Article October 24, 1925 Issue

Marching to Music

M. ETHEL WHITCOMB

SOLDIERS have said that during long marches weariness has suddenly given place to strength as the band sounded forth its martial music, and they have marched on unconscious of the body.

Is not our daily activity the "march we have been called to take; and if at times it seems wearisome or long, may it not be that our ears are not attuned to the glorious music of a mighty purpose? The body glows with new health when the tones of selfless service resound through consciousness. It is a help to ask one's self: Am I just marching, or am I marching to music—just doing my work as my duty, or seeing it as a glad opportunity to bless, and claiming inspiration and strength in the doing?

Those who are not finding new and higher ways to accomplish their work are but expressing mere motion, are just dragging their feet instead of marching to the triumphant music of Life. He who allows his work to seem an irksome problem and his thoughts to revolve around it in finite circles is becoming localized and materialized. While he who sees his work in its true relation to humanity identifies his thinking with the spiritual, the universal, the eternal. He it is who joins in the wondrous chorus of world-workers as he marches. He teaches by example; for those who watch him, turn to their work with new gratitude and zeal.

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