THE COMMUNITY CENTER MOVEMENT
every fundamental. It is something spiritually deeper than these things that are translatable into words, something that may be realized but never comprehended by the finite mind. In Hopedale, Mass., there was an ugly mill pond, a bare, bulrush shored, mucky stretch of bog and water that nestled up close to the heart of the town. But the community organized, and someone saw the possibilities of that dingy morass. The lakelet was drained, dead trees removed, bouldors blasted, and God's own trees and flowers were given a chance to grow in their own way. The sermon of the mill pond and the spiritual conception back of every sincerely planned Community Movement is expressed in one sentence at the end of the story of the transformed mill pond; it is this: "The whole morale of the village is raised and transfigured by Hopedale's glorified mill pond."
Existing Organizations.—However glorious the future of the Community Movement may be the debt it owes to the work of previously existing organizations will never be forgotten, nor will any dazzling success of the future
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