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ESTABLISHED 185. -- - - NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1901.
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jUIlVIIoELuEIV 1e
THE 45th ANNUAL 4
NEWBERR'
Largest Graduating Class i
tion-Rev. W. H. Hiller
R. Tillman Deliver Ad
Societies-Commence
Medals, Prizes and
The Board Pass
"'he l1ev. W. II. -Iiler, of IProspcrity,
dellvered the annual tiddress before the
Alumtni A ssociation this year on Tues
day morning. Rev. S. S. I;ahn, of
Jacksonville, Fla., had been chosen, hut
on account of the fire which destroyed
his home some time ago, was prevented.
Mr. Hiller was introduced by Mr.
A. 0. Matthews, president of the asso
elation, and after a few introductory
remarks Mr. Hiller spoke as follows:
ALUMNI ADDRESS.
"The Sovereignty of Mind as Re
lated to the higher Life."
The greatest gift of divinity to hu
manity Is the incarnation of a master
spirit. The sovereign will rules in the
affairs of men by proxy. Jehovah is
represcated in the world by superior
beings, as the archangels do his spe
cial bidding In the unseen realm. The
God-marked man is the atlas of the ages
bearing a lost world back to its Maker.
The truth-ladened voice of the proph
ets, with over increasing force, is pene
trating the chaos of ignorance and vice
of earth making it rich in the hopo of
a better and higher life.
The orator, with soul aflame with
divine flre, speaks from thoughts that
breathe in words that burn, multi
tudes hang upon his utterances, and
men are made to feel, dctcrmine, act!
The philosopher teaches, and the race
sits as children at his feet. The hero
spurns death and converts the simper
Ing coward into a martyr. The poet
touches his harp, and nations stand en
tranced. These all, with a heavenly
mission. Lights among the breakers
on life's stormy sea! Sentinels stand
ing between the then and the future!
The mountain pocks of human history;
the sure guides of mortal destiny. The
sway of the monarch's scepter, the
power of the king's command are fee
ble things compared with . the soul
power of these demigods, who reign
supreme in the march of human pro
gress. Thus then, how inexhaustable,
the resources of this treasury of sixty
ceuturical What a rich legacy is our
Inheritance! What an age has dawned
upon us! The supreme hour for ad
vancement has struck. The materials
are at hand with which to transform the
world into a paradise of God! Touched
by the spirit of the ago, the universal
heart exclaims:
"We are living, we are dwelling,
In a grand and awful time;
In an age, on ages telling,
To be living is sublime."
It Is interesting to notice some of the
chief characteristics of great men by
whIch we may explaIn theIr influence
on civIlIzatIon. TIhey never dIe. They
obliterate time and space. They be
long to every and all ages. They can
not deserve credit. They must be great.
They do not intendl It. They are hum
ble; they are simple. Indifferent alike
to condition, circumstance, position,
climate. They live in the present; In
deed to them there Is no past, no fu
ture. Each day is infInite. They "can
crowd eternity into an hour, or stretch
an hour to eternity."
Though d welling In mortal form, thy
live immortal in our very midst.
Though thIs poor vision cannot see,
yet we feel them, we think them.
Their soul's estates make us
Owners of the sphere,
"Of the stary world, the solar year,
Of Ceasar's hand and Plato's brain,
Of Lord Christ's heart and Shakc
speare's brain."
Thcse great souls reveal the race at
Its best. - Like flowers, love and music,
.they appeal to what is noblest, purest
and greatest in the soul. They are
above all things true to themselves
hence cannot be falso to their fellows.
Indeed they are truth.
Plato In his p)assion for the science
-of being was representative of Oriental
thought; in his love of lines, limita
tions, defluitIons and explanations, he
is all that is great In Occidental cul
ture. This duality in him, makes him
modern, complete. 1For 2,200 years the
supreme master of thought. We appre
eiate assimilatestruth in the concrete.
This makes hero worshipers of us all.
Truth in tho abstract is too far removed
Sfrom the heart to warm it Into life and
activity. Truth, there was in hoathen
dom. It had dreams of divinity and
Immortality; of responsibility to a su
* perlor being and this fnith found ex
pression and'exempliflcation in civic
virtue. But it took 88 centuries to
produce Socrates and Plato; men with
*surer convictions on these questions
of dternal interest. With callous
abandon to fate: with serene cntn..
0MMENCEMENT OF
(COLLEGE.
rn the History of the Institu
and Senator Benjamin
dresses, to Alumni and
ment Day Exercises.
Diplomas Awarded.
es a Resolution.
plation of death, these with Sophocles,
(u, of Athens, taulht the itomans
how t (ie. llear the Itomian confes
sions by 1lartius:
"This admirable duke, Valerius,
With his d isdain of fortune and of death,
Captived himsolf, has captivated me,
And though my arm has taken his body
here,
Ills soul has subjugated A1artius' soul;
ly lomulus, he Is all soul, T think;
lio bath no flesh, and spirit cannot be
gyved;
Then we have vanquished nothing; he
is free,
And Alaetios walks now in captivity.''
When paganism had brought forth
its perfect fruit, th- fullness of time
had corie. There had been conflict,
sharp and grand among the elect of the
Most Iigh, with error, ignorance,
superstition and vice. Sinai had thun
dered with voico more terrible than
Delphi. The vice-gerents of high
heaven in that most wonderful Theoc
racy had failed to unveil truth in all of
her pristine beauty. Moses made mis
takes; Abraham erred; David griev
ously sinned and grievously bore it.
But out of the chaotic darikness, there
flamed forth a light divine. The 40
centuries had not rolled on gathering
strength in vain. The truth is incar
nnte at last and walks among men.
''he center of light! The focus of the
ages! the dream of human historyt
wisdom from eternity revealed, daz
zling the world with its brilliancy!
the source of being disclosed! Nature
touched as by magic and its hidden
secrets brought to light! The choir
invisible breaks forth in symphonies
divine and hymn the praises of the
matchless one. The wisdom of the
ages gracefully al.proachcs and lays
its richest trophier at the Nazarene's
feet. The learning of the past is silent
when He speaks. The storm at sea is
hushed as a babe In its mother's arm,
at the majestic command of His voice.
The conscious waters see its Lord and
blush.
He teaches men not only how to die,
but to live forever. Ho unlocks the
secret chambers of the soul and sets the
captived spirit free. But alas His fate!
More criminal we than Antony. We
who take part in His death and re
ceive the benefit of His dying.
Though far removed from master
minds, yet there is correspondence be
tween us and them. As all life responds
to the vivifying influence of tibe sun's
rays,so we from our inmost being to these
master spirits. There Is no clear line
of demarcation between us and r,hemn.
As twilight impercep)tibly passes Into
nighlt, so our lives into theirs. Corres
p)ondence universal; action and reaction
If we empty here, we must condemn
there. An inevitable dualism bisects
all life so that each thing is a half,
and suggests another tihing to make it
whole; as spirit, matter; man, woman,
subjective, objective, in, out, upper,
under, motion, rest., yea, nay.
H-ore we finid nature most hopeful and
econonmical. Lower life conspiring, we
see In this correspondence between ge
nius and mediocrity fhie redemption of
the race. In the light of this truth
coming from the Eternal One, thread
ing human events with the golden chain
of promise:
There Is no great, no small,
To the Soul that maketh all
And when it cometh,,ali things are,
And it cometh everywhere.
There Is one mind common to all in
dividual men. Every man is nn inlet
to the same, and all of the same. He
that is once admitted to the right of
reason, Is made a freeman of the whole
estate. What Plato has thought, he
may think; what a saint has felt, he
may feel; what at any time has befal
len any man, he can understand. Who
hath access to this universal mind, is a
partytto all that Is, or can be done, for
this is the only and sovereign agent.
The heaven born leader speaks in words
burning with celestial fire, consuming
the dross of human nature, ind the
heart universal responds. Every groat
reform; every advancement; every op
p)och-making event in the world has
been the result of the call of the master
mind, answered by its obedient sub
jects. When groat necessary truths
are uttered by representative men, we
arc astonished at our own stupidity.
However, great the thought, there is
room in every rational Soul to receive
and assimilate it. Our capacity for
suffering is immense. We endure the
burdens of a wrecked world in silence
for generational The storm gathers
with the friction engendered by human
milsoryl Then leaps from the soul of a
divinity apnointed lader the nnlts of
., ~ ~ ~ ~ EII .. . . ....;J. i. g LII U ILitl 11Ut
the heart of the burdened masses. The
fountains of soul aro broken up and
shaped into ia uniform m11ass with an
irresist ille purpose. The outcome is
inevitable. Mun is freed from the thral
lon of cruelty and injustice.
Men will llot make brick without
straw always, nor bend their backs
supinely to the rod of tho tyrant. A
Moses shall arise, an Aaron shall come
to lead them agiiist their foes to vic
tory into a land flowing with milk and
and honey. U nder the guidanco of
such peerless elders, the walls of the
mightiest strongholds of evil shall
crumble to inst, the sea of opposition
shall roll back its waves, a divlt4e light
retected from the skies shall direct the
advance, darkness and confusion shall
cover the rctreat., the giant,s of wrong
shall d1isprrs e as miist before the ad
vancing host.
The progress of civil liberty among
the English people is both interesting
and instruct ive in this conlnection.
For almost a t,housand years there
was in the Inother country conflict with
tyrany. Wrongs grievous, cried to
high heaven for vengeance. Mean wh ilc
popular government was gaining slow
ly, but surely, foundations deep and
broal By that peculiar English trait
of never yielding a liberty once grant
ed, they have advanced from abso
lute, to constitutional monarchy. The
final battle for freedom was won when
Cromwell beheaded Charles and set up
the people as Supreme power of the
realm.
Taxation without representation
forged the American mind into (le
termined opposition to English tyr
any, scorning British concessions, de
manded free government. The ex
treme needs of the hour yield
to the world that prince of mcen,
"The father of his country." How this
young nation followed this peerless
chieftain with nightly blade to com
plete victory! But there was lurking
in the constitution of the new nation
two ideas destined to deadly conflict.
Federalism and Republicanism were to
meet in fierce combat In the public
arena. Again are we saved by a great
mal.
Hear the matchless eloquence of the
hero of the moment; like a god in pain.
Mighty words, grand purpose! The
destiny of the nation flixed for all time.
The nation is his monument. With
broader views of life and duty; with a
common spirit of brotherhood; with the
national heart in sympathy with bleed
ing humanity at our doors, the nation
rose as one man to give oppression the
greatest rebuke of modern times. The
pearl of the Antilles is free. The world
is taught a lesson in love never before
known. How the circumstance has
united the American peoplel What
opportunities as a world power have
thus been opened up to usl Old glory
waving her folds of freedom to every
clime; a potent factor in commanding
the peace of the world!
But let us consider that true great
ness can only end in virtue; in individ
ual character; and full of hope learn a
lesson in character-building from the
little mariner of the briny deep.
"This is the ship of pearl, which poets
feIgn
Sails the unshadowed main,
The venturous bark that flings
On the sweet Bummer wind its purpled
wvinags
In gulfs enchanted, when the stroen sings
And coral reefs lie bare,
When the cold sea-maids rise to sun
their streaming hair.
Its wvebs of living gauze no more unfurl;
Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
A nd every chambered cell,
WVhere Its dim dreaming life was wvont
to dwell,
As the frail tenant shaped his growing
shell,
Before thee lies revealed,
Tts Irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt
unsealed!
Year af ter year beheld tile slent toil
TIhat spreadi( hiis lustrous coil;
Still as the spiral grew,
lie left the p)ast year's dwelling for th(
new,
Stole with soft step its shining arch
way then,
Bu111ltI p Its 1(do door,
Stretched in is last found home, and
knew the old no more.
Child of the wvandering sea,
Cast from hecr lap forlorn;
From thy dead lips a clearer note is
born,
Than ever Trion blew from wvreathed
horn!
WIlile on mine car It rings,
Then the deep caves of thought I hoeax
a voice that sings:
Build thee more stately mansions, C
my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temp)le, nobler thlan the
last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome
more vast,
Till thou at lengt.h art free,
Leaving thine out-grown shell by life'c
unresting sea! 'a s
Other building makes life a hug4
calamity. The reformation of the 10th
century set free the man from political
and religious slavery. Broke down th<~
barriers between the man and th<
masses. The past was obliterated. The
illumination enthroned reason. Th<
discovery of the 18th century was man
Conscious of his power in society thi
nobility and clergy as constituted au
thority was d,stroyed The ea
L1uuuu toe norones ofi anma;nn,y -v
olutioi. Ilcaven with its saving faith
was swept away! The reign of terror
struck the tleath blow to absolute t.y
ratnny. The middle class grasped the
leadershilp. With this shift of powe'r
and respontsili ty atnle a new ciiscov
cry. The philosopliers of this class
brought the awful conviction that nat
ter is Gol! The ltistory of the I0th
century Is but the recosd of the devel
opmlent of this i<lea. The individual
alive with the weight of his powers has
exercised them. lie has ransacked the
world of matter to explore and harness
its utility! Ile has swept the heaveis
with his eye of science to materialize
its celestial treaiures! The marvelons
advance of science and invention has
enthroned materialism. Vhc'nce the ma
terial uitiverse? 'll tinstwer is iinatter.
V Ienc. inaan and wi itlber? 'l'he answer
is matter. I)ead, senscless natter.
I'trsistelt in the faith in Imat.ter, and
the 20,h centnry will yieldt a world rev
olution staiggcring to reasoi and moral
instinet. .D>estroy belief in the over
soul and you strike dead morality at
sulelring humnanity's feet. Dlestroy
conscience and the moral nature ard
society i: chaos and ruin. There tun,L
be reaction. 'l'he materials are at
hand with which to regenerate the rac'.
The new idea of brotherhood must grow
into a powerful civilizing agent. The
stewardship of wealth must realize its
obligations to the masses and hush the
cries of millions for bread. The uni
versal conflict sharp and stern bet,ween
organized capital and laho' must force
the level of mutual interest. I'opuliar
education miist prepare the soul. Lib
eral culture must bring forth master
spirits In hatrnony with the sovereign
will. Then shall be made with the
ruling middle class and the masses an
everlasting peace. Then sliall the
sovereign mind rule a kingdom of the
higher life.
'1'he alumni association met, iiimedi
ately after the speech and the follow
ing officers were elected: A. 0. Mat
thews, president: A. J. Bowers, secre
tary; W. K. Sligh, treasurer.
P'rof. W. K. Sligh was chosen as
speaker for the next annual address
and J. W. Strickland, Esq., of Wal
lialla as alternate.
TIE LITEriARY Ai)itESS
The address to the literary socio
ties was delivore,4 Tuesday evening
by Senator B. It. Tillman. We give
herewith a full text of the address.
Senator Tillman was introduced by
Associate Justice Y. J. Pope as fol
lows:
MR. POPE's INTRODUcTION.
Ladies and Gentlemen: I esteem
it a privilege to appear boforo such
an audience. This is a happy week
to us all, the Commencement week
of our college. You were delighted on
Sunday when you heard the magnif
icent baccalaureate sermon by Dr.
Voigt, the pastor of St. Paul's,
Wilmington. His lessons sank d0p
into the hearts of hij hearors. And
that night Dr. Watson pleased ev
ery one with his Inagnificont sermon.
Then on Monday night whou our
young men in all the glory of intel
lectuality stood up before an and
ience almost as large as this and do
livered speeches of which we were
all proud. And then today whoa
the alumni orator charmed all wh1o
beard him. I say this is a gala
week for Newborry. And ton ight
we meet in order to hear the oration
(101ivored before the literary societies
of Newberry College. Trho gentle
man they have selected as the orator
is no stranger in South Carolina,
nay, he is no stranger in America.
He deserves all he has received and
more. He is a true man and a pa
triot. He loves his people and en
deavors in every wvay lhe can to serve
them. And it (delights me on this
occasion to see this magnificent aud-.
ionce of the friends of Newborry
College come out to hear words
ringing wvords--from this true son
of his native State. I have said this
much in regard to him. I will not
say more. I prefer to lot him speak
for himself as lhe has always hereto
fore done. I have the honor, ladies
and gentlemen, of presenting to you
Ion this occasion Senator Benjamiin
Ryan Tillman.
sENATOR TI'LLMAN's ADREss.
Mr. President, Ladies and Glen
tlemon: I esteem it a high honor
and I assure you it affords me pleas
ure to greet so inany of those who
represent the beauty and chivalry of
Newberry, of Lexington and of Sa
luda counties. I have appeared ini
Newvborry bolero, several timos, and
I have add'dssed audiences here
larger than this. But these audiences
were comp)osed1 exclusively men,
and I have never before had the op.
portunity to look in the faces of the
fair daughters of this grand old
county. And I assure you, ladies,
young and old, that it is wah pecu
liar gratification that I appear be
fore you tonight. I have always
shunned and tried to make excuses
and uniformly declined to accept in
vitations of this character. *I have
-lbeenl invited by colleges, or to go to
colleges, outside of South Carolinn
doavored as far as .1 could to got away
from n addiross of this kind for the
reason that ithe wold literary carries
with it a Im)eatm11g whicht involves a
kind of spoclh or address that Iy
training lit not litted mo for. My
drill ias at Speaker ials loeI inl d01)ato
on tho hustiigs whero thoro worn
a1)als to pass ion, to patriot [im, to
fool ig,it as much as to reason. To
coot) beforo an tudienlco liko this
involvts somthoting of inl obligation
to iudilge in it lino of thought that
is 11101o olovatiii g, loo rot fined, molure
polished, moro intellectual11, possibly.
And while I do not )rotond to say
or to acknowledge tho accusation
which has boon muado against mle to
ho truo, (hat I am11 lacking ini that,
knowlodgo of literatturo and of histo
ry which would otiablo m11o to pro
1)aro it resoibly douet aIdross; it
would inlvolvo onl my part. tho writ
ing out of such a spoech, and the
e11donvoor to commit it. to mem1ory',
somotlhing I can not do. To under
titko to get up before an audionco of
uniig mn)n and youtg women, for
this itudinico is mostly composod of
young men and young womei, aund
read a s1)ooch, howovor polished or
eloqluont or philoso)hicitl, vouhl
miean111 that you would fool bored and
tired hoforo I. got half through and
you would ho sorry that I over ho
gan it. Therofore, in ect0)ting this
inlvitation----and by tho way, this
kind of invitations cauo 8) thick and
fast that I became exceOodigly
alarmed. Nowherry'.4 cam1o inl first
and I acce)ted it first. 'Ihon Clem
sol and Erskine, and sovoral others,
and thoro seonmt'd to ho i coispirIcy
along th routo of (to Columbia and
Greellvillo railroad to see whether I.
did have anly culture or not, and al
ready; I amll booked for another
speechl Friday at Clemson. But I
have had to do with education somo
what in South Carolina. I have al
ways been deoply concerned about
tho educational interests of t ho
State, and havo always dono all I
could to help the cause of education.
But. I confoss that 1 have boon Horo
ly perplexed in my own mind its to
how 1 wits going to mako two l)ee-lt
os without nlly sorious preparation
on two similar occasions and not re
peat, in part it least. I had lenough
ammninition) and havo enough amimini
tion now in the way of powdor and
ball to load a doublo barrolled gun,
but I declaro to you I have not boon
able to formulate them into two car
tridges. Thorofore, I aml hero at
your mercy, Or rather you are at my
mercy, thaik God, and I will have
to ask you to boar with me while I
give you a few iteits that have como
to mo as matters of experience and
obsorvation ill regard to education,
life in general, and all that kind of
thing.
The arena ill which I have boon
working for t.lo last six years, the
United States Soniate, iH 0110 where
there is so much talk, such a porl)et
ual flow of talk, that the veriest
glutton on spooch making who ever
lived or died( would become satedi
with such thtings. 1 used( to love to
make speechcs and whbon thte condi
lions are of tiho kind with wvhich I
am familiar, whenoi I cani got out in
the openf and( Iight, so to speak, I
enjoy mallkinIg a speech occasionally
now, but1 1 (declatro I do not like the
idea of proaThing a sormton. I htave
110 subiject tonlighit. Thlorofore', 1
leave eachl one of you to interpret
and try to thiitk out for hliumself when
110 gets home, what topic I tried to
discuss. I am just going to 810o11
around, so to spoak.
The literary socioties are to hoe con
gratulated, andit the students of New
boerry College are to ho COn gratulated,
upon the flourishing condition ill
which t,hat institution appears to bo0.
Your graduatiing class thtis year is
larger titan any you have ever sent
forth. Tho)(so yountg m111n are going
out into thle world to begin life for
thomnsolvos, after careful p)reparation
at the hands of this faculty. No
doubt thoso young motn and ladies,
for I b)ehovo) you htavo ladies in the
class, feel when Itey get their dliplo.
mtas in the miorinig thait they will
have a precious cortificato or evidenco
of a certain cuirriculum through wih ich
they have passed(, of a certain amounit
of p)rep)aration for the battle of life,
through whtich they have gone. Of
what value is thtat diploma to them?
Howv far hii 5 it succoe(dod, or how far
has your p)rep)aration suicooded in
preparing thtem to become useful
men and women'? TIhat dep)end(s en
tirely on them. Thieir teachers havc
donoe thteir best, and tile fact that
they have hadl the tenacity of pur~
pose to 1)0ld out to the end1 antd to go
through the mental st raini necessary
to obtain these diplomnas, indicates ai
rallier high order of manhood. Thet
statistics of education show that o;
those wvho enter college in tihe fresh
man year, not more tharn 25 to 4(
per cent. under the most favorabki
conditions, ever hold out to the sonios
year. They drop by the wayside be
cause thoere is a large per cent. o
human brains that connot undlnrg
tho continuod strain usually nloces
nary, ospeciaily ini 11a1tthemall1ttion, ti
obt 1inl t1( i)ilomla. Tie11 t1h nlixi:f,
on the pit of tho young to outei
upon the .rena of lifo is so groat
coule)d vitlh ntessities ilmlpsod ;)
)ovorty andi other a verso condit ions
thoso stmltH tilrof) by lho w idt
and t graduating class of thirty ou
of lifty-four is a record that I havl
novr heard elquatlled iii SouLIti Caro
linil, and I doubllt if it his ever bon
eqlualled atnywhoro elso.
I asked youl a momeont agro hov
much 1)reimratrion, or rather wha
success WOld go with th owuor
shi) of i di)lolla, and said it. do
pontldtl On you. I low muuth do you
kntow 1' 1 beliovo wo niotild ask, hiov
11u1CI don't. Vol kI OW, or how Inlueh
is thoro you do no1 know. ily own
oxpe0riolleo as at shuillnt taught, m<
this, thaitt tho objoet of edut011ionl, the
primary pillrpose of it. is to train the
mind, to strongthen th reasonin
power, to bring ibOut a Condition o1
m1ontial (lovelopmlenut tlitt will olnabho
tho student to r-eason cloarly an,d t<
dhiTorontilato botweenl truth atnd falso11
loo<, to discover for yours0lves viat
is right. and what is wrong. Aside
from theo usual1 amount of mat.homa
ties or itithmtitc involved in tht
ordinary ifiairs of lifo, aidoit(1 fron
tho0 amo11n11t of knowloI;go of E'nglish
necessary to read anud writo anl intol.
ligont lotter, asido from at fow fun
damotia facts ill s0i0 Ct) and p1hy11 ics,
the aiverage man11 or' w1om1an who does
not follow u1P th investigation
further after they leave colloge, ill it
year, or two or three or live years,
you becomuo unable to e1.ptrato the
collego graditat1)s from thoso wht
nover wont to collogo it. aill. You
iro not. ab)lo to dilf'orelltiato hotwoon
th graduato a(d man who nVer
went into a collego at all. 'ho lean11.
ing, the book loarning, or that, paitrt
of the curriculunl which has boon fol
lowed and which hats not, boon uso<l
afterwards, soon grows ruslty, oort
hocuimes encrusted with forgot fulnoss,
TIho boy losesH that that, ho does not
continuo to Uso. But tho 1n ha1 l1ts
boon trained, tho drill of tho reason
ing p)owor hasH boon such 1ha1, thore
is it growth, and tho young matn may
continut to grow and expand if thore
is at healthy ollfort along rattionall linlon
to improve the undorot tlding. But
I havo known collego gradlutetO wh<
after they loft school felt that th
woro finishod. It had booen hard and
they had h1ad at desp)orato strugglo t<
Winl thloir diplomas andt felt, that, the
timo had como for fun an d frolic
Sad to say, that, it is often tih caso.
'I'e majority drop back into the ordi
nlry overy.(lily lifo an1d loso that. grail
upon1 lhoso tools with which thoy havo
boon furnished by their training. Thyo
drop t.ho tools. As som wiSO 111 mi
ini the piat declatred tht the child
is the father to thl a1nl, so til
Htudont is oiither till) father of th
man11 who will malko hill mark ill
the world or ho drops back among
the children who have llove;
boon studont:;. Wly, those yolnl;
111011 an(d womeoil iro juxt, preptrol
to hotgini the stud(y of anything
wh'liih thy haUve b)o0n stuldyinlg.
say3 tis adisodxltly, and11 I say it fronl
my1 ownl expienOIco. 1 Ita asl goo<
a1 .i .atinl clar11 of my ago as yoi
0can 11ind ini tilt Staitt, and1( totday witi
tile exception of a veory diml ouItlinlI
of till I>rinlciplos of 1110 ilnguag(e amil
a knowleodge of some14 0f the1( word.
wich~i haIvo stuck, I could not con
strue anl ordiinarly iLtini snlt.onct
Anid you wvill loso y'our Liatin amil
(G rock and MlI't.hemalticn, you w Il l lox,
all that(1 you havio spont,1 theo year,
to acquire, bu1t1 your )ducaltion wvil
niot haivti 1)01n a1 failuroue ihtti
p)rimalry puirposo of e)dution11 is t<
tri1' the roasoinJlig ipoworx, to havw
the mind1( grow from workinig, jux
1as thle mulesCI. The idlon wichO
wishi to impress~ upon1 youl iall-thisx
young mon whot aro gradtualting all
thlose who have not, yet gradtluato<
anid thoxe wvho aret in collego bu
wh1o wvill nover be ill collegeo 18 tha
lt) humanfl ind s11( a81 ve)ry wVond(orful
mah(inelii and( that1 thll hmna 1 s1(1 on
withl wichO it ix interlinked and11 inter
1lac0(, wiiCh i ill) sont-thiat thc twi
must be0 cultivaited and11 grow togethec
if we are to hlave tile highest devol
0)iopmot and t) haivo thait success il
life whiichl it is thlt ambllitionl of over'
righlt thinking young man or old ma1(1
or young womain or old womnan.
W'o come into tilt worldi we knox
not1 whence and1( withlout bcinIg con1
slitedt. WVo sojtourn here for a perio<
moro or lessi brief, within the limnita
1.ion of at conituiry or thloreab)out, thi
average much lesx thlan sovont;
yearx, (and1 wo go out of it wit.houl
bleig consutlitOd. Noblody asks ul
when we aIro ready, nlobody inquire
as8 to whether wo aIre fit to go, wheOthe
wo haivo madoltl tile uxes of our live
that are of greatest promise. And a
I said, the intellctuanl growth an
decvelopmenlt wichio d:ifferent into u1
from the brute, can1 not be followe
withl aniy success1 unlesa thle morn
facrlties shall1 al1so receiveo ultivi
tion1.
Now thnn wit.h 1110 meaiity
tto youth which has boon cultIvated,
and in this atlinosplero I know the
I'loralr also have been carefully
r watched and guarded, what promiso
havo you for uso5rulnes8 in lifo ? Very
great. You aro botter equi))od than
thoso who dto not havo college train
mng. There is no use to deny that
kiowlodgo is not. ia great thing to
possess. Kntowlodge is power.
Knowledgooftho right kind is money,
is woalth. But knowledge alone does
not givo happiness. KnowledgO
alone, howovor great, is not tho higl
otit ambition that we should1 follow.
Moro knowledge without common
senso is tho--o1i, is I pitiful Oxhihi
tion to h1avo a man chock full, brim
miing over with kuowlodge of books
and things that ho has road and no.
fuir(d, and who ha11snl't sense enloligh
to got out. of a shower of rain. That
in inlvolved( inl this question of mnelital
training, the cultivation of the ju(dg.
mont. I (o not know whether it caln be
Cultivated or not. I. believo that I
amd almost right when I assort that,
unlossi a 1111111 inherits Comm11Uo1 sonso,
ho hover has it an(1 eanunot acquiro
it. I do not want to givo you any
taffy (t.hey say I sometims (1111 il
it ) but I will say thisi, that the ancos
tors of most of you, those phlognatic
1)utcmlnon who smoko their pipes and
drink theoir boor, have boon notod as
far black as I have road anything
about it, for thir hard horso snseo,
and 1 (10 not think that, tho pooll0 of
Newborry and the surrounding
country who are their kindred aro
lacking in that esseltial to good
citizelnship, progress, good governl
1nwnl, patriotismlt. The judgment
can ho strengthoned, just a little
weakly child can be Ianght to waltk.
Aid the human mind can ho strongtht
oIodl in its most essential feature of
good judgmont., by timely admoni
tion.
Advice is a thing 8o plentiful, uni
vorsally )oe0sld by everybody,
wimo, or otherwiso, and ready to be
oilerod at anytimo, that I trust you
will boar with me while I offor a few
chunks of it. And I am going to
talk to the graduates principally,
They have ceatod their college life
and are coin111(51cing the other lifo.
Conlnloncoenont this is called, and
why ? College has just closed for
the your. It iomeis to be rather a
contradiction in terms unless you
take it to moan only the graduating
class. Oh, how their hearts l)oat
an<i thilll wlhenl they say, I am i
man. Let 1)0 say to you, young
man, you do not, know what is ahead
of you. I sympathize with you. T
have bo0n all iilong that road, and
looking back fromii my fifty three years
(lown the vista of struggle through
which I haevo pamwt,d,' I 11y it from
tho bottom of iy heart, to those
youlth who put oil their chiildish
things 1111(1 m)1lt, on the toga of man
hood and g,(o forth tomorrow,
you are to he pitiod. Thoso of
us who im(+ the harness of life
(31n us and who have fought and
ro'ched the point whore we are
tonright., will understand me nd
know thait what, I say is true. You,
younig men01, who aro just ontering on
Iyour couirse wVith hoarts flush1ed( with
tihe victory won in your collegiate
I strulgglos, with your miin1ds imbued
with high thoughts and noble aspi
1 rations, with the feeling that the
I world is mino11, is mine oyster wich
4 1 with swvord or with p)on wvill open,
soo( dIownI that line ai struggling ma1ss5
who halve to b)ucklo to and1( work,
I work, wvork, if theoy are to accomjphli
I aniythiing. Tlhoy ll work, aund manny
of thorn without, compensation aibove
I a subsistence. And rmuch of it to result
I in failure, much of it to be as Sodomn
a) ples, turning to aRshs onl their lipsl,
I hocanso again staatistics come in to
prove thalt of th3 human race out of
1 01n0 hIundlred, ton succeed. Ninety
struggle along through tbe mire of
I mediocrity, somie of thorn drop lowv
I or into the mire. Uut tell wVin then
1 pizos.0 which we strgglo for in this
lit tle blattle of life, ninety fall by thle
L wayside or only go through with
1 comparative failure.
1 But what are the prizes worth
living for? Whiat are tile bobbles
> whlich we set lip and die to get,
elighting like demons? The one
- which is the supreme prize, which
all mon want is money, wealth and
in thlis daIy of our country>s history
w1 witnes a condlition in which
mammon worshuip is supreme. The
doctrine of old Hiuldibras, what is
the wvorth of anything but the money
1 it will bring, is abroad in tile land,
-pulsating every hamlet, invading
I our poeaceful Soulthland hero, invit
r' inIg us to repudiate the principles of
t our ancestors as far back as we knowv
I any thing about them.
I Dut I am not going into p)olitics. I
r said that the one thing which most set
si out to do is to get money, that other.
a wise they will be considered fail.
1i uros. - How much of this is true?
a What is that iden worth ? Money is
1 'i good thing to have if it is properly
,1 used(. The warnt of money is a men
strous inconvenient thing. But I
say for tl-ose in this audience who
f have not sunccoeded in getting money,