Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1878-07-18
~ oris Of wisdom.

. Gov. Colquitt, of Georgia. in his
address before the students of
Trinity College, n c., spoke id
part as follows
s'My yoang friends, there is such a
thing as truth unmixet,, absolute, su-,
perlative. To-day, at the outset OF
life, ] tell sor! phatically and
without qualification, that to him who
means well, who with his light es-
chews wrong and vice, who sets HP
for his guidance and ineSorably adj
heres to the golden rule, there is not:
will not be, cannot by any such thing
as failure and disappointment. Ma
terial things may fail, alb ! will fail /;
the pride Of intellect will surely meet
humiliation, honors and acclamations
may become of all things the, most
vapid, and miscalculations and mis-
judgments will beStrew the melan-
cholF pilgrimage of our lives but of
one thing tie entire universe Of God
may rest assured, and that is that
Virtue is its own exceeding great
reward" and Omnipotence is pledged
to justify the practice of it. In no
other department Of life, ii no other
field Of endeavor could dare to pro.
mise safety and happiness. Efter the
very best that many OF you may do,
your plans Of life may he Defeated
Strive as you may, honor and riches
NAY clude your grasp. With the purest
intentions and loltiest desires to lie of
service, at last you may have to say, II
have failed, and ray name is written
in the water" Thousands before
YOU have been overlooked, been mis-
! judged, and passed by; but never
yet since human probation began,
never since conscience commenced
its reign, has there been one instance
! in which a pure conscience has suf-
fercd shipwrcck and been forced to
exclaim, ''All is Vanity"
Let us apply the correlated truth:
1t is this Material good, triumph
over outside opposition and obsta-
cles /: in short, what is called world
ly success cannot in any large de-
gree constitute the happiness Of
men OF nations. III -g8tten power
or wealth must at last pass through
the toll ,gato of retribution, and
how often is the eGaction the bit
teruess of death. True it is that
we are 'of the earth, earthly" but
Heaven demands that the immortal
and spiritual element shall never
we subordinated to the sensual,
which seeks its fruition in the things
that perish.
All systems OF education, then,
all arms of polity, all religions, all
, domestic training that does not
place the moral life above the ma
terial or intellectual must end ir
disaster. -
The man who wishes well either
to his people or his race would far
prefer to see men good rather than
learned, or behold the prevalence
OF Virtuous habits than any amount
of power or wealth. These are
trite, if not threadbare reflections
: and yet how true is it that the re-
fractory pride Of mans jhtellec'
, makes eternal repetition Of them
: necessary. Alta lines and every
where presumptuous man has fell
: himself able to criticise and reform
5 the conditions of human existence
f as God has decreed them. Bu
f mankind retires from every sucl
, collision with Providence worstet
; and sorrowful. No, we tnust &C
, cept the rule as God has declared
, it for the government Of the world
> first the Kingdom Of Heaven, ant
, then all else that is good.
i Witkodt virtue the indi7idua
: fails, the nation is wrecked. Lie
J: education mako a note OF this, all,
: let tie statesman who persists II
p doubts, calculate closely how mucl
of treasure and glorious opportuni
ty NAV still be wasted in the futil
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