Evening High School - Owl Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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110 THE OWL shows whole groups of figures picturing the most noted crimes of England and France, and the Hall of Tableaux showing many parts of English history. We had spent almost an entire day at Madame Tussand's. The shad- ows were growing longer and the figures becoming dim- mer every minute. I realized that this very ineresting day was swiftly coming to a close. Soon we would be out again in one of London's typical fogs and Madame Tussaudis would be but a memory. But wait! Just be- fore we reached the exit, almost before closing time, someone was sitting on a bench fast asleep and snoring. It would be a shame to let him there and have the guards discover him after everything is locked up. I-Iey buddy, Wake up, closing time. After a few shakings with no re- sponse, I was amazed to find that he too was a wax figure with a machine on the inside to do the snoring. Very re- gretfully, I was forced to bring to a close one of the most interesting days of my lifeg and a few years later I regret- ted still more to read of a fire which totally destroyed Madame 'I'ussaud's. S

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112 THE OWL BACCALAUREATE SERMON The Rev. Arrhur H Naugle Saint James Lutheran Church St. Mark 12:80-31 Thou Shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength, and thy neighbor as thyself. We are presented here with a test for character which is not easy to meet. For while our moral stamina un doubtedly is expressed in the aggressive and militant vir- tues with which we tackle life, most of us feel a severe strain on our spiritual quality when life tackles us. He is a great man indeed who is great, not only when he makes his mark upon the World, but when he bears with grace and love the hostile, irritating impact of the world upon him- self. If a man fails here, what a vast number of resent- ments he can collect in a few years. If he allows criticism to irritate, if he cherishes insults, ingratitudes and wrongs he soon finds that his life is little more than a mass of thorns which prick him at every turn. Yet how very many people there are who are continually peeved, miffed, provoked and incensed. Unless we live a life of forgiving love we will soon find ourselves to be as the hitching post which had many nails driven into it. One day a man decided to pull out the nails because they looked so ugly and were dangerous. Alas, each nail left its ugly hole in the dead post. The water and frost soon decayed the post. If those nails had been driven into a living tree and had been removed again, nature would have healed over the marks and the tree would be sound again. Blessed indeed is the man whose life is not filled with ugly scars, who does not col- lect nails of resentment, for his life is a life of love. It seems almost a natural thing to collect grudges, envies and prejudices, but even those who defend it upon the natural basis must admit that Whenever we meet a character that does not indulge in resentments we recog- nize moral greatness. Stanton called Lincoln a low, cun- ning clownflnicknamed him the original gorilla. Lincoln