By Mary B. Welch
Booker Washington said in
his autobiography that the world
wants, and
wants tremendous-
ly, "men and women who can
do common things uncommonly
well."
The fact that he believes
this thoroughly, and that his life
has been consistent with his be-
lief, has resulted in that kind
of character which has
made
him the leader of his race.
So Moses believed, and
so he lived, as he tended Jethro!s
sheep for
forty years in the
wilderness. Forty years of do-
ing common things uncom-
monly well opened his eyes
to the fire that burned and
yet did not
consume, and
fitted him to be chosen by God
as the deliverer of Israel.
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Mary B. Welch
