So here we have the principle of the "Open window." Let us see what a great principle it is in the whole of human life in all its ramifications. You can never succeed in anything, you can never keep yourself from being dragged down from a higher to a lower level, if you forget the principle of the open window. There is the business world. It seems very far from Daniel over there in the court. of Babylon. But it is not. There is something divine in.business. If there was not God would not have given us to do. There is a saying in Lancashire to this effect, "From clogs to clogs in three generations." It means that a poor but clever workman gets on and builds a mill and a flourishing, business: his son inherits an just keeps it going while the son's son, brought up in Juxury, sees it fail. Why does this happen'so often as it does all the world over! Because the founder of the firm was. always at his window open to the world of invention and commerce: he watched the movements of trade: he was always looking beyond his mill while he was in the mill and that kept: the mill prosperous. The next two generations get slack; they have money; they spend time on pleasure that ought to be given to the business. Their. machinery gets old-fashioned, because they don't look out for new machines and methods. They neglect the great world of commerce and invention, and live in their own narrow limits and they fail. It is the want of the open window that brings them to. ruin. This is true all round.
A medical man on this coast ence told me that in the furlough he had just enjoyed he had spent three months of it in a famous medical school and in a hospital. That does not look much ike a holiday, does it? Mut he was a wise man. It was another case of the open window.'' The world of medicine is a bigger one' than can be seen in its latest' achievements out here.* He wanted to make himself an open window to the latest methods and kinds of treatment. The medical school and the hospital were an "open window" to the greater and more advanced! world of medicine. He was a wise man. It is the same with al] kinds of students. They are abreast of the time when they leave College, " But in the course of years they drop behind because they do not keep up their studies. and reading, and then
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