MEDITATIONS

By B. C. MONEY

Listening over the radio recently we heard two ladies singing, “Precious Memories.”

We remember the first time we ever heard that song.   Mr. and Mrs. Martin Mackie and his two young daughters sang it at Union Grove and the words and melody have lingered in my memory as I thought it was the most beautiful song I ever heard and have always wished I could hear them sing it again.

As we think of things that are happening and conditions that have changed so much and thinking of the many hundred graduates that have finished high school and college that had been associated together and formed friendships and ties, many of which will last through life.   But the separation time has come and with fond memories they will each go their way into the religious and business world to give the world their best

Yes, how fortunate children and young people are to have such conveniences and comfortable conditions.   Lovely school buildings, good transportation to and from school and training that fit and qualify them for the duties of life in the business and religious world and as they make their way in life it is hoped that they may make the world a better place to live in by eliminating wars, strikes and many of the evils that now exist.

When we were a child, children had to walk sometimes two or three miles over a dirt, muddy and sometimes snowy roads to a log house school building with slab benches for seats, open fire place for heat and sometimes cracks in the wall for light. Truly progress has been made.