Seeds die and grow
Adapted from Leadership Excellence by Phil Pringle:
When the Statue of Liberty arrived as a gift from the French, no one among the privileged of 1886 were willing to raise the $100,000 to assemble it.
Joe Pulitzer, an immigrant from Hungary, appealed to the little people of the city to undertake the installation of the statue, in his little paper, the New York World. As a result, shoeshine boys, chimney sweeps, machine operators, grocery clerks, grandmothers and schoolchildren came to the rescue. In recognition of their heroism, Pulitzer published the name of every contributor, even little kids who gave a nickel.
One of the contributors was a young Jewish woman named Emma Lazarus [Emma=whole/universal + Lazarus=God will help = Universally, God will help for the whole thing], who wrote a poem The New Colossus for an art exhibition to help raise money for the statue's installation. Emma's poem closed with the following lines:
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
In the end, 121,100 people contributed an average of 83 cents each to erect what has become the most American of all symbols. As a result of his efforts to erect the Statue of Liberty, the circulation of Joe's little paper grew to monumental proportions as well, and Joseph Pulitzer went on to impact the United States of America as few men have ever done.
Praise the Lord!
"Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it." - Luke 13:18-19 KJV
When the Statue of Liberty arrived as a gift from the French, no one among the privileged of 1886 were willing to raise the $100,000 to assemble it.
Joe Pulitzer, an immigrant from Hungary, appealed to the little people of the city to undertake the installation of the statue, in his little paper, the New York World. As a result, shoeshine boys, chimney sweeps, machine operators, grocery clerks, grandmothers and schoolchildren came to the rescue. In recognition of their heroism, Pulitzer published the name of every contributor, even little kids who gave a nickel.
One of the contributors was a young Jewish woman named Emma Lazarus [Emma=whole/universal + Lazarus=God will help = Universally, God will help for the whole thing], who wrote a poem The New Colossus for an art exhibition to help raise money for the statue's installation. Emma's poem closed with the following lines:
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
In the end, 121,100 people contributed an average of 83 cents each to erect what has become the most American of all symbols. As a result of his efforts to erect the Statue of Liberty, the circulation of Joe's little paper grew to monumental proportions as well, and Joseph Pulitzer went on to impact the United States of America as few men have ever done.
Praise the Lord!
"Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it." - Luke 13:18-19 KJV