the courage that it takes to live right and go 
 against the crowd? Do you have it? 
 
 Have you ever been discouraged — when you were 
 scolded, maybe — and thought to yourself, "I wish I were 
 dead"? Or have you been angry at somebody, perhaps, 
 and thought to yourself: "If I would be sick and die, it 
 would serve them right. Then they would be sorry"? 
 Whether you have "wished you were dead," either be- 
 cause you were discouraged or because you were wanting 
 to pay somebody meanly for something that offended 
 you, can't you see that it was courage that you needed? 
 Living seemed too hard; you felt that you were over- 
 whelmed by something too big for you to overcome. You 
 wanted to escape because you needed the courage to live. 
 Somebody found fault with you, nagged you, blamed you 
 
148 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 unjustly, seemed unkind and inconsiderate; made you 
 feel inferior and oppressed. You felt powerless to struggle 
 against them and against the whole happening and you 
 probably were not willing to look at the facts of your own 
 conduct justly, nor to admit whatever fault was there. 
 You were too busy with the other fellow. You wanted to 
 escape him; you thought that if you were dead, you'd 
 be out of it all and would "get even'' with him. How you 
 needed the superb courage to live in God's wonderful life, 
 instead of being a coward who wanted to die! 
 
 By this time you know that it takes even greater 
 courage to live than it takes to die as a soldier does. And 
 you know just where a citizen can secure all the strength 
 and power that he needs for this great undertaking. "If 
 God be for us, who can be against us?" Go back to 
 Psalm 27, in which we found our verse with the courage 
 secret. The very last of the psalm will tell you what you 
 must constantly do if you are to have the courage that 
 you need for living. 
 
 To some Junior Citizens — a few — the thought of death 
 seems terrible. They live in the valley of its shadow, 
 fearing its evil, though they never tell anybody about it. 
 They are afraid to die and afraid of the mystery of death. 
 Part of their trouble may come from things such as we 
 have been discussing, or they may have had a fright or 
 an accident and crowded its memory back in their minds 
 because it seemed too terrible to think of. New courage 
 may come to them by recalling all they can of what 
 happened, and then getting rid of their feeling by realizing 
 that it really does not matter, for Jesus proved by his 
 dying and rising again that life goes straight on and 
 does not stop although the body may die. 
 
 Whether or not you are a citizen who has had this fear 
 of death, you may be glad to read what an American 
 
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 Indian felt as death approached him. It is in "The 
 Change Song," an interpretation by Constance Lindsey 
 Skinner. Here are a few lines from it. 
 
 "... There is a sweeter song, my kinsman. 
 
 It is the Change Song of Supreme One. 
 
 I hear it now, 
 
 He chants it to my heart 
 
 Because pale death has crossed my threshold and 
 
 has clasped my hand. 
 Tear not,' sings Supreme One; 
 'I am making pure, making pure. 
 
 I destroy not life, 
 
 I am Life-Maker.' 
 
 "Ah! Ah! my kinsmen are wailing; 
 They saw me depart with death 
 Into the White Change. 
 But I go on — and on! 
 And I sing the Change Song of Supreme One. 
 
 »» 1 
 
 Closing Test Points 
 
 What arrow-tests for courage wotdd you Uke most to 
 pass, in order to win the citizen S3mibol for courage? 
 
 Have you earned any points this last week? 
 
 Look back to the "Finding Wisdom" lessons and see if you 
 understand more about what it means when your feel- 
 ings are "hurt." What is the straight aim that you need 
 to find? 
 
 Have you found the secret hidden in the Bible verse, 
 
 Jehovah is my light and my salvation; 
 Whom shall I fear? 
 Jehovah is the strength of my life; 
 Of whom shall I be afraid? 
 
 iProra "The Path and the Rainbow." Used by permission of Boni and 
 Liverightt publi^ers. 
 
GROUP XII 
 
 •UNLOCK IT" 
 
 Lessons 23 and 24 
 
 TWO PUZZLES 
 
 The next two lessons are 
 "A Rebus/' and "Wardrobe 
 Puzzles." They deal with two 
 kinds of things that puzzle 
 Junior Citizens. A puzzle is a 
 mystery. It seems closed and 
 locked, and we have to hunt for 
 a key that will open it. A pad- 
 lock has been chosen as the 
 symbol for this group because it 
 differs from an ordinary lock. A 
 key is needed to open either kind 
 but how about the closing? 
 Which one operates automatically? If we can get the 
 right key for our two puzzles, we should be able to secure 
 citizen-choices that will be as dependable as a padlock 
 when it closes. Once started the thing is practically done. 
 Think back to Lesson i as you study these new ones, 
 and see if this sentence is the key to select for opening 
 our padlock: "Seek First the Kingdom.'' 
 
 LESSON 23 
 
 A REBUS 
 
 Do you know the kind of puzzle that is called a rebus? 
 The kind where you have to work out the meaning by 
 putting together a string of pictures, letters, etc.? Here 
 
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TWO PUZZLES 151 
 
 is a very short, simple, easy one that will tell you of one 
 puzzle that Junior Citizens have to solve. 
 
 en: $5 bill :ING 
 
 If you aren't able to read it now, perhaps you will be 
 after you have read the Bible verse that follows. It tells 
 a lot about the big puzzle as well as the little one. It is 
 Galatians 5: 25, 26: 
 
 If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also 
 walk. Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one 
 another, envying one another. 
 
 Now turn to Genesis 25: 29-34 and Genesis 27: 41, the 
 story of Jacob and Esau. Of course you are familiar with 
 the story from having studied it before, but you probably 
 never thought about it in connection with citizenship. 
 Suppose you work it out now, just as if it were a puzzle. 
 How did Jacob violate the rules of the citizenship of the 
 good? You remember that we spoke of them in other 
 lessons. Why was it wrong for him to do as he did? What 
 was the reason for his wrong choosing? 
 
 Junior Citizens of to-day do not have to think about 
 "birthrights," but there are some other things about 
 which they often show envy or jealousy. Here is a sort 
 of outline list that you can fill up with items as you 
 think of them. 
 
 I. Favors 4. Presents from People 
 
 2. Money 5. Friends or Position 
 
 3. Possessions 6. Opportunities 
 
152 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 Next you might think out the kind of actions and ex- 
 periences that citizens often bring about by their envious, 
 jealous attitudes. What is wrong — the root of the wrong 
 choosing? Think back to the verse from Galatians that 
 tells about the rebus and then turn to Galatians 5: 13-15 
 and Romans 13 : 8-10, and see how these verses are re- 
 lated to the puzzle that Juniors have to solve. You might 
 also look up Genesis 4: 5-8 and i John 3:15. If anger is 
 a disguised murder desire, how about the conduct of 
 Junior Citizens when they show envy and jealousy to- 
 ward others? If murder feelings are poison to the one 
 who has them, love is the antidote for them. And love 
 is of God. Since this is the case, what is the key to the 
 puzzle? 
 
 Since you have gone this far, maybe you would like to 
 work out the citizenship damages — present and future — 
 that come from envious, jealous living and choosing. Go 
 over your list and think of the results to the citizen and 
 to others, both now and later, that might result from 
 such life standards. 
 
 What does "playing fair" require of a citizen in such 
 circumstances? There are two sides to this question. The 
 right-hand side can represent what concerns the citizen 
 himself and let the left-hand represent what others 
 must do when a citizen commits a misdemeanor of this 
 kind. 
 
 What big reason for choosing the best line of conduct 
 wiU make the right choice as easy as deciding whether to 
 take a shining new penny or a dollar gold piece? What 
 you have learned in other lessons should help you to 
 answer, and the slogan for this group may also help you 
 to decide. 
 
 But do you know how a citizen can seek the Kingdom 
 of the Good — when he does not want to? That is a rather 
 
TWO PUZZLES 153 
 
 big puzzle too. He can pray to want to choose the King- 
 dom way of living — to want to be good, to want to love. 
 If he finds that he is not quite sure that he even wants 
 to pray to want this, he can pray to want to want it. Or 
 he may even have to go back still further before he can 
 find a prayer that he can pray with his whole heart and 
 nothing held back. Then he can pray to want to want 
 to want to be good and to show God's love. Maybe that 
 sounds to you something like the nursery rhyme about 
 the old woman whose pig wouldn't jump over the stile: 
 "Water, water, quench fire; fire won't burn stick, stick 
 won't beat dog, dog won't bite pig, pig won't jump over 
 the stile, and I shan't get home to-night!" But you will 
 find that if you try this sort of praying, especially for love, 
 your stubborn pig of an "I don't want to" will start to 
 jump over the stile even though it may seem impossible. 
 
 Perhaps, too, it will help you to make him go if you 
 realize why you are envious or jealous. Isn't it true that 
 you are imitating a baby in this? You want everything 
 you see others having and you cry with your actions if 
 you can't have what you want. Aren't you trying to 
 prove that you are "just as good as anybody else" even 
 if you have to be mean to do it? Fimny, isn't it, when you 
 come to think of it? — ^rather baby reasons for choosing 
 and for conduct! 
 
 When you are tying up a package, every time you put 
 the twine around and tie it the bundle is fastened more 
 securely. The same thing happens with envying and 
 jealousy and feelings like them. Each time they are re- 
 peated makes another twist in the rope of the habit that 
 binds you tight until it becomes very hard for you to get 
 away when you are a grown-up citizen. Is this a good 
 reason for watching your choosing, time after time and 
 year after year? 
 
154 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 When you choose the loving way of true citizenship 
 and overcome your envy or jealousy by straight thinking, 
 the prayer that brings a beautiful spirit and kindly action, 
 then you build a habit of a different kind. Every fine 
 choice you make is like a bit of practice in playing the 
 violin or the piano. At first your fingers may not be quite 
 right and the tones may not be perfect, but as you go 
 on trying and practicing you become able to play more 
 and more difficult pieces and your music becomes more 
 beautiful. The loving choice is truly the key of your 
 citizen music. 
 
 This habit of choosing lovingly will make a marvelous 
 change in the citizen that you are making. When you 
 are grown, instead of showing that the demons of envious, 
 jealous thoughts are living in your body, you will have 
 the likeness of the Son of God. Surely, this is the choice 
 to make! 
 
 Puzzle Thinking 
 
 How are jealousy and envy **imripe'' living? 
 
 Have you seen a citizen who merited a symbol picture for 
 
 being generous and thoughtful of others where some 
 
 persons would have been envious or jealous? 
 If somebody shows envy or jealousy toward you, what can 
 
 you do that will make you a quality citizen instead of 
 
 an inferior one ? 
 Memorize the verses, Galatians 5: 25, 26, that express the 
 
 rebus of the puzzle you have been studying, and that 
 
 give its solution. 
 
 LESSON 24 
 
 WARDROBE PUZZLES 
 
 There is a difference between the puzzles that boys 
 have about clothes, etc., and the ones that girls must 
 
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 solve. Let us see if we can say it in a sentence. How is 
 this? Boys usually are as "scarecrow careless'' as the girls 
 are "baby doll fussy." And yet, aren't both boys and 
 girls often puzzled because they can't be allowed to do 
 just as they please about what they wear and how they 
 look? So here their puzzles combine. 
 
 Don't you think it would be interesting to think out 
 what these puzzles have to do with citizenship and what 
 solutions we can find for them? Perhaps we'd better 
 begin at home, for there is where a citizen often feels the 
 troublesome puzzle. 
 
 Home Citizenship, 
 
 Is it fair to the home folks to be untidy and careless, 
 or so busy "dolling up" and going that you don't want 
 to take your share of the homemaking privileges? 
 
 Is it fair to make it necessary for the folks at home to 
 keep reminding you about hair-brushing, teeth-cleaning, 
 and attention to nails and clothing, untidy bureau 
 drawers and clothes presses, etc.? You aren't a baby who 
 has to have these things attended to for you. Why not 
 look after them yourself instead of making it necessary 
 for other folks to do them for you with their minds and 
 tongues! Where are your initiative and your independ- 
 ence in these things? 
 
 It is all right to want to be attractive and to have nice 
 clothes, but do you think it is fair to be wasteful of your 
 parents' money either by being careless of your clothes 
 or by demanding expensive things for everyday wear, or 
 wanting to wear your very best all the time? 
 
 School Citizenship, 
 
 Have you ever thought that carelessness in personal 
 appearance is just about equal to saying: "I don't care 
 whether I'm an agreeable, pleasing person! I'm satisfied 
 
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 as long as I can do as I please and don't have to bother"? 
 Did you ever happen to think that careless personal 
 habits might lead people to misjudge you and give them 
 the impression that you haven't the fine qualities of 
 citizenship that you feel you possess? How do you feel, 
 yourself, when you see a neat, clean, attractive person 
 beside one who is careless and untidy in grooming. Which 
 would you expect to succeed better in the business world? 
 Would you think it appropriate if the teacher came with 
 dirty face and hands and uncombed hair? Or if the 
 minister got up to preach in a pair of overalls or with 
 hands and face smeared after working on his automobile? 
 Why, then, should you excuse yourself from grooming 
 yourself nicely? Where is there any real difference? 
 
 And, girls — how about it? Does a woman think it 
 suitable to wear a party dress when getting the break- 
 fast, or cleaning the windows, or going to market? Why 
 should you want to be "dolled up" all the time regardless 
 of whether it is appropriate or not? Think out what 
 "suitable" dress should be — the kind that suits what you 
 are doing at the time you wear it, and that truly ex- 
 presses you. 
 
 Have you such an exaggerated sense of your own im- 
 portance that you want to try to outdress others? Is it 
 "fair" — even though you succeed in persuading your 
 parents to buy you the things you want and demand — 
 if your having them and wearing them makes other girls 
 uncomfortable or demand more than their parents can 
 afford for them? Are you at all responsible for them? 
 
 Exaggerated dress is much like singing at the top of 
 your voice as you go along the street to attract attention. 
 It is out of place. And it may cause people to misjudge 
 you. Think out ways in which this is true. 
 
 In many schools either the girls or the authorities have 
 
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 set definite limits for the dress of the girls who attend. 
 What is the standard in your school? Do you see an 
 opportunity for you and your friends, as good citizens, 
 to show some fine initiative in deciding the dress problems 
 on a basis of citizenship instead of letting matters go as 
 they have been? What is your share in bringing your 
 school to a better standard? 
 
 Citizenship of the Good. 
 
 If you will turn to i Corinthians 6: 19-20 you will find 
 verses something like some that we referred to in the 
 lessons of another group. But look especially at the last 
 part of this and see if you find in it a key for the clothing 
 puzzles of both boys and girls — "Glorify God, therefore, 
 in your body." If you really feel that your body is a 
 temple of God's Spirit, will you want to be careless or 
 exaggerated in your dress? Which sort of choosing would 
 put God into second place and you as the deity of the 
 temple? Would such choosing and living make the superb 
 sort of citizen that you are wanting to become? Is it your 
 wish to live in a way that seems to say, "I don't care 
 anything about this old temple. Anything will do. It is 
 too much bother to be careful"? And do you think, girls, 
 that a church should be fixed up to look like a picture 
 show? How about your personal "temple"? Does it 
 "glorify God"? 
 
 More Puzzle Thinking 
 
 A man called ''Beau Brummel," who was famous for being 
 the best-dressed man of his time, was told by someone 
 that a certain man was so well dressed that everybody 
 on the streets turned to look at him. Beau Brummel 
 replied that if that were the case, the man was not truly 
 well dressed or he would not have attracted attention. 
 Do you understand what he meant? 
 
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 If the soldiers found that it was a great help to be neat 
 and clean and to keep themselves tidily in order, is 
 there any reason why Junior Citizens should let them- 
 selves be careless? 
 
 How have you pictured the way that a citizen of the king- 
 dom of God should appear? 
 
 Do you think that we foimd the right key to our puz- 
 zles in the words, *'Seek first the Kingdom"? 
 
GROUP XIII 
 
 'COUNT UP" 
 
 Lessons 25 and 26 
 
 COUNTING UP 
 
 Most citizens would like to 
 have a well-filled purse. If some- 
 body gave you one, you would 
 enjoy counting up what was in 
 it to see how much it was worth. 
 You would be greatly disap- 
 pointed if you found bills that 
 were counterfeit or coins from a 
 country whose currency is not 
 worth the same as ours and not 
 accepted here. You would want 
 them to have full value and be 
 of an acceptable standard. 
 On account of this a purse is the symbol for these next 
 lessons, to represent the measure of value that true 
 citizens want for their living and loving and doing. They 
 do not wish counterfeits, nor do they desire what is un- 
 worthy. 
 
 King Solomon at the beginning of his reign dreamed 
 that he had made a true citizen's choice. Instead of 
 choosing riches, honor and other things of that kind, he 
 asked for something else and received God's approval of 
 it. You can read what God said to him, in i Kings 3 : 
 10-14. Here is a part of his prayer that every Junior 
 Citizen might use: "Give thy servant an understanding 
 heart." 
 
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 LESSON 25 
 MONKEY LIVING 
 
 Do you remember about the Bandar-Log that we 
 talked of once before? In the story of "Kaa's Hunting" 
 of the Bandar-Log there are some places that are funny 
 because of the way that they show up counterfeit living 
 whether in monkeys or in people. One place is where the 
 monkeys are described as they acted in the Deserted 
 City. 
 
 There, in the hall of the King's council-chamber, they 
 would sit in groups, scratching for fleas and pretending 
 to be men. They would scamper through the passages 
 and rooms and tunnels, forgetting whether they had been 
 in them before or not. As they moved around in 
 crowds they would say that they were doing as men 
 did. And though they muddied the water in the tanks 
 when they drank they declared they were the wisest, 
 best, strongest, cleverest and gentlest people of the 
 Jungle. And you remember how they were always 
 wanting to be ^'noticed" by the Jungle people and 
 would do almost anything to attract their attention. 
 And then at the close of the story there is a funny 
 verse which says that they tried to remember all the 
 different kinds of talk they had ever heard — that of 
 bats and beasts and birds and fishes — and then jabber 
 it all at once, in order to make it seem that they were 
 talking just like men! 
 
 Silly imitators, weren't they! But there are people 
 who '^ape" the clothes and manners and speech of others 
 in just such an unthinking way. They are what children 
 caU "copy cats." Perhaps you know persons who are 
 like that — always imitating, always going with the crowd, 
 deciding the right or the wrong of their conduct by, "All 
 
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 the rest are doing it." They follow all the silly fads they 
 see, and make freak fashions more extreme as they try 
 to keep up with "the latest style." What monkeys they 
 are! what Bandar-Logs! 
 
 What has become of the fine originality and initiative 
 and self-reliance that these people should be showing? 
 
 In the Bible, in the story of David and Goliath you 
 will enjoy seeing how David refused to do any such 
 monkey living, but trusted to the weapon he knew and 
 to the blessing and power of God. You will find it in 
 I Samuel 17:33-50. As you read it again notice verses 
 38-40 and verse 45. 
 
 David wasn't going to spoil everything by imitating 
 unwisely, but chose to be himself, even though he might 
 be ridiculed. He knew which was the better choice and 
 did not mind. Put these two verses together and see the 
 superb citizen choosing that David showed — this: 
 
 And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; 
 for I have not proved them. 
 
 and this: 
 
 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to 
 me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a 
 javelin; but I come to thee in the name of Jehovah 
 of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel whom thou 
 hast defied. 
 
 Here are some items suggesting ways in which Junior 
 Citizens are not always so sure as David in their choosing. 
 You will want to think them over and discuss them in 
 class. 
 
 1. It is not the clothes that count as much as my 
 attitude and conduct as I wear them. 
 
 2. If I do "movie" thinking and fussy '^fashion-plate" 
 living, I am not expressing my true self. 
 
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 3. Good grooming — the nice attention to hair, teeth, 
 nails and details of dress — is more important than the 
 width of my ribbons, the size and shape of my collars, 
 and the way my hair is cut or arranged. 
 
 4. In selecting manners and ways of speech, the form 
 is not the most important thing, but the reason and spirit 
 behind them. I will learn to pick and choose in these 
 things in order to find the best. 
 
 5. If the hoops of a barrel slip off, the staves all clatter 
 apart and fall in different directions. I will find a big, 
 strong purpose to hold my living in shape so that it may 
 not go to pieces in unwise imitation of what other people 
 do. 
 
 David's purpose may help you here. And Solomon's 
 prayer may become the voice of your own soul's need. 
 
 Exercises 
 Write in your own words for your notebook what David's 
 
 purpose was in not using Saul's armor. How can it be 
 
 a citizen's purpose? 
 Is there any connection between this story about David 
 
 and the lesson on self-reliance? Explain. 
 How many tests of courage did David undergo in the story 
 
 you have been studying? Look over the whole tale from 
 
 the time of his arrival at the Israelite camp. What, 
 
 exactly, were these tests of courage that he met? 
 How can you learn to draw the line about fads and 
 
 fashions, **movie" conduct, story-book living, and the 
 
 manners and ways of older people whom you are 
 
 watching? 
 What is the value of an imitator's ptirse filled with Bandar- 
 
 Log thinking, choosing, doing? 
 What is the difference between wise imitation of a good 
 
 example and what we have called monkey living? 
 How can you, as a strong citizen, help the weaker ones 
 
 who are copying you? Will you be a David? 
 
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 LESSON 26 
 CITIZEN TREASURES 
 
 "Where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also." 
 Matthew 6: 21. 
 
 Older people — sometimes what we call good people — 
 once in a while make it very hard for Junior Citizens to 
 work out the values of conduct- treasure; the kind that we 
 want to discover in this lesson. Every now and then some 
 person whom we have admired, or to whom we have 
 looked for good example, says or does things that make 
 Junior Citizens uncertain about what are the really im- 
 portant things. Again and again some smart trick is 
 praised that is not quite fair to somebody. These "good'' 
 people are not good enough to see the very great dif- 
 ference that there is between true and false smartness; 
 between the kind that takes brains and character, and the 
 kind that is trickery and thieving and roguery in disguise. 
 For example, when the question of money-getting is the 
 problem, an older person may say of someone, "I don't 
 blame him for it, everybody has to look out for himself," 
 just as if that excused meanness, dishonesty, and not 
 giving the other fellow the square deal that you would 
 want for yourself ! Then when younger citizens hear these 
 things said by people to whom they look up, they begin 
 to wonder whether what they have been taught about 
 right and wrong is true, and whether the principles of 
 Jesus are just something to be talked about on Sundays, 
 but too hard or even impossible to follow through the 
 week. How can they know that such talk is like what 
 Jesus described as "wolves in sheep's clothing" ? (See 
 Matthew 7: 15.) 
 
 "What shall a man be profited if he shall gain the whole 
 world and forfeit his life?" asks Jesus in Matthew 16: 26. 
 
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 Money and success are good and important, but if a 
 citizen sells himself in order to make the bargain, is it 
 really worth while? If money were the chief thing we 
 were after in this world, then it wouldn't matter so much 
 if a citizen made himself "a cheap skate," a liar and a 
 cheat in order to get it. 
 
 See if you agree with the person who answered a dis- 
 couraged citizen by saying, "It all depends on the way 
 you do your bookkeeping.'' There are things of greater 
 value than money or success or position that you must 
 put into the account. These things have spiritual values 
 far greater than can be reckoned in money. 
 
 You may like to look up some references in your Bible 
 so as to study the stories of three different sets of people 
 who made some imperfect reckonings. The first is the 
 account of Eli's sons. You wiU find it in i Samuel 2:12- 
 17. Think carefully as you read it and see what was 
 wrong with their figuring. 
 
 Next we will go back to the story of Jacob and Esau 
 again to see whether Jacob reaUy gained as much as he 
 lost by his sharp dealings with Esau and his dishonesty 
 to his father (Genesis 27:2-25), and see how Esau 
 counted up values (Genesis 25:32-34). 
 
 The third place to look up is about the rich young ruler 
 who came to Jesus to find out about the kingdom of 
 heaven. Luke 18:18-30. Jesus saw that money was 
 worth more in this young man's eyes than character or 
 helping other people, so he gave him a test that showed 
 him how he was counting things up. 
 
 After you have thought about these people you may 
 like to begin working out the same principles in some true 
 stories of people who are living nowadays. 
 
 A woman who was hiring a teacher for a private school 
 had engaged one for a salary which was satisfactory to 
 
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 the teacher. But when word came from former employers 
 telling how valuable the teacher had been to them; in- 
 stead of congratulating herself on having secured a bar- 
 gain in the teacher, the woman in charge raised the salary 
 without being asked, saying that the teacher would be 
 worth that much more to the school. How do you reckon 
 up the honesty values of this decision and action? 
 
 A banker knew a widow who owned a nice farm. He 
 knew also somebody who wanted to buy one. He went 
 to the widow representing himself to be her friend who 
 wanted to help her get the money out of the place and 
 into a good investment. He persuaded her to sell the 
 farm to him for what seemed like a good price to the 
 widow. Then as soon as he had possession he turned 
 around and sold the farm to the man that wanted one, 
 putting hundreds of dollars into his own pockets. What 
 were the citizenship values of a bargain like this? How 
 do you think he was regarded by his fellow townsmen 
 after such a bit of trickery? 
 
 Now, a story just the reverse of the last one. An 
 American living in China needed a place in the mountains 
 where he could take his family during the deadly heat of 
 the summers. He owned a lot but was not yet ready to 
 build. No place was available for renting, but a chance 
 came to buy a house that needed repairs and alterations 
 in order to make it satisfactory. The price asked by the 
 Russian woman who owned it seemed too high, but the 
 American paid it to get the place. After the remodeling 
 was done it was found that the sale had really been a 
 bargain. A year or so later when he sold it again a large 
 profit was cleared. Then the American and his wife sat 
 down and figured out just how much they felt they should 
 share with the woman from whom they had bought. A 
 check with an amount in three figures was what they sent 
 
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 to her. Of course they were not legally compelled to do 
 it. They felt that it was only fair to her to do so. They 
 were not wealthy themselves, but missionaries on a salary 
 from which they had managed by economy to save dur- 
 ing years, enough for the little place in the mountains 
 away from the fearful heat of summers in the city where 
 they were stationed. The extra money would have helped 
 to build the new house, yet they felt that they would 
 rather pay it to the woman than use it in that way. 
 What qualities of citizenship did they show? Were they 
 right in their choosing? What citizenship rule did they 
 follow? 
 
 Perhaps you have overheard people telling of things 
 like these that have happened, both good and bad, that 
 you can tell about in class to see how the citizenship tests 
 apply. Perhaps you have known of Junior Citizens who 
 did the honorable thing when they might have done 
 differently. See if you can tell some in class. 
 
 Before you stop this lesson suppose you stretch your 
 imagination a little to make it reach to the time when 
 you are a full-grown citizen yourself. If you have learned 
 to judge values now, to put character first and not money, 
 do you think you will know later what to do if someone 
 asks you to take part in a grafting scheme or some under- 
 hand business? Will it be any easier to decide? If a per- 
 son sells himself out to secure special privileges that would 
 be unfair to others, what is wrong with his reckoning? 
 Do you see how a person who violates citizen rules sells 
 himself "cheap'7 
 
 Working It Out 
 
 Why is **graft" wrong? 
 
 Give some examples of ways in which Junior Citizens are 
 
 tempted to sell themselves cheap. Is there any test of 
 
 courage to be met in these things? 
 
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 What is the difference between true and false smartness? 
 Is it right to "do a friend a favor" if by so doing you 
 
 violate citizen rules? Just what can you do in such a 
 
 case? 
 If a citizen *s chief desire is to show the glory of God, how 
 
 can this become a citizen test for conduct treasure? 
 Memorize Solomon's prayer and decide why it is of value 
 
 for these lessons. Here it is again: **Give thy servant 
 
 an understanding heart." 
 
••GUARD THE GATE' 
 
 GROUP XIV 
 
 Lessons 27 and 28 
 
 THE KEEPER OF THE GATE 
 
 The month of January is at 
 one of the gates of time where a 
 year comes in as another goes 
 out. It borrowed its name from 
 Janus, the god of gates and 
 doors among the Roman peo- 
 ple. They thought he had two 
 faces so that he might look in 
 both directions and guard the 
 ways. 
 
 As a citizen you can be a 
 Janus who watches and guards 
 the goings and comings of 
 money. You can find out when to open and close the 
 gateway and the reasons for doing so. That is why a gate 
 is the symbol for these two lessons, "Your Money's 
 Worth" and "Goblins and Genii." You can have a most 
 interesting time experimenting as you become the guar- 
 dian of the portal. 
 
 Here is a citizen-thought that you may like to keep in 
 mind as you study: "Money has twin faces. One side is 
 Life and the other is Opportunity.^^ 
 
 LESSON 27 
 
 YOUR MONEY'S WORTH 
 
 When you have a nickel do you look at it as merely a 
 coin, a thing that will buy you something you like — 
 
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 chocolate peppermints, maybe? Are you sure that you 
 know what any piece of money means? 
 
 Perhaps it will be interesting to think back to the times 
 before money was used. A man has written a book about 
 money for older boys and girls. In telling about the time 
 before there was money he says that when "some people 
 found that they could make certain things much better 
 than their neighbors they made more of these things 
 therefore than they themselves needed. These they ex- 
 changed for such other articles as their companions were 
 willing to give up. It was precisely the same principle as 
 that on which two boys 'swap' a jackknife for a fishing 
 rod, or two little girls exchange a doll for a ring." 
 
 The same thing still goes on, for instance among the 
 peoples of the far north, who exchange furs for the things 
 brought by traders. In Africa too the same kind of ex- 
 change still keeps up, where the natives give ivory and 
 other products of their region for the traders' supplies. In 
 all of these there is a "trading'' of a thing that represents 
 one person's efforts, for something that required another 
 person's time and strength to prepare. 
 
 The first kind of money used seems to have been metal 
 rings of different sizes. Perhaps this had its beginning in 
 ornaments like finger rings, bracelets, anklets, etc. There 
 are still some countries in the world where a man's 
 wealth is computed by the value and weight of the 
 collars, bracelets, etc., that are possessed by his wife or 
 wives. 
 
 In connection with this early "ring" money you will 
 be interested to know that it is the kind referred to most 
 commonly in the Bible. If you will look in a Bible 
 dictionary under the word "money," you will find all 
 sorts of interesting things that will help you to under- 
 stand references in the Bible. You can have as much fun 
 
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 studying them out as you have when you are collecting 
 stamps and old coins and read up about them. 
 
 One thing that you will discover is that the word 
 ^'talent" (the story of the ten, five and one talents, you 
 know) means a circle or ring, and that it was a very large 
 piece that weighed about one hundred and thirty pounds. 
 You may also find a picture taken from the inscriptions 
 on old Egyptian monuments showing a man weighing 
 ring money. This picture is in a Bible dictionary that is 
 bound with the special ^'concordance" for the American 
 Revised Version of the Bible. Perhaps your minister may 
 have a copy that he would let you examine and take to 
 class. 
 
 As you probably know, before modern threshing 
 machines were invented, it took a long time and much 
 hard work to thresh out the grain that a farmer grew. 
 Here is an old saying that was a bitter jest about the 
 way some people spent hard-earned money. 
 
 "Come easy, go easy, 
 Daddy made it threshing." 
 
 Everybody in those times understood how unkind and 
 inconsiderate a son or daughter was who could spend 
 money easily and unthinkingly just because it came 
 into his hands or hers without costing them hard 
 work. 
 
 Contrast with this what a college student said in regard 
 to what money means. "Whenever I think that I'd like 
 to buy something — clothes, or candy, or a tablet, or a 
 book or a ticket for an entertainment course — I stop and 
 think of my father and then of the money. I remember 
 how hard he has to work in order to earn it, so as I think 
 of the money that the thing would cost, I say to myself: 
 ^This represents a piece of my father. Is what I want to 
 
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 buy worth that much of him?^ And that helps me to 
 decide whether to spend it or not." 
 
 In a college paper the student editors put this, which 
 shows what they thought of the way that some folks 
 spend money: "If you haven't earned at least a part of 
 the money to pay for your course by the time you have 
 reached your senior year in college, it will take a rich 
 daddy to support you after you graduate." 
 
 If you will think back over these three stories and what 
 we learned about the beginnings of money, and trading, 
 perhaps you can begin to see the reason for calling one 
 twin face of money, Life, The traders in times of barter 
 gave a thing that represented themselves and the effort 
 they had expended — bits of their own lives. The farmer's 
 children cared nothing for the life-cost of the money they 
 spent. The college student thought of a father's life and 
 work when considering the spending of money. And the 
 not-earning seniors in college were wanting to receive all 
 that life could give without using their own lives to earn 
 at least a share. Why should anyone wish always to 
 receive for nothing what other people must give part of 
 their lives to earn? Yet many Junior Citizens do. What 
 about you? 
 
 There is another very interesting thing about money 
 and life. From being a piece of someone else's life money 
 comes to you. Sometimes, if you have earned it, it be- 
 comes at once a piece of yours. If it is a gift of a part of 
 someone else to you, it can become a part of you, or be 
 thrown away, according as you use it. The same thing 
 is true of the money that you yourself earn; as you spend 
 it you either throw it away or you find that it brings you 
 something to enjoy or to wear, or to use, etc., and so it 
 brings to you a new piece of life. As you give out, you 
 receive. The gate swings open and something goes out, 
 
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 but another enters before the gate closes. As you give 
 life you get life. 
 
 Suppose we think back to Lesson I, and remember 
 once more from where our life comes to us. If life is 
 holy, if its power and beauty are of God, if in him we 
 live and move and have our being, how shall we think of 
 the money which is earned by the use of that life and 
 which represents the life of people as well? What does 
 the highest kind of citizen-thinking tell us as to the sacred 
 reasons for the wise and careful use of money? Why is 
 careless and wasteful spending a sign of poor citizenship? 
 
 In thinking about waste and carelessness in using 
 materials that have cost some person a share of his power 
 of life, you will find an interesting comment in what 
 Jesus says at the close of the account of his feeding of 
 the multitudes. It is in the sixth chapter of John, verse 1 2 : 
 
 Gather up the broken pieces which remain over, 
 that nothing be lost. 
 
 Although Jesus spoke of pieces of loaves and fishes, can 
 we not let it include whatever represents somebody's life? 
 Think up some different kinds of things that you can 
 gather up to prevent a part of somebody's life from going 
 to waste. Can you include the saving of pennies and 
 nickels and dimes and quarters, too? Why should we 
 throw them away or waste them? 
 
 Test Plans 
 
 Which is the more important to gain, the ability to make 
 money or the money itself? Why? 
 
 What do you think of the citizen whose chief question is, 
 "What is there in it for me?*' when a chance for citizen 
 helpfulness or service comes? Is there anything good in 
 such an attitude? Where is the mistake in it? 
 
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 Is there any difference between saving and hoarding? Ex- 
 plain the reason for your answer. Write this in your 
 notebook. 
 
 What is wrong with the fellow who says: "Fve got only 
 this little bit. I might as well blow it in. Being broke 
 isn*t much worse than this"? 
 
 Why is one of money's Janus faces called **Life" in this 
 lesson? 
 
 What changes have you decided to make in your use of 
 money because of studying this lesson? 
 
 LESSON 28 
 GOBLINS AND GENII 
 
 Probably there are very few Junior Citizens who have 
 not read nor heard James Whitcomb Riley's verses about 
 "Little Orphant Annie" and her stories of how "the 
 gobble-uns '11 git you, ef you don't watch out." Of course 
 you know that there are no goblins of the kind that Annie 
 tells about, but there are other things that "git you" 
 quite as disastrously when you do not "watch out." 
 Some of them we will call money goblins. Here are ways 
 that they "git" folks. 
 
 Debt. In olden times a debtor could even be put into 
 prison if he could not pay. This was true and very com- 
 mon at the time when Jesus lived, as you will remember 
 from the parable of the debtors in Matthew 18. Perhaps 
 you have been in debt to somebody. Did you ever borrow 
 a nickel or a quarter and then have to pay it back just 
 when you wanted the money for something else? Hadn't 
 the goblins put you in prison then? When you borrowed, 
 how much of your "life" did you give for the bit of "life" 
 received? The goblins fooled you that time, didn't they? 
 Wanting something for "nothing." And were you the 
 
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 least bit tempted to wish you didn't have to pay? Goblins 
 were after you then trying to turn you into somebody 
 who wanted what belonged to somebody else. What are 
 such people called when they grow up, if they do such 
 things? Goblins are trying to get you into prison, surely, 
 if you don't watch debt! 
 
 Wanting ^^easy money ^^ whether from parents or other 
 people. Same old story — wanting something more from 
 others than you were willing to give? Is there anything 
 of a cheat about this? How about the citizen who will 
 not do an errand for anybody unless he is paid a big 
 price? How about the bellboys in hotels who want big 
 tips for little services? Don't you think that they are in 
 the clutches of the money goblins? What kind of future 
 citizens will they be? They may have to fight the 
 goblins to keep from becoming money grabbers, grafters, 
 unscrupulous, tricky merchants and salesmen, etc. 
 
 Wanting money when it costs in character, "Do a 
 friend a favor" at the price of doing what is wrong? Sold 
 out to the goblins, "cheap." 
 
 ^^Get-rich-quick^' schemes — the old something-for- 
 nothing story again, or something far bigger than the 
 life put into the work is worth. You may read "ads" of 
 this sort in the papers, or you may know of men going 
 around trying to sell schemes of this sort to people in your 
 neighborhood. Perhaps you have known of friends or 
 neighbors who have lost hundreds or thousands of dollars 
 of their savings in this way. Goblins got them, un- 
 doubtedly. But how about yourself? Do you never day- 
 dream about "finding money" or "If I were rich"? Look 
 out, tliey are trying to "git" you! 
 
 Fear of spending anything because of being afraid of 
 having nothing later on; always seeing the rainy day 
 ahead — ^look up Matthew 5 : 24-26 and see if the goblins 
 
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 aren't making folks afraid to trust God for what is 
 needed. This does not mean that we should not make 
 wise provision for what may be ahead of us, but it does 
 mean that we should not save with a hoarding spirit. 
 Perhaps you find it hard to spend for fear you'll want 
 your money later. Too much of that kind of thinking 
 gives the goblins a chance to fasten the poverty habit to 
 your mind. 
 
 Miserliness. Do you remember the story of the 
 famous miser, King Midas, who wished that everything 
 he touched would turn to gold? And what a wretched 
 time he had with his food and his clothes? If a person is 
 always trying to make money, and to save money, just 
 to put it away and have it, is he anything like Midas? The 
 goblins are playing pranks with him. Are you stingy 
 about anything? Look out! Be generous! 
 
 Spending whatever you have as soon as you get it. If 
 money is life and holds the seed of more life for you, are 
 you losing your harvest, like the seed thrown on stony 
 ground and on the wayside, in Jesus' parable? Look out 
 for the "wantybuyit" goblins! 
 
 Spending foolishly and extravagantly. We have al- 
 ready talked of this a little. Is what you get in return 
 worth much to you, or are the goblins cheating you when 
 you spend like this? Better ask yourself the big question 
 that you find in Isaiah 55:2: 
 
 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not 
 bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? 
 
 "Bread" is lifegiving and symbolizes life. The marginal 
 reading for the word "labor" is "earnings." Now say the 
 verse over with these word changes; then memorize the 
 Bible form, so that you can always have this verse to 
 help you to think. 
 
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 Well, we are all sure that we don't want the money- 
 goblins to get us. And we are beginning to understand 
 what they are. Any way of getting, having, keeping, or 
 spending money that damages life, either ours or other 
 people's, is the goblin way. Does this give us a clue as to 
 how we may master money instead of being its slaves? 
 Let's see. How is this? — Whatever brings more life, or a 
 greater chance for it. Does this explain why the name 
 for the second twin face of money is Opportunity? 
 
 You remember, of course, that in the old fairy tales 
 like "Aladdin" there were genii who did the bidding of 
 the person who rubbed a lamp or a ring, or who had a 
 magic formula. There are genii of money that bring the 
 wealth of vast and countless opportunity-treasures to 
 those who have the secret of mastering them. A common, 
 everyday word is one secret charm that secures the 
 service of these genii. It has only six letters, "t-h— f-t." 
 Now do you know? Lots of people do not understand 
 this word and despise it as Aladdin's wife despised the 
 magic lamp when she sold it. They think that ^^ thrift" 
 means being stingy and close. You know better than that. 
 
 When you call on the money genii to help you to build 
 your palace of life, you plan to be thrifty, you ask the 
 genii to give you the opportunities for riches of happy, 
 worthwhile, life-bringing things both now and in the 
 future. "Thrift" means spending part and saving part; 
 wise use now and saving in preparation for wise use later 
 as good opportunities show themselves to you. 
 
 Right here you may be interested in what men who 
 have made millions of money have said. Perhaps you 
 already know Andrew Carnegie's advice to save a part 
 of every dollar that you receive. Will you save it just 
 to save it or to get ready for bigger things to come? 
 
 There is a man who has made a big fortune in auto- 
 
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 mobiles that have given the farmers great opportunities 
 for new life of many kinds. This man, Henry Ford, 
 understood thrift so well that he offered to buy the 
 world's "scrapped" navies in order to use the materials 
 instead of having them wasted by the sinking of the war- 
 ships. A man once said to him, "People who come at last 
 by real money never do it by saving." By that he meant, 
 piling up the dollars. Here is Mr. Ford's response: "The 
 thing to do is to put it back into yourself, into your work, 
 into the thing that is important, into whatever you are 
 so much interested in that it is more important to you 
 than the money." 
 
 The longer you think over that answer, the better you 
 will see how it shows the twin faces of money and the 
 genii at work. 
 
 "Put it back into yourself." Invest it for new oppor- 
 tunities to make yourself and to prepare to be of more 
 use. A Junior Citizen might do this in many ways. A boy 
 can invest his money in material that will let him experi- 
 ment; for mechanical equipment and for magazines, if 
 he is interested in scientific things. A girl might invest 
 in books that give directions for candy-making, doll- 
 dressmaking, cooking; and she might buy what she 
 needed to practice those things. Either boys or girls can 
 have gardens, buying the seeds, etc. They might take 
 lessons on a musical instrument, or in touch typewriting. 
 There are some simple kinds of shorthand that are as 
 fascinating as "codes," puzzles, and sign languages. Do 
 you see the genii at work? 
 
 "Put it into your work." If you have some way of 
 earning money, give yourself a chance to earn more. For 
 example, a boy who used his express wagon to deliver 
 parcels and do errands for neighbors in spare time might 
 save up and buy a bicycle. You can see how it will work 
 
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 in other ways that you will think of for yourself; ways 
 that set the genii to working for you. 
 
 "Put it into something important; into whatever you 
 are so much interested in that it is more important to you 
 than the money." For a Junior Citizen this may mean 
 many things: saving up for college or for a trip to a place 
 of historic interest, or to do something special to help 
 father or mother, etc. So you see it can also include that 
 very important thing, the part of your money that you 
 consecrate to God and give away. By sharing a part of 
 what you have you make room for more to come to you, 
 and by giving part away, you keep from being stingy as 
 well as glorifying God by serving him. True thrift means 
 being generous. Jesus spoke of it in Luke 6 : 38. 
 
 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, 
 pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall 
 they give into your bosom. For with what measure 
 ye mete it shall be measured to you again. 
 
 Is it your own money that you put into the collection 
 at Sunday school and church, and that you give to 
 various causes? Many people have found it a wonderfully 
 good plan to set apart a definite share of what they have, 
 for purposes like these, as God^s special part of their be- 
 longings. Sometimes it is a tenth, and sometimes more. 
 Then they always have something to give when appeals 
 are made, and can usually give more than by any other 
 plan. The tenth was the old Jewish plan. It was called 
 the tithe. In Malachi 3 : 10 you will see what the prophet 
 represents God as telling his people: 
 
 Bring ye the whole tithe into the storehouse, • . . 
 and prove me now herewith, saith Jehovah of hosts, 
 if I will not open the windows of heaven, and pour you 
 out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to 
 receive it. 
 
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 Of course this means more than giving a share of one's 
 money; it means putting his Kingdom "first" in our 
 thoughts and plans and actions. This, Jesus says, is the 
 citizen's way to abundance of every kind. 
 
 Special Work 
 
 The father of some Junior Citizens says that being in debt 
 
 is like paying for a horse after it is dead. Do you think 
 
 he is right? Why? 
 What is the test of wise spending ? What wise plans have 
 
 you made in regard to yours? 
 What are good reasons for saving? 
 Do you see any connection between having abundance and 
 
 setting aside a special share for God? 
 What part of your funds and time and living do you think 
 
 God's special share should be? 
 Shoiild you always take out the money from what you 
 
 have? Why? 
 If you make a fund for God in this way, will you ever feel 
 
 "I haven't anything to give" when you would like to 
 
 help a good cause? 
 Do you really want to master money, enough to keep 
 
 choosing as a citizen should? Or would you rather let 
 
 money master you ? Explain why. 
 Will prayer help you in any way, to choose? 
 If what you "really want" and "choose" is to live the 
 
 radiant life of God that is untouched by poverty or lack 
 
 and that has all his riches to draw upon, then you know 
 
 that "Money has twin faces, Life and Opportunity." 
 
GROUP XV 
 
 Lessons 29 and 30 
 TELLING TIME 
 
 "FOREVER—NEVER* 
 
 How long is it since you 
 learned to "tell time'' by the 
 clock? Probably it was "long 
 ago/' when you were rather 
 little. Perhaps you can't even 
 remember. The knowledge came, 
 perhaps a little at a time. It be- 
 came a part of you, and now you 
 use it without remembering just 
 when or where it came. But you 
 have it, and it serves you when- 
 ever you wish. 
 Perhaps the time will come 
 when you may look back and wonder when you learned 
 other things about "time" which you will have worked 
 out in these next two lessons. After they have been a part 
 of you so long that it will seem as if you always knew, 
 maybe you will stop and wonder how it came about. 
 
 Time comes and goes, and goes and comes, and yet it 
 is always here. The important thing about it, of course, 
 is what you do with it and with the things it brings to you. 
 Perhaps you know Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If," in 
 which he includes among his list of "Ifs," the one about 
 giving "the unforgiving minute its sixty seconds' worth 
 of distance run." You can't play fair with a minute after 
 it has gone, but you can be fair with the ones that are 
 here and that follow. 
 
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TELLING TIME i8i 
 
 Longfellow too writes about time in that poem, "The 
 Old Clock on the Stairs," which you may have read. Do 
 you remember this stanza? — 
 
 "Through days of sorrow and of mirth, 
 Through days of death and days of birth, 
 Through every swift vicissitude 
 Of changeful time, unchanged it has stood. 
 And as if, like God, it all things saw 
 It calmly repeats these words of awe 
 Torever — never 
 Never — ^forever.' '* 
 
 You can become your own clock, measuring time in the 
 value of what you do; saying "Forever'' as you choose 
 what is immortal and godlike and saying "Never" as 
 you put aside all that is unworthy. 
 
 As you think of the old clock as a symbol of these 
 things you may like to memorize a Bible verse for your 
 "time" prayer. "So teach us to number our days that 
 we may get us a heart of wisdom." 
 
 LESSON 29 
 THE TIME BANK 
 
 When you were little did you have a toy bank for 
 saving money? Perhaps you have a little bank of some 
 kind now, or an account in a real bank. Perhaps you 
 bought Thrift Stamps, or are putting part of your money 
 into some other kind of savings plan. The more expe- 
 rience you have had in these things, the better you will 
 understand about the time bank that everybody uses. 
 
 Each day every one of us has twenty-four hours' worth 
 of opportunity to live, placed to our account in the bank 
 of time. What do we do with it? We draw checks on it 
 for different things. Some checks are very large. Suppose 
 
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 now, you begin to make out what the business people and 
 the governments call a budget. This is an estimate of 
 the amounts needed for carrying on work, for recreation, 
 savings, etc. You can make first a day's budget and see 
 what checks you will have to draw on the bank of time 
 for different purposes. 
 
 Since the day begins at midnight you may as well start 
 to count there, going along through the whole twenty- 
 four hours. And since you usually are sleeping then, your 
 first item in the day's budget can be for sleep. How many 
 hours for that? Then for getting up and for dressing. 
 Breakfast? Going to school? 
 
 Now that you have the idea, go ahead through the day 
 and see for what you are using your life money. After 
 you have put down the items for the different hours and 
 have reached midnight again, begin adding up, all the 
 sleeping checks, and the eating ones, the helping ones, 
 the study ones, etc., in order to see just about how much 
 they make. 
 
 When you have done this you will be ready to work out 
 some other things besides amounts. You will examine 
 your budget to see whether you are using your life money 
 wisely in the kind of investments that bring good returns 
 which you can deposit in another department of the 
 Bank of Time in a savings account. 
 
 Take up the items one by one. You may as well begin 
 with sleep again. Here are some questions to ask your- 
 self. What is sleep for? Am I getting as much as I need? 
 If not, why not? Am I getting too much so that I am 
 growing lazy? Do I go to sleep at once on going to bed, 
 or do I waste part of the time in twisting and turning or 
 in thinking of to-day or to-morrow? Is my body quiet 
 and relaxed, or are my hands clenched and my knees 
 drawn up tensely with every bit of me feeling strained 
 
TELLING TIME 183 
 
 and tightened up? Have I overloaded with food, and is 
 my body still carrying a lot of waste that will poison me 
 through the night and tire me out by the tightened-up 
 condition it causes? How do I wake up; cross and tired, 
 or rested and full of "pep"? 
 
 When you have thought out the answers to these 
 questions you can see how much of the value of your 
 sleeping-time money is being lost and how much is being 
 invested so that you will be stronger, healthier, and more 
 ready to have a good time out of living. 
 
 Then go on to the other items and ask yourself ques- 
 tions about them. For example: Do I take more time 
 than I need for dressing? Do I dawdle and dream while 
 fastening my shoes or combing my hair? Am I in a wild 
 hurry and scramble? Why haven't I enough time? Does 
 my dressing time really get me ready for the day or does 
 it wear me out and tire me? How does this investment 
 stand? 
 
 Eating. Too much or too little? Am I gaining or 
 losing in weight? Do I crave candy and eat it between 
 meals and then not want good food? Do I rush through 
 my meals without courteous sharing in family life? What 
 do I do to make the meal time happy for everybody? 
 Think up other questions to test whether you are getting 
 full value from eating time. 
 
 Study, Do I do it with all my might, or with one eye 
 out of the window and both ears listening to somebody 
 who is talking? With half my mind wandering off to 
 something else? Do I have a lot of fun in really exploring 
 my lessons and mastering them,or doldream and dawdle? 
 
 School, There are lots of interesting things that you 
 might ask yourself here. Recall the lessons on school 
 citizenship and check up your own time accoimt from 
 what you have learned. Ask yourself now whether 
 
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 you are getting so much that is really satisfying there, 
 that you enjoy going? If not, do you know why? 
 
 Play Times. Ask yourself. Do I truly get a lot of 
 fun from them, or do I just "fool in the time'' aimlessly, 
 at one thing after another? Does my play tire me out 
 or give me more "pep'7 Do I try to stretch my play 
 times so that they use up minutes and hours that belong 
 to something else? If so, what is wrong with my play 
 time account in the Time Bank? Can I overdraw this 
 way and be a first-class banking-citizen? 
 
 Helping Times, Am I "too busy" to do my share, or 
 to grant a favor? How much responsibility does my family 
 find that I am worthy and able to carry? If I say that 
 1 will do a thing, can I be depended on? If I am asked 
 to do something, am I friendly and accommodating or 
 impatient and cranky? When I go on errands do I 
 dawdle and play, or have I learned to go promptly? Do 
 I accomplish the errand in an efficient, satisfactory way, 
 or do I "forget" things? When I have something to do, 
 do I do it "any old way, just so I get through," or do I 
 invent new schemes and better ways of doing it? Are 
 my helping times a real help to me and to the family or 
 is my account in bad condition here? 
 
 Odds and Ends of Time. What do you do with these? 
 Throw them away? They are like the pennies in your 
 purse. A lot of them saved up turn into dimes and 
 dollars. Do you know of anybody, or have you read or 
 heard of anybody who got ahead in life and made a 
 success by utilizing these odd scraps of time? What can 
 you think of to do in such odd times? Is there any 
 tinkering that you can do around the house that would 
 help develop your mechanical ability as well as be of 
 home-making value? Have you a corner of your own or 
 a place where you do a bit of experimenting? Is there a 
 
TELLING TIME 185 
 
 book that you can read, a little at a time, and think over 
 between whiles? Do you knit or sew, and have you 
 something of this kind on hand at which to work? Can 
 you not learn some nice poetry or a cooking rule, or some 
 Bible verses, or a scrap of your lessons in some of these 
 fragments of time? ^'Gather up the broken pieces that 
 notJiing be lost," you remember. 
 
 How about the phrase, ^*I haven't time"? If you really 
 want very much to do something, don't you "find time" 
 for it. Look out for your "want to" and your "oughts." 
 They can help you to keep this account in fine shape. 
 
 Sacred Times. How much of the day's time do you 
 think it is fair to set apart especially for God? In how 
 many definite ways can you employ it? Are you ever 
 still to look at the stars or the sunset, and to get the feel- 
 ing of the presence and power of God as you do so? Do 
 the hills tell you of his strength around and within you? 
 Do the sunshine and the blue sky and the moonlight tell 
 you anything of him? On a rainy day have you noticed 
 the beautiful colors that show where a spot of oil or 
 gasoline has dropped and the water is spreading it? And 
 do little lovelinesses of this kind, in common, everyday 
 things, show you something of his glory in human Kves? 
 If you live on the prairie, as you look out across the 
 spaces of sky and earth; or if you live by the lake shore 
 or the ocean, do you ever think of lines from a beautiful 
 hymn? — 
 
 "There's a wideness in God's mercy 
 Like the wideness of the sea." 
 
 "For the love of God is broader 
 
 Than the measure of man's mind, 
 And the heart of the Eternal 
 Is most wonderfully kind." 
 
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 Have you the habit of quick thoughts of the presence 
 of God as you go through the day — brief, holy times of 
 prayer and lovingness that go with whatever happens? 
 Do you give God more than these odds and ends of time? 
 Have you a while for seeking him specially, day by day? 
 Do you read and study your Bible and prepare your 
 special lessons in a part of the day that you set aside as 
 God's share? If not, why not? If you want to be with 
 your chum, you can make the time for it, so why can you 
 not plan for such times with God and keep them lovingly 
 and faithfully? 
 
 Now that you have thought over your time accounts, 
 see what the investment is going to be worth in another 
 way. You might think ahead ten years or more and see 
 whether what you are doing now is going to bring you 
 something worth having then; something that will be the 
 interest on your savings account in God's Bank of Time. 
 Think carefully and see what changes might bring you 
 greater value for your time-money as a citizen of God's 
 great kingdom. Here is a Bible verse for you to think 
 over as you work out these accounts. Galatians 6: 9. 
 
 And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due 
 season we shall reap, if we faint not. 
 
 When do you think that the reaping time — the interest 
 gathering time — should begin? 
 
 Test Work 
 
 Ask yourself these questions to see what you have learned: 
 Do I understand the meaning of the expression, "Time is 
 
 money"? 
 When I am ten minutes late in keeping an appointment, 
 
 do I steal somebody's time? What habit shall I make to 
 
 prevent this? 
 
TELLING TIME 187 
 
 If I promise to do something at a definite time, what is 
 
 the quality of my citizenship if I neglect to do as I 
 
 promised? What practice will I undertake to avoid this 
 
 inferior citizenship ? 
 If I waste the time of a teacher, or of someone at home, 
 
 by dawdling and the like, what facets of my citizenship 
 
 diamond am I chipping and spoiling? What good thing 
 
 will I choose instead? 
 When I am late in getting up in the morning, how many 
 
 persons have their time budgets disturbed by me ? What 
 
 will I do about this? 
 Is it any more important to be on time to catch a train 
 
 than it is to be on time for meals ? How can I live up to 
 
 this standard? 
 How many points have I scored this week by a fine and 
 
 careful use of time? 
 Make records of these things in your notebook if you really 
 
 think them important and want to have them as 
 
 reminders. 
 
 LESSON 30 
 
 "A MOUSE IN THE CLOCK" 
 
 **Hickory Dickory Dock! 
 The mouse ran up the clock. 
 The clock struck one; 
 The mouse ran down. 
 Hickory Dickory Dock." 
 
 Here is a conundrum. When is a good time not a good 
 time? The nursery rime that you just read joined with 
 the title of this lesson gives the answer: "When there is 
 a mouse in the clock." Can you guess what that means? 
 Want a hint? — When there is something in the good time 
 that should not be there because it does not belong; 
 something that interferes with citizenship or spoils it in 
 some way. 
 
i88 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 In the old rime, when the clock struck "one" the mouse 
 ran down, and things were all right again. What can 
 striking "one'' be in the good-time clock? Is it finding 
 out what spoils things and makes a poor kind of fun? 
 If so, then when you choose the better way, "The mouse 
 runs down." 
 
 Suppose we look for the mouse in the kind of good times 
 that certain sorts of citizens enjoy. Probably they are 
 not your good times, but still it will be worth while to 
 see. 
 
 How about the sort of fun that means cruelty to 
 animals? You may have seen boys, and maybe girls, 
 laughing at a dog with a tin can tied to its tail. Somebody 
 else teases the cat or plays tricks on a horse. Have these 
 people progressed beyond the savage state? They find 
 fun at an animal's expense. What truly pleasant thing 
 can you suggest as a substitute for these things if you see 
 them done — something that will make the animal and 
 everybody around feel better? 
 
 Next think about unkind April Fool jokes, and "comic" 
 Valentines, such as hurt people's feelings. Recall the 
 lesson about the "Street of the Golden Mile," and see if 
 there is, after all, any true fun here. What spoils the 
 citizen value of such "good times"? You probably have 
 known of folks that thought them very funny. Why 
 were they mistaken? 
 
 Making fun of an unfortunate person : imitating a lame 
 one, poking fun at the deaf, laughing at a drunken per- 
 son, etc. Suppose it were you or your father or mother 
 or sister? WTiat are the opposite things that would make 
 the clock strike "one" and the mouse run down, and give 
 the people a real good time? 
 
 Tormenting a playmate by calling names, and laugh- 
 ing at him. Why does this spoil citizenship? What could 
 
TELLING TIME 189 
 
 be done instead, the sort of thing that folks would wish 
 to have done to them if they were in the other person's 
 place? 
 
 Teasing the girls. Does this make courteous citizens? 
 Why do boys think it is funny? Are they right? 
 
 Doing something to "bother" folks and to get them 
 "fussed" just for fun. Is there a "mouse" here? 
 
 "Getting even" by doing something mean to someone 
 who has been cranky and disagreeable, or who has 
 angered and displeased another. Is citizenship helped or 
 degraded by this? Is it real fun? Why? 
 
 Some citizens who are growing up thought of some 
 different things when they were asked about what a 
 Junior Citizen thinks is a good time. See whether you 
 agree with them, and if you can add to the list. 
 
 1. No work to do. 
 
 2. Movies. 
 
 3. Games. 
 
 Those three items have lots of interesting things in 
 them for us to think about. We'll take them up one at 
 a time. 
 
 First: "No Work to Do." Are even little children 
 happy if they have "nothing to do"? Don't they love to 
 be active and to accomplish something? If they cannot 
 think of something themselves, aren't they always asking, 
 "What shall we do now?" Perhaps you think there is a 
 difference between having no work to do and having 
 nothing to do, because the children are asking what they 
 shall play and not what work they may do? Perhaps so, 
 and perhaps not. Isn't the difference between work and 
 play mostly in the way we think about it? Let's think 
 of older boys and girls a little and see whether play and 
 work are never mixed up until you couldn't tell the 
 difference between them. Think of the amount of good 
 
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 hard "work" required in some kinds of play; building a 
 playhouse, fitting up a wireless station, gathering berries, 
 climbing trees to shake down nuts, sawing and hammer- 
 ing, etc., in order to make something to "play with." Do 
 those things, and others like them that you may think 
 of, take more or less than the amount of effort that would 
 be needed to mend something around the house, or to 
 put coal into the furnace, or to carry out ashes, or many 
 other things? A girl has a happy time making fudge or 
 perhaps a cake. Why can't she have as much real fun 
 getting supper once in a while to give mother a vacation? 
 A boy is too tired or too "busy" to go on errands or to 
 help with something that mother needs or father wants, 
 yet he can play baseball for an hour and a half if the 
 chance comes to do it. What's the matter, and how can 
 you make the clock strike to scare the mouse away? 
 
 Junior Citizens who want to do only whatever they 
 please and then call it play, call it "work" if it is some- 
 thing that they are asked to do. Funny, isn't it? Are 
 you one of the folks who think that a good time is doing 
 just as you please? Can you not get your clock to strike 
 by choosing to do what is best for everybody, and so 
 scare the mouse of selfishness away until you find that 
 you can have real good times out of what you called work 
 as well as in play? You know how fine you feel when 
 you've made something, even though it "took a lot of 
 work" to do it. Can you not find just as much fun in 
 doing the same work for somebody besides yourself? Isn't 
 the fun found in accomplishing things as well as in being 
 free? 
 
 The second thing was "movies." Why do you like 
 them? Because they're exciting? Because you feel as if 
 you'd been away off from the scenes and the people that 
 you are accustomed to? Because it all happens without 
 
TELLING TIME 191 
 
 your having to do anything but watch, and yet you feel 
 as if you'd taken part in what happens? You escape 
 from the things that are unpleasant and sit there enjoy- 
 ing what goes on? 
 
 Perhaps you are a "regular movie fan" and want to go 
 as often as possible. You don't like it if somebody says 
 that it isn't good for you to do so? Why do you suppose 
 they feel that way about it when you enjoy it so much? 
 It isn't so very hard to understand if you just get hold 
 of the idea. Did you ever try to live for a whole week on 
 a diet of chocolate peppermints, mince pie, and cake? 
 You probably are fond of each of them, but a week of 
 them would sicken you and give you no benefit at all. 
 How about the movie feasts? What do you get out of 
 the excitement? Does it make you a lot stronger "to be, 
 to love, and to do" — the three big hungers that humans 
 have to satisfy? 
 
 Perhaps some movies count somewhat with you in 
 such ways. To that degree a good time there is a really 
 good time. Otherwise there is a mouse in the clock. Then 
 time is wasted, your precious store of life energy is 
 gnawed at by the excitement, and you are less ready to 
 live than before. Besides, no effort of yours has earned 
 the pleasure you have had. This is baby living, and life 
 becomes a mere dream instead of something you have 
 earned. 
 
 Lots of citizens who go to the movies begin to do all 
 kinds of "monkey living" as a result. When you go after 
 this you will have a fine chance to test what you have 
 learned about citizenship and to watch that you do not 
 do any silly imitating of what you see there. You can 
 watch what the people in the play are doing, and see 
 whether their thinking and doing follow the rules of the 
 best citizenship. You can have interesting times discuss- 
 
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 ing your impressions and conclusions with your chums or 
 your family or whoever goes with you, or somebody who 
 has seen the film you saw. Then you will find that you 
 are having a real "good time/' one that has no mouse in 
 it, and you will have so much to think about that you 
 will not be ready for another movie for quite a while. 
 You'll have to take time to digest this one before you 
 want another. 
 
 Games. My, but this is an interesting thing! Have 
 you ever thought what games are for, why you like them, 
 what different kinds there are, and what they do to you? 
 Suppose you see how well you know games by trying to 
 name some. Here are words describing different kinds: 
 you tell what games belong with each one: 
 
 Exercise. 
 
 SkiU. 
 
 Quiet. 
 
 Thinking. 
 
 Guessing. 
 
 Comradeship. 
 
 Alertness. 
 
 Achievement. 
 
 Observation. 
 
 Team Play. 
 
 Now we'll think about what games can do to citizen- 
 ship. How do cheating and unfair actions spoil both 
 games and citizens? Are things like those the mouse in 
 the clock? What can you learn through games that will 
 help you to grow as a citizen? 
 
 Now let's see if we know how to test for a really good 
 time. There are two things that we want, and we must 
 say "A little of both, if you please," as Kitty did when 
 the Ruggles family were practicing for their Christmas 
 dinner in the story, "The Bird's Christmas Carol." 
 
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 1. Pleasure: That is, real fun, amusement and recrea- 
 tion. 
 
 2. Profit: Something worth while as a result, some- 
 thing gained, accomplished, or benefiting others. 
 
 Surely, you can expect fun that will be wonderful, in 
 your good times as you build for citizenship while you 
 enjoy them. You may like to think about Paul's interest- 
 ing remark about "redeeming the time" or "buying up 
 the opportunity" as the margin reads in Ephesians 5: 16. 
 Doesn't this fit in beautifully with what we have studied? 
 
 If you aren't having fun, and plenty of it, in your every- 
 day doings, right now, something must be wrong with you 
 or with your citizenship. Look for the mouse in your 
 clock, and let the clock strike "one" so that the mouse 
 will scamper away. 
 
 Special Work 
 
 You have a "mental movie" when you ^'daydream." Think 
 back to the lesson in "Finding Wisdom" and see if you 
 find the mouse that is in both kinds of movies. 
 
 What makes a good movie? 
 
 Is work ever play? When? 
 
 Ask yourself these questions: 
 
 Can I have fun as I work and yet not spoil the quality of 
 what I am doing? How? 
 
 Do I make my own good times, or do I want them made 
 for me? 
 
 What do my good times bring to me? 
 
 Leam this citizen prayer about time. "So teach us to 
 ntmiber our days that we may get us a heart of wisdom." 
 
GROUP XVI 
 
 Lessons 31 and 32 
 
 IN HIS NAME 
 
 Names are interesting. Take 
 your own, for example. You 
 have at least two — a first name 
 and a last name. The last shows 
 the family line on your father's 
 side, to which you belong, while 
 the first one tells which of the 
 family you are. Whenever these 
 names are used you know that 
 you are meant. They belong to 
 you and represent you. When 
 they are spoken or written you 
 and others know that they stand 
 for you. Your name means you, in a way. 
 
 The Jewish people used the name of their God not only 
 in prayer but in giving a blessing. When the divine name 
 was spoken over a land, or a place or a thing, it indicated 
 that the place or thing had come into special relation to 
 God, and represented him. So the ark bore Jehovah's 
 name (2 Samuel 6:2), "the ark of God, which is called 
 by the Name, even the name of Jehovah of hosts." 
 Solomon dreamed after he had built the temple and set 
 it apart as a holy place. He thought that God said to 
 him, 
 
 I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, 
 to put my name there forever (i Kings 9:3). 
 
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 "IN HIS NAME" 
 
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 The ark and the Temple became places where God made 
 himself specially known. They represented him and 
 were holy. 
 
 This may help you to get the meaning behind the 
 words, "In His Name," that are the keys for these last 
 lessons of your citizenship book. As citizens of the King- 
 dom of the Good we are called by the name of Christ. 
 We are consecrated and dedicated to God. Time after 
 time throughout these lessons you have come to the 
 thought that you are the temple of the Spirit of God. You 
 have learned that the great thing for a citizen to do is to 
 reveal God, to glorify him, to shine with his life and power 
 and beauty. Jesus Christ, the one who made the great 
 revelation of God, that makes ours possible, told his 
 disciples to pray in his name, and he said of them in a 
 prayer of his own (John 17: 26) : 
 
 I made known unto them thy name, and will make 
 it known; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me 
 may be in them, and I in them. 
 
 He taught them to pray and he gave them "The Lord's 
 Supper," which now is often called the communion. So 
 in these lessons you will look for how we can pray and 
 how we can join in the communion "in his name"; how 
 we may find and reveal God through them. 
 
 The church calls the communion a sacrament, a name 
 that came from a Roman word sacramentuniy which meant 
 "sacred oath." The gladiators and the soldiers took this 
 oath to pledge their loyalty. You may like to have a 
 translation of the words that they used. Then as you 
 renew your vows at communion time and rededicate 
 yourself as a citizen of the kingdom of God, those old- 
 time words can become your Christian prayer to God. 
 
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 Here they are, so that you may learn them by heart to 
 have them ready to use when you want to pray them. 
 
 Sacramentum — The Sacred Oath 
 
 To thee, Master, submitting myself wholly to 
 be and to do whatsoever thou commandest — ^to 
 thee subject most religiously, body and soul, for- 
 ever. 
 
 LESSON 31 
 "OUR FATHER" 
 
 Because this is a lesson on prayer you may share in a 
 secret about the making of this book that you are 
 studying. From the very beginning — the first ideas and 
 plans — it has been made through prayer. Some of the 
 prayers were through long periods of silence, alone in the 
 presence of God; sometimes they were the quick-as-a- 
 breath kind that came when other people were talking 
 and planning. Some were happy prayers of thankfulness 
 because some thought had come that seemed just right 
 for the book, and others were quiet, earnest prayers 
 during times when progress was slow and writing difficult. 
 As you notice, the prayers were of different kinds. But 
 there was one single thing that made them all alike, the 
 thought of Our Father, from whom all power comes. 
 
 When Jesus was asked by his disciples to teach them 
 how to pray he gave them the prayer beginning "Our 
 Father," which we all know so well. With those opening 
 words he took them straight to this innermost secret of 
 prayer and showed them the intimate contact with God 
 which makes prayer possible. In the rest of the prayer 
 he showed them that they might turn directly to God in 
 all they thought or experienced. 
 
 Every now and then through these lessons of ours we 
 
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 have referred to different parts of the prayer and have 
 found citizen meanings for them. Now, suppose you 
 begin at the beginning and go through item by item, 
 trying to discover ways in which it is truly a Citizen's 
 Prayer. As you think it out, bit by bit, from what you 
 have learned you can make from it a special prayer of 
 your own words. Here is one, just as a sample, to think 
 over and compare with the one that you make for your- 
 self. 
 
 A Citizen's Prayer 
 
 Our Father who art in the world of holiness, 
 may thy name be reverenced among us; may thy 
 kingdom of joy and happiness and glory be re- 
 vealed in us and in our dealings with others. May 
 thy will be ours as we seek only that which is best. 
 Day by day all our power of life and all that we 
 need comes from thy life and thee, for in thee we 
 live and move and have our being. May our 
 courage be strong in thee, that we may not be 
 overcome by childish or savage desires, but in- 
 stead may overcome evil with good both in our- 
 selves and in others. For thy kingdom of the 
 good is our citizen's desire, that which we choose; 
 and thine are the glory and power in which we and 
 all the world are one. Amen. 
 
 Our Indian brothers knew much of this secret of 
 prayer, this going to God in thought and feeling that 
 makes one with him. In a book called The Soul of the 
 Indian, Dr. Charles Eastman, "Ohiyesa," a nephew of 
 the famous old Sioux war chief, Sitting Bull, has written 
 these interesting things: "In the life of the Indian there 
 was only one inevitable duty — the duty of prayer — the 
 daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. His daily 
 devotions were more necessary to him than daily food. 
 
198 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 He wakes at daybreak, puts on his moccasins and steps 
 down to the water's edge. Here he throws handfuls of 
 clear, cold water into his face or plunges in bodily. After 
 the bath he stands erect before the advancing dawn, 
 facing the sun as it dances upon the horizon, and oiffers 
 his unspoken orison (morning prayer). His mate may 
 precede or follow him, but never accompanies him. Each 
 soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth, 
 and the Great Silence alone.'' Also this: ''Whenever, in 
 the course of the daily hunt, the red hunter comes upon 
 a scene that is strikingly beautiful or sublime — a. black 
 thundercloud with the rainbow's glowing arch above the 
 mountain; a white waterfall in the heart of a green gorge; 
 a vast prairie tinged with the blood red of sunset — ^he 
 pauses for an instant in the attitude of worship."^ 
 
 Here is an interpretation of something from the Navajo 
 Indians. It may say for you the unutterable things that 
 you feel when you look at the mountains or the hills, or 
 watch the rainstorms sweeping along. You will like the 
 way that the Indian longs for this holy presence to make 
 of him a superb character through the power that he 
 feels, just as you long for things that you scarcely know 
 how to express though you feel somehow, a holy presence. 
 If you like it enough, you might memorize it. 
 
 Prayer to the Mountain Spirit 
 
 **Lord of the Mountain, 
 Reared within the mountain, 
 Young Man, Chieftain, 
 Hear a young man's prayer! 
 Hear a prayer for cleanness, 
 Keeper of the strong rain 
 Drumming on the mountain; 
 
 1 Used by permission, Houghton Mifflin Company, publishers. 
 
IN HIS NAME 199 
 
 Lord of the small rain 
 
 That restores the earth in newness; 
 
 Keeper of the clean rain. 
 
 Hear a prayer for wholeness. 
 
 "Young Man, Chieftain, 
 Hear a prayer for fleetness, 
 Keeper of the deer*s way, 
 Reared amid the eagles, 
 Clear my feet of slothness, 
 Keeper of the paths of men, 
 Hear a prayer for straightness. 
 
 "Hear a prayer for courage, 
 Lord of the thin peaks, 
 Reared amid the thunders; 
 Keeper of the headlands, 
 Holding up the harvest, 
 Keeper of the strong rocks, 
 Hear a prayer for staimchness. 
 
 "Young Man, Chieftain, 
 Spirit of the Mountain!"* 
 
 Now let us go back to the very important thing about 
 prayer — realizing our oneness with God, and say it in a 
 diflferent way. Prayer is something like turning on an 
 electric light or connecting an electric sweeper or washer 
 or an electric iron or an electric stove. You get into 
 direct contact with the power that makes things happen. 
 The power is always there, just as God is always there, 
 although you have to connect up in your thoughts and 
 feelings just as you have to connect up the electrical 
 apparatus with the supply current. 
 
 When you come to think more about it there will be 
 
 » Permission to quote from The Path on the Rainbow, Boni & Liveright, pub- 
 lishers. 
 
200 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 some interesting comparisons between the things that 
 you desire when you pray, and ways of using those 
 electrical appliances. Let's see. You know about turn- 
 ing on the electrical light of course, from an early lesson. 
 That is when you pray to know how to shine with God 
 in whatever you do. Using the electric sweeper and 
 washer is like times when you want the power of God 
 to clean up some wrong or mistaken ways in which you 
 have been living. The electric iron is like the sort of 
 prayer that brings the peace of God into troublesome 
 things and smooths them all out and rests and refreshes 
 you, bringing blessedness to you and to other people 
 near you. And using the electric stove is like the prayers 
 that seek the power of God to cause many kinds of things 
 to happen that you want to do or achieve. 
 
 By holding yourself still and dropping everything else 
 from your thoughts, as the Indians did, as you think of 
 God, you can ''connect up'' by wanting him to show you 
 how to pray for whatever you wish or need. StiUness and 
 desire to know — these are the important things to re- 
 member. 
 
 No matter if you do not understand how prayer can 
 do all these things. Nobody knows just how the miracle 
 happens. But if you will make a habit of trying it again 
 and again, you will find out, as millions of other people 
 have done, that wonderful things do result. As long as 
 you live you can go on finding out more and more plainly 
 that prayer means listening to God, waiting to know, 
 just as much as it means making things happen. You 
 can learn to pray all day long in little bits of prayers and 
 make it such a habit that it will come as naturally as 
 breathing or walking. You can pray about common, 
 everyday things, lessons, letters, study, reciting, remem- 
 bering, playing, working — just everything! Prayer is 
 
IN HIS NAME 20I 
 
 finding our Father and bringing his heaven into this 
 world. 
 
 Review Section 
 
 Have you worked out a citizen's prayer of your own? You 
 need not show it to anybody unless you wish. 
 
 Does prayer have to be in words? 
 
 Must it be said aloud? 
 
 How can it help you to grow? 
 
 What is the most important thing for you to know about 
 prayer? 
 
 When you read over *'The Citizen's Prayer" in this lesson, 
 how many times do you find something that compares 
 with an earlier lesson that you have had? 
 
 LESSON 32 
 IN REMEMBRANCE 
 
 When this book of yours was being planned some 
 citizens who are growing up were helping to decide what 
 should be in it. They felt that you would like one of the 
 lessons to be about the communion, for they said that 
 they would have been glad of one themselves. They 
 thought that although most Junior Citizens know in a 
 way what the service means, many do not know very well 
 how to find help in it. 
 
 They had noticed that boys often feel bored and rest- 
 less during the time of the service that seems so long and 
 quiet. And they had noticed that girls sometimes are 
 nervous and excited and find it hard to keep from 
 giggling although wanting to be quiet. The excitement 
 and the stillness and their not quite understanding how 
 to take part sometimes makes the girls all wrought up 
 until they scarcely know what to do. Then when they 
 are feeling all tense, somebody giggles and the rest follow 
 
202 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 although they do not want to do it. Then somebody older 
 looks cross or scolds them so that the girls begin to dread 
 the times that the service is held. They almost wish 
 that they did not have to attend. 
 
 Another person said that often Junior Citizens are 
 puzzled because some of the older ones cry during the 
 service, and that others who seem most solemn and 
 reverent during the time of the celebration are cross and 
 cranky even about little things after going home. That 
 makes it seem as if the service didn't help much. 
 
 Your teacher may wish to tell you many things in 
 regard to the communion, but here in this lesson you can 
 try to work out how using the service, "In His Name," 
 can help with the difficulties that we have just spoken 
 of. In addition you may find how to use it in wonderful 
 ways. 
 
 You know how glad you are when you are invited to 
 diimer with friends. There is something about eating 
 together that makes you feel closer to them. Usually 
 people do not ask you very often to their table unless they 
 know you well. So eating with people is, in a way, a 
 sign of intimacy with them, a sort of sharing a part of 
 their life with them. 
 
 As you know, the communion is often spoken of as 
 God's table. We all as friends and children of his, gather 
 around to share in his life in a special and intimate way 
 for a while. The bread and the wine that we use carry 
 out the same idea of life that is shared. 
 
 You remember that in the lesson on money we spoke 
 of bread as a symbol of life. We eat bread to nourish 
 our bodies. And so when we eat the consecrated bread 
 at communion time we can realize that we partake of the 
 life of God which made the life of Jesus what it was, a 
 splendid revelation of God. As we think of his life-bring- 
 
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 ing death and recall his words, "This is my body broken 
 for you/' we can see again how he was offering us his very 
 life to share the holy gift that he had from his Father 
 and ours. 
 
 Wine too is a symbol of life. The juice of the grapes, 
 the life-giving substance of the vine, has made it. Jesus 
 spoke of it as his blood, and blood, we know, is a symbol 
 of life — the moving, quickening, circulating power that 
 constantly builds up our bodies and brings them new 
 life. 
 
 We meet at God's table to remember Jesus and to 
 share anew in God's life. No wonder it is a solemn, holy 
 time. But how can it bring us this life? If we can answer 
 this question, we can find help for restless, giggling and 
 tearful people who are under so much strain, whose lives 
 have not grown by their sharing at God's table. 
 
 First of all, we must get ready before we partake. We 
 must look at ourselves a little. Some churches have an 
 order of service printed out, that is very helpful in this. 
 In it are the test words, "Ye who do truly and earnestly 
 repent of your sins, and are in love and charity with your 
 neighbors, and intend to lead a new life, following the 
 commandments of God, and walking from henceforth in 
 his holy ways." This gives several helps for getting into 
 a right spirit. We can ask ourselves questions such as 
 whether we truly and earnestly turn away from the wrong 
 that we have done, whether we choose a loving attitude 
 toward everybody, and whether we desire from now on 
 to live as members of the kingdom of God, his family. 
 
 A teacher in a church using such an order of service 
 had a class that sometimes quarreled. When she saw 
 this beginning she would arrange to have the class attend 
 a celebration of the communion held early on Sunday 
 mornings. That helped a great deal, for, as she explained 
 
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 how they must be in a loving spirit, they would fi^d it 
 easier to make up and then would share the service. Your 
 church may not have this form of words nor the early 
 communion, but the story may help you to see how 
 getting ready can help. And you can memorize the words 
 quoted so as to think them over and question yourself 
 in preparation. 
 
 This too is the time for the renewing of the vows of 
 citizenship, for recommitting your life to God as you 
 partake of the bread and wine. You can think, as you 
 take the bread, "Yes, the very life of God, that was in 
 Jesus, is now being shared by me.'' As you do so you 
 can think of special ways in which you want to reveal 
 the glorious life of God in your own. It may be a difiSculty 
 that you want to work out. It may be a sin that troubles 
 you, it may be a subject in school that is hard. No 
 matter what it is, the important thing is to recognize 
 that you are being connected by your prayer with the 
 tremendous, infinite power of God, as we learned in the 
 last lesson. Of course you can't say the words as if they 
 were a magic incantation and expect results. It is the deep, 
 quiet knowing that your life is from God that counts. 
 
 When the wine is passed, you can receive it with a 
 similar thought as you say to yourself, "Yes, the trans- 
 forming power of the life of God is expressing itself in me, 
 now, that I may do, or be, or become these things that 
 will make me a finer citizen of God's kingdom." 
 
 If there is a long wait, either before or after you have 
 taken part yourself, you can be very busy with your 
 prayers. One Junior Citizen worked out this plan — to 
 pray specially at this time for people who were very 
 dear, and for everybody that was in trouble or sick, or 
 who had been unkind; for missionaries and the minister 
 and for the Sunday-school teacher; that because of this 
 
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 holy time in the presence of God, an extra benefit might 
 come to them. 
 
 Another helpful plan for the long waits is to repeat 
 verses from the Bible, ones that you love, and think out 
 their meaning — anything that will bring you near in 
 spirit to God. 
 
 With all these things to do, for yourself and for others, 
 these ways of sharing God's life at his table, the time 
 will often seem really short. You will not want to look 
 around and stare at other folks, nor will you be restless 
 nor giggling, and there need be no tears if the service is 
 shared in the spirit of the quiet peace of God's presence. 
 Instead there will be a quiet sweetness of temper and 
 power for the quick overcoming of temptation if others 
 are annoying. You will be nearer God in your thoughts. 
 His power will show in your life. 
 
 It is well worth while to try these plans and to make a 
 habit of having something special that you take to the 
 service for help or understanding or achievement. At 
 first maybe you will get only small results, but as you 
 build up the habit year after year you will find that 
 more and more of the life of God will manifest in and 
 through you. It is a superb spiritual achievement. So 
 do not give up after an effort or two. Others who have 
 practiced it have received results that were like miracles. 
 There is no reason why you should not come to find them 
 too, for "it is God that worketh in you." 
 
 Here are questions that will help you to test your 
 knowledge of this lesson. 
 
 How are the bread and the wine used at the communion 
 symbols of God's life? 
 
 How can you get ready for the communion? 
 
 If next Sunday were communion, what would you 
 choose as a special thing to pray about? 
 
2o6 CITIZEN, JR. 
 
 In what ways can you keep in the spirit of prayer 
 during the long waits? 
 
 Closing 
 
 We have come to the close of the lesson and to the end 
 of our book with its studies in citizenship. Though it 
 seems to be an end, if you have caught the real meaning 
 of the lessons you can see that in a way, you are beginning. 
 You are like a person who has taken a course in short- 
 hand, typewriting, telegraphy, etc. A start has been made. 
 Rules have been learned and practiced a little. What 
 comes now is continued daily practice to become an 
 expert. 
 
 You imderstand, now, more about the diamond of your 
 citizenship, with its many facets. You see how citizen- 
 ship in the home, at school, in the community, nation, 
 church, and world, are essentially one, part of the great 
 citizenship of the good, God's kingdom. You have made 
 a good start in applying what you have learned. From now 
 on your success will depend on how you practice citizen- 
 ship from day to day and year to year as you apply what 
 you have learned. Prayer and the communion will be the 
 greatest helps you can have. 
 
 Like the members of the organization known as the 
 IQng's Daughters and Sons, you will try to Hve your life 
 *Tn His Name.'* And so you will live out the spirit of 
 your sacred oath of citizenship. 
 
 Sacramentum — The Sacred Oath 
 
 "To thee. Master, submitting myself wholly 
 to be and do whatever thou commandest — to thee 
 subject most reUgiously, body and soul, forever." 
 
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