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The Jain Graduates Association.
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(8) To seek political rights for the Jains from the Government, to discuss all the political questions affecting the Jains and ultimately to try to make this institution a a political one.
(9) To celebrate annisersary days of our premier vaints, Rishies and workers. This body should be got registered under the Government Act XXI of 1860.
In order to regulate our proceedings in accordance with the aforesaid aims each member of the association should realize that it has in it elements of development and progress which cannot but foreshadow a hopeful future to the eye of hope and faith. He should have sense of duty and understand his responsibility. If this he done, he is sure to work honestly however, in his humble way and to see that success is achieved.
The world moves along not merely by the gigantic shoves of its here workers, but by the aggregate tiny pushes of every honest worker. All men may give some tiny push or other and feel that they are doing something for mankind. "
J. R. Green.
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I shall now come to our men of wealth and influence without recourse to whose assistance a great movement is not absolutely positive to flourish.
The cry from all sides is for sacrifice. Sacrifice, no doubt is the one thing needful to make a community or a nation great; but how to stimulate the spirit of sacrifice in a people or especially in rich classes is a very important question. Men, as we see them in these days are so engrossed with their own comforts and conveniences that to ask them to part with these appears to be ridiculous to many. But the fact is nevertheless there that people consent to suffer and part with their possessions for some noble ends. Our community is well known to be charit. able. So it can be expected of the moneyed men in our community that they looking to the importance of such an institution and benefits it is likely to confer on the community as a whole by its aims and objects having been carried out, shall
