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Rotary emphasizes the points of agreement and avoids controversial issues.
Rotary thus becomes the common denominator, the sanctuary to which all are welcome.
Is there any valid reason why catholic and protestant, Jew and gentile should not enjoy friendly intercourse?
Where it is done in rotary, catholic priests, Jewish rabbis and protestant ministers sit side by side in happy fellowship at Rotary Club meetings. Even if travels take you to India there you may meet Mohammedans, Hindus and Christians, breaking bread together. Is this not as it should be?
Remember the words: Peace, honor, goodwill toward all men.
To put it readily: Rotary is trying to make the words of Robert Burns come true:
You remember that: The time will come for all of us where man to man shall Brother be for a’that.
Those outside the membership frequently ask the question.
How did it come about? That’s a hard question to answer.
One answer would be that Rotary’s popular appeal is due to the fact that In Rotary men are encouraged to be natural. Just to be themselves. In this world were artificiality so abounds, it is refreshing to meet with groups who are not worshippers of cold meaningless formalities.
Further there is a bit of the boy in every man, and friendly natural intercourse is the best way to bring it out.
I wished it might be your privilege, as it is mine tonight, to look in on this happy throng of big strong men from occident and orient from the frozen north and from down beneath the equator.
Many of them have their wives with them and the faces of all our radiance with smiles as they clasped each others’ hands. If you were here I believe that you would agree with me in my conclusion that the words of the Bard of Ayr were not the expression of an idle dream, that they were indeed prophetic and that the finest conception of human mind the conception of universal goodwill and peace will in God’s good time be realized in very truth.
Rotary in a final analysis is a way of life, of a good, natural, wholesome friendly way of life.
The world is full of potential Rotarians who are not Rotarians in fact.
Many of them are listening to me now.
If you have the love of your fellowmen in your heart my friends, you are potential Rotarians.
Rotary emphasizes the points of agreement and avoids controversial issues.
Rotary thus becomes the common denominator, the sanctuary to which all are welcome.
Is there any valid reason why catholic and protestant, Jew and gentile should not enjoy friendly intercourse?
Where it is done in rotary, catholic priests, Jewish rabbis and protestant ministers sit side by side in happy fellowship at Rotary Club meetings. Even if travels take you to India there you may meet Mohammedans, Hindus and Christians, breaking bread together. Is this not as it should be?
Remember the words: Peace, honor, goodwill toward all men.
To put it readily: Rotary is trying to make the words of Robert Burns come true:
You remember that: The time will come for all of us where man to man shall Brother be for a’that.
Those outside the membership frequently ask the question.
How did it come about? That’s a hard question to answer.
One answer would be that Rotary’s popular appeal is due to the fact that In Rotary men are encouraged to be natural. Just to be themselves. In this world were artificiality so abounds, it is refreshing to meet with groups who are not worshippers of cold meaningless formalities.
Further there is a bit of the boy in every man, and friendly natural intercourse is the best way to bring it out.
I wished it might be your privilege, as it is mine tonight, to look in on this happy throng of big strong men from occident and orient from the frozen north and from down beneath the equator.
Many of them have their wives with them and the faces of all our radiance with smiles as they clasped each others’ hands. If you were here I believe that you would agree with me in my conclusion that the words of the Bard of Ayr were not the expression of an idle dream, that they were indeed prophetic and that the finest conception of human mind the conception of universal goodwill and peace will in God’s good time be realized in very truth.
Rotary in a final analysis is a way of life, of a good, natural, wholesome friendly way of life.
The world is full of potential Rotarians who are not Rotarians in fact.
Many of them are listening to me now.
If you have the love of your fellowmen in your heart my friends, you are potential Rotarians.
