SAYINGS OF THE SAGES - CLARKE

"To educate the heart, one must be willing to go out of
himself, and come into into loving contact with others."

James Freeman Clarke, 1810 - 1888, Writer of many books including "Ten Great Religions," consisting of two volumes, published in l871 and 1883. He advocated woman suffrage which finally happened in 1929 and women were then classified as persons. During the middle ages slavery existed in western Europe, eastern Roman empire and the Muslim world. The Christian church protested against some phases of slavery like selling Christians to non-Christian slaveholders. Church officials and priests were permitted to hold slaves. Slavery was abolished in the British Empire, Europe, and the Western Hemisphere by the end of the l9th century. In Emperor Trajan's time (98-117 A.D.) in Rome, one out of three persons was a slave. No wonder the elite had so much time for fancy bathing.

Thank you James Freeman Clarke for your part in changing the face
of our world by helping promote new measures of caring and love.

Love undertakes a duty with, No thought of personal gain,
Gives understanding words or thoughts, A touch for those in pain.
A measure cannot show its span, Its value knows no bounds,
That lifts man from despair's dark depths, Where freedom can abound.

To keep the channels flowing on, That only stops if we,
Allow beliefs that limit us, To block its flowing free.
Through time and generations new, This golden thread weaves on,
To lend its healing balm to those, Who tune into its song.
Suzie-Q