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Timebinder, v. 1, Issue 1, 1944

of building one's own Blessed Isle. It may seem to you that I am talking about little, unimportant things; or that I am merely trying to preach a sermon. Believe me, please -- I am trying to show you a Way of Life; one that is very, very real; one that can be lived; one that works far more satisfyingly than you would have believed possible before you had tried it.

Please read this seriously. It is the little, seemingly unimportant things of life that are really the most important things of living, that are really the most important in the building of life that will satisfy you, and will keep you in harmony with your fellow man. The old copy-book maxims, which seem so old-fashioned and out of date to us moderns, especially the younger moderns, with their false ideas of sophistication, are really the fundamentals of the good life. Don't laugh at them; don't shrug them off contemptuously -- study them and ponder them deeply. They are right because they have proven themselves right by that very greatest of all test-standards -- the Test of Time. Had they  not been right and fundamental, they would not have stood up under the generations of youngsters, who, in the egotism of their growing intellectual radicalisms, were wont to laugh at them in scorn. These same laughingly scornful youths, as they take on the intelligence and experience of maturity, find that they were wrong in thus belittling these homey old "saws" -- and thus try to teach [[underline]]their[[end underline]] children, in turn, as their fathers and mothers had tried to teach them. And get laughed at in turn by their own growing children, who think them "old fogeys". It has been thus every generation -- and will probably continue so. But the old maxims still stand -- because they [[underline]]are[[end underline]] fundamentally right and true.

But the point I am stressing to you is this -- the old maxims, having withstood the test of Time, should be made a part of our lives as soon as possible. It behooves us to accept them and acknowledge them for the great truths they are and to make them an integral part of our daily lives. So surely as we do, so surely shall our lives be brighter and happier; more what we want them to be; more what the community expects each individual's life to be.

To get back to my building. Next came the hardest job of all -- being [[underline]]of[[end underline]] the world, and [[underline]]in[[end underline]] the world, and yet living in my own private world. Please don't get the idea that I have withdrawn myself from the things and people about me. Definitely not! I am not -- to the best of my knowledge and belief -- a "recessive", even a mild one. I am a gregarious person, as so many of you know. I have hundreds of friends, and other hundreds of close acquaintances, with whom I love to mingle, play and converse. I take an active part in many things civic, political, and of other natures.

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of building one's own Blessed Isle. It may seem to you that I am talking about little, unimportant things; or that I am merely trying to preach a sermon. Believe me, please -- I am trying to show you a Way of Life; one that is very, very real; one that can be lived; one that works far more satisfyingly than you would have believed possible before you had tried it. Please read this seriously. It is the little, seemingly unimportant things of life that are really the most important things of living, that are really the most important in the building of life that will satisfy you, and will keep you in harmony with your fellow man. The old copy-book maxims, which seem so old-fashioned and out of date to us moderns, especially the younger moderns, with their false ideas of sophistication, are really the fundamentals of the good life. Don't laugh at them; don't shrug them off contemptuously -- study them and ponder them deeply. They are right because they have proven themselves right by that very greatest of all test-standards -- the Test of Time. Had they not been right and fundamental, they would not have stood up under the generations of youngsters, who, in the egotism of their growing intellectual radicalisms, were wont to laugh at them in scorn. These same laughingly scornful youths, as they take on the intelligence and experience of maturity, find that they were wrong in thus belittling these homey old "saws" -- and thus try to teach [[underline]]their[[end underline]] children, in turn, as their fathers and mothers had tried to teach them. And get laughed at in turn by their own growing children, who think them "old fogeys". It has been thus every generation -- and will probably continue so. But the old maxims still stand -- because they [[underline]]are[[end underline]] fundamentally right and true. But the point I am stressing to you is this -- the old maxims, having withstood the test of Time, should be made a part of our lives as soon as possible. It behooves us to accept them and acknowledge them for the great truths they are and to make them an integral part of our daily lives. So surely as we do, so surely shall our lives be brighter and happier; more what we want them to be; more what the community expects each individual's life to be. To get back to my building. Next came the hardest job of all -- being [[underline]]of[[end underline]] the world, and [[underline]]in[[end underline]] the world, and yet living in my own private world. Please don't get the idea that I have withdrawn myself from the things and people about me. Definitely not! I am not -- to the best of my knowledge and belief -- a "recessive", even a mild one. I am a gregarious person, as so many of you know. I have hundreds of friends, and other hundreds of close acquaintances, with whom I love to mingle, play and converse. I take an active part in many things civic, political, and of other natures. 11