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On Tuesday night, November 22, Miss Nannie Helen Burroughs, of Washington, D. C., gave an address at the City Auditorium in Atlanta. Miss Burroughs is founder of the National Training School for Women and Girls at Washington, and a prominent educational leader among the members of her race. Her subject was “The Seven Greatest Gifts to the Human Family, and Our Duty to Enrich and Enhance Them.” Besides the two great gifts of the United States to human life and happiness—the con stitution and the songs of the Negro—Miss Burroughs dwelt at length on the seven gifts of life, liberty, learning, labor, love, leisure and laurels. Because of your very existence, you owe your parents and the world itself ,an eter nal and everlasting debt of gratitude which can never be paid in money, and if you're not preparing to live a life of service, you're a disappointment to those sacrificing for you.” “Christian men are organizing mental forces now to fight moral battles that they may have absolute freedom.” “Nature is no respecter of persons and all must dedicate their mind power to the world’s enjoyment.” “Hard work is a thing that the world and society require, and is essential to make a man or a woman.” “America needs to be enriched in sacri fices of love that she may live up to the fine things of which she is capable. Give your life to that end.” “Real leisure with God, that is self-exam ination, is what we need.” “Civilization is a matter of standards. The question of color will fade as mist before the rising sun when civilization is brought to the Christian’s highest level of love, life, and service.”
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Atlanta Campus Mirror
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Thu, Dec 15, 1927
Page 4
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