ORIGINAL WRITINGS OF ETHEL T. WEAD MICK

Selected by Tomilynn E. Willits McManus, PHQ, PSG
Curator, International Center for Job's Daughters

Mrs. Ethel T. Wead Mick and her husband, Dr. William Henry Mick, published a collection of original writings in a small volume entitled, Suggestive Ideas, and many of her poems included on the Curator website are from that source.  The Preface to Suggestive Ideas states:  “Suggestive Ideas are a collection of thoughts to our Buds of Promise, as it may prove a help or hope for the general success” and includes the following untitled poem:
                                              

  Help with hope
Given here and there
Aides to make life
Happier everywhere.
                                    E.T.W.M.

 

CHRISTMAS LETTER, 1921

(Mrs. Mick’s 1921 Christmas Letter appeared on page 25
of the First Annual Report, Omaha, Nebraska, 1921.) 

                                                                                    December 16th, 1921

Dear Job’s Daughters and Guardians:

How dear the name of Job’s Daughters should be to every Mason and their families.
Each Bethel is a building monument, exemplifying the brotherly love we strive to perfect:
In making the lives of others worth living do we find the secret of happiness.

The thread of Job’s Daughters is spun.
Our three aims are centered in one.
Love winds ever through and through
In homely strength – with something to do.
The second gleams like Bethlehem’s Star above,
A radiant thread – something to love.
The third entwines them all in power –
Something to hope for hour by hour;
   Thus, happiness in part
Lies within the reach of every heart.

            With Sincere Christmas Greetings and Happy New Year, I am,

                                                                        Cordially and Fraternally,
                                                                                    MRS. ETHEL T. MICK

A WISH FOR JOB'S DAUGHTERS

(This poem has appeared in several publications, including Suggestive Ideas, and the 1961 Proceedings of the Supreme Guardian Council)

If you wish the best for Job’s Daughters,
Let us see what we can do.
First set watch upon our actions;
Keep them always straight and true.

Rid your mind of selfish motives,
Let our thoughts be clean and high.
We can make a perfect Eden
Of our Bethels, if we try.

Do we wish our Daughters happy?
Then remember day by day
Just to scatter seeds of kindness
As we pass along the way.

For we know not if we’ll ever
Come along this way again,
So let’s pledge renewed allegiance
To our Bethel and our friends.

Do we wish our Daughters wiser?
Well, suppose we make a start
By accumulating wisdom
In the scrapbook of our hearts.

Do not waste one page on folly,
Live to learn and learn to live.
If we want to share our knowledge
We must get ’ere we can give.

 

JOB’S DAUGHTERS IDEAL
(This poem was published in Suggestive Ideas.)

One little kind act given every day,
When at school or at our play;
Some talent I possessed perhaps a song
Or even a smile to cheer, when things go wrong;
Yet it may prove so much to me and you.
Now let us not forget our kind act if you run a mile,
Because doing kindness causes us to be greater all the while;
It gives joy to us, and radiates courage too
This little kind act was our Maker’s plan.
That thought is a pleasure along the numerous epochs as we go,
Forgetting not the Faith Hope and Charity

PRAYER

(Mrs. Ethel T. Wead Mick wrote this prayer in 1938 and gave it at the 18th meeting
of the Supreme Guardian Council, Washington, D.C.)

Heavenly Father, we have followed Thee
Throughout this changeable year
Kindly progress, light on our pathway
Bringing comfort with cheer.

May the members that are added
To Job's Daughters' encircled chain
Grow stronger in friendship's links
And forever remain.

May the wisdom we have given,
Hours our guardians have spent
Reflect wholesomeness in our Daughters,
Bringing peace with content.

May the Great God of Time
Whose undying love we all know
Observe with guidance
Wherever Job's Daughters go.

These things we all ask in Thy name.

Amen.

WHAT MAKETH A BETHEL

(Excerpt from a poem by Mrs. Mick published in Suggestive Ideas,
a collection of original writings by Mrs. Mick, with an introduction by her husband.)

There is something that maketh a Bethel
Out of four walls, ceremony, and prayer.
A something that seeth a garden
In these little Buds of Promise rare.

That tuneth Job's Daughers heart to a purpose
And maketh all hearts as one;
That smiles when the sky is gray
And smiles when the sky is blue.

Without it no garden hath fragrance
Though it hold the wide world's bloom,
Without it a palace is a prison
With cells for banqueting rooms.

This something, that halloweth sorrow
And taketh the sting from care.
This something that maketh a Bethel
Is forbearance, patience and prayer.

WHY JOIN JOB'S DAUGHTERS?

(Excerpt from a promotional message by Ethel T. Wead Mick, printed
in the 1922 Annual Proceedings of the Supreme Guardian Council.)

Because it is a Fraternal Order? - Not Altogether. There is more.
Right companionship, to be able to know yourself by knowing others.
Assisting the Daughters in selecting the correct literature and music.
Mingling together of girls of different aims and ambitions, inspires one to higher ideals.
In union there is strength.
The ability to express one's self in public.
The discovery of unknown talents and traits.
Anticipating the wants of others, laying aside self and rendering service that makes the world better for ourselves and others

 

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