James Madison University - Bluestone Schoolmaam Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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DDDDDDDDDDDDDD ffi DDDDDDDDDDDDDDl Prayer L ' R GRACK US Heavenly Father, we wait before thee again at the beginning oi another year ' s work, in this place of cherished memories. ilt thou bless our hopes and guide our efforts. We thank thee for youth, for hope, for aspiration ; we thank thee for memories of past happy days, for the strength and cour- age that ciime with congenial association, for the love of friends, tor the smiles ot kindness and courtesy, for words of truth and wisdom. Help us to make our school life rich and sweet, that all future years may thereby he fuller of light and joy. Enable us to appreciate more fully the power and the opportunities of our school lite. Make us sensible of the gifts with which thou hast endowed us, and make us anxious to use them fittingly and effectively. In our speech give us wisdom and self-control; in our judgments give us sympathy and charity, as well a a sense of justice; in our conduct give us an influence that is wholesome and uplifting. We pray thee for the spirit of sympathy and the skill of co-operation, that the resources of the stron g may become the inheritance of the weak, and the hurdens of the faltering max lie lightened by our united power. In all may we reverence thy truth and thy law, that thy smile of blessing may rest upon us. In the name of lesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

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iDDDDDDDDDDDDDPfflDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Reading {From James Moffatt ' s Translation of the Epistle of James) EMEMBER, we teachers will be judged with special strictness. We all make many a slip, but whoever avoids slips of speech is a perfect man; he can bridle the whole of the body as well as the tongue. . . . What a forest is set ablaze by a little spark of fire ! And the tongue is a fire; the tongue proves a very world of mis- chief among our members, staining the whole of the body and setting fire to the round circle of existence with a flame fed by hell. . . . With the tongue we bless the Lord and Father, and with the tongue we curse men made in God ' s likeness; blessing and cursing stream from the same lips! My brothers, this ought not to be. . . . Who among you is wise and learned? Let him show by his good conduct, with the modesty of wisdom, what his deeds are. But if you are cherishing bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on that — and be false to the truth. That is not the wisdom which comes down from above; it is an earthly wisdom, sensuous, devilish ; for wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there disorder reigns and every evil. The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, forbearing, conciliatory, full of mercy and wholesome fruit, unambig- uous, straight-forward ; and the peacemakers who sow in peace reap righteousness. jys

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The Virginia Teachers College Board Mr. Ben W. Mears Eastville, Northampton County Mr. Norman R. Hamilton Portsmouth Mr. W. Clyde Locker Richmond Miss Bell Webb Prince George, Prince George County Mr. H. L. Hooker Stuart, Patrick County Miss J. Catherine Cook Roanoke Hon. George N. Conrad Harrisonburg Mr. Robert O. McIntyre Warrenton Miss Frances Shumate Glenlyn, Giles County Mr. Alfred G. Preston Amsterdam, Botetourt County Col. Richard L. Beale Bowling Green Dr. H. M. DeJarnette Fredericksburg Ex-Officio His Excellency, the Governor of Virginia The Superintendent of Public Instruction