St Thomas High School - Thomist Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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------- -- fe rf ' 'l i'1 Bishop Muldoon, As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which is profitable to myself, but to many, that they may be savedfl l Cor. 10-33. To escape the dehumanizing influence of career, to resist the temptation to be- come an impersonal entity in the manage- ment of a highly organized group by exer- cising a genuine and constant considera- tion for the persons affected, must in com- mon honesty be conceded as something more than most leaders have managed to achieve. Not a few of the world's antag- onisms have for their breeding ground an unfortunate impersonality of contact-an impersonality that bespeaks to the aver- age mind the ominous threat of interpos- ing the imaginary line of caste between the executive head of a government or a business and those engaged in the minor agencies. It is hard to escape the convic- tion cherished by many minds, that when most men in executive or administrative positions announce that A line must be drawnf, they have in mind the line be- yond which the' rest of the race must not pass if they seem to remind their leaders that they too are human and therefore, all things else being justly observed, some- what amendable to the conventions of social contact. Everyone will no doubt grant that in the church, where social conscience is quickened by grace and where a vast The Cbzmbmme knowledge of human nature and its needs is acquired by discipleship in the school whose Divine Teacher the people heard gladly because He had compassion on the multitude, there should be a softening of the rigidity which obtains in the secular order where the gesture of fellowship from the superior to the inferior is ordi- narily a mere matter of policy and pose. There is a rather pungent epigram which indicates that f'Human nature is very prevalent. It has the quality of suggest- ing that perhaps something ought to be done about that. Most people believe, too, that if they are to look for any resist- ance to that stubborn fact they may look for it in the person of a churchman like The Right Reverend Bishop Muldoon, whose training and aspirations of service to humanity might be expected to soften some of the asperities in the lives of others. Certainly in the case of an ec- clesiastic, people may justly be expected to hope that the grace of God, a sense of proportion and a noble desire to serve them and- still remain one of them and one with them will exercise a salutary effect upon his character. lf God has vouchsafed him a sense of humor this also is a great asset. Plainly stated the pos- session of such qualities constitutes splen- did equipment-and with equal plainness it may be averred that the absence of them can be no small disaster. llll